I don't understand women voting against women

By Faith Chatham April 9, 2015
I think women should help women. I don't advocate voting only on gender. But I simply don't comprehend how a woman justifies voting AGAINST her own best interest!

We must hold women who WE ELECT TO OFFICE Accountable when they vote to the detriment of women and girls!  Just electing someone who wears high heels and a skirt to office, does not further the cause!

We need to elect women to office who will "carry the water" necessary to enable other women and girls have equity in the workplace, access to healthcare, fair trade practices and other issues important to women which the majority of male elected officials ignore or vote against.

If women officials refuse to fight for women, why elect them?
We must hold women accountable.
If no woman runs against a female incumbent who turns her back on other women, then we should support a man if he will support policies which help women.

Just who wears the stockings is not sufficient to decide how to further our causes.

Why am I writing this?

Last April EVERY Republican in the U.S. House and every Republican in the U.S. Senate voted against the Pay Day Fairness ACT. Congresswomen and Female Senators voted for policies which discriminate against your daughters, your nieces, your girl-friends, your sister, your mother and you. We continue seeing women who have succeeded in being elected to public office go with the boy and not break party rank. 

POLITICAL PARTY should not be the trump card, gals!

I truly am convinced that WISE WOMEN WILL NOT CONTINUE WAITING.

2016 must be our year.

We must work to get strong women elected to office

and we must hold those we elect to office

ACCOUNTIABLE!

 Voting party lines and supporting policies which discriminate against your daughter, your niece, your girl-friends, your sister, your mother and yourself is beyond the pale of stupidity. Yet we continue to see women who have succeeded in being elected to public office go with the boys and not break rank

Our support is not a free ride.

Going with the boys to the detriment

of Women MUST TRIGGER CONSEQUENCES!

Being doormats for men is bad.

Being doormats for other women is plain STUPID!

 

I'd like to say that the women who voted against it were stupid, but that wouldn't be true. It takes a lot of ingenuity to success in winning a seat in Congress. Donors money helps but financing alone does not win seats for the exceptionally stupid-- especially not for women.    Granted there female Congressional incumbents whose world view are so limited that I find their words offensive, yet they were skilled in using the very beliefs which repel me to attract voters who feed off of venom.

We need to send a clear message to ALL

ELECTED OFFICIALS:

VOTE AGAINS WOMEN

AND WOMEN VOTE AGAINST YOU!

 

I'm going to start by designing a series of wearable apparel which sends a message to incumbents and to candidates who seek the support of women. We'll be less silent. We'll be more visible. We'll be very clear on what we expect and what we require.  Let's go for SOLIDARITY.

Women have varied opinions about lots of things and that is o.k. None of us can speak for all women. But surely we can agree that NO WOMAN SHOULD BE PAID LESS than a man with the same education and experience who is doing the same job!

 

 

Also, no one should be fired because they find out what others make and /or because they disclose what they make. Americans deserve to know whether they are being treated fairly by their employers and whether their pay scale is in line with their local job market.

PAY DAY FAIRNESS PROMOTES THE RIGHTS OF ALL WORKERS -- men, women, everyone!

It shouldn't be a partisan issue. It is time that those who made it partisan are made to BEAR THE CONSEQUENCES.

Here is my contribution to the cause.  This navy blue Same Work Less Pay Sucks is available in tank top, tee top, v neck tee top, and in short and long sleeves priced from $18 to $20.

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77 cents on the dollar? It’s even lower if you have a Master’s

By Erin Delmore - MSNBC - Jan. 13, 2014 Read more at http://on.msnbc.com/1hkNAef

For the nearly fifty million Americans living below the poverty line and the more than hundred thousand teetering on the brink, education can be a lifeline to a better future. According to a survey conducted among low-income women for this year’s “Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Pushes Back from the Brink,” three out of four of the women surveyed wished they had put more of a priority on their education and career. Just 58% of Americans among all income levels agreed.

Yet a half a century after President John F. Kennedy signed legislation making gender-based waged disparity illegal, women are still earning less than men who hold the same job. After decades of movement toward parity, the average female-to-male earnings ratio has flatlined at a rate of 77 cents to the dollar. It remains virtually unchanged since 2001.

But a deeper look into the data reveals that women of all education levels – even women who hold bachelor’s and master’s degrees—are plagued by a persistent wage gap.  According to a study by the American Association of University Women, women who are one year out of college earn 7% less than their male counterparts, even when they earned the same degree, at the same kind of school, and are doing the same job for the same number of hours per week. 

The wage gap widens with higher educational attainment: Women who hold a graduate or professional degree earn on average 75.6 cents on each dollar earned by a man with the same level of education in the same position. For women with a college degree, that number ticks up slightly to 79.5 cents on the dollar– virtually in lockstep with women who haven’t earned a high school diploma.

“Overall, a woman with a college degree doing the same work as a man will earn hundreds of thousands of dollars less over the course of her career,” President Obama said at a White House Forum on Women and the Economy in April 2012. “Closing this pay gap—ending this pay discrimination—is about far more than simple fairness, it’s about strengthening families, communities and our entire economy,” he wrote in an op-ed a few days later. 

According to the Center for Women’s Policy Research, the U.S. economy could produce $447.6 billion in additional income if women were paid an equivalent wage to that of their male counterparts. That’s greater than the GDP of the state of Virginia.