{"id":6294,"date":"2012-07-18T05:54:20","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T09:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=6294"},"modified":"2012-07-18T05:54:23","modified_gmt":"2012-07-18T09:54:23","slug":"morning-read-when-the-glass-ceiling-wasnt-even-made-of-glass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2012\/07\/18\/morning-read-when-the-glass-ceiling-wasnt-even-made-of-glass\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read: When the glass ceiling wasn’t even made of glass"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lilly Ledbetter has become a symbol of the equal pay movement in the US. (Photo: Wikipedia)<\/p><\/div>\n

It’s sort of weird, right, that in the year 2012 equal pay for women has become a campaign issue in the presidential race?<\/p>\n

But the facts remain the facts:\u00a0 In modern America, women are still paid roughly eighty cents for every dollar paid to men in comparable positions.<\/p>\n

The Democratic and Republican parties are feuding<\/a> over what that means and how to deal with it, not least because women have emerged as one of the defining voter blocs in national politics.<\/p>\n

This week the Plattsburgh Press Republican<\/a> offered some context for this discussion, recalling that just 25 years ago women weren’t even allowed into Rotary, one of the country’s most influential civic and business organizations.<\/p>\n

We asked Rotarians from time to time in the \u201880s why women hadn\u2019t been welcomed into the club, and a couple of older members said then that admitting women would douse the exchange of off-color humor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In their editorial, the Press-Republican noted that a quarter century ago, women comprised some of the city’s most prominent business and civic leaders – and yet they were excluded.<\/p>\n

That’s not a glass ceiling.\u00a0 That’s just good old fashioned discrimination.<\/p>\n

“Restricting who can join based on superficial criteria is anti-American and just plain bad business,” the article concludes.\u00a0 “Every organization should want the best \u2014 not just half of the best.”<\/p>\n

I wonder if someday soon we’ll look back on the equal pay issue in a similar light.\u00a0 Is it good business to pay an equally talented worker a fifth less than her male counterpart?<\/p>\n

As always, comments welcome.<\/p>\n

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