Being Amber Rhea

links for 2009-01-10

• Fair Pay Act May Make Comeback « The Czech
  "But Goodyear decided to maintain its discriminatory pay for 20 years and then defended that discrimination in court. And won. In front of 9 judges, 8 of whom were men. The single female judge, Ginsberg dissented.

  The 5 male judges who made up the majority insisted in their opinion that it was necessary to deny Ledbetter’s claim. Why? To protect employers who choose to discriminate against workers based on sex, race or other factors, and then manage to hide that until the 180 days have passed.

  Unassailable logic.

  Because if you count each smaller paycheck as an instance of discrimination, instead of the single decision years in the past to start paying women (or Mexicans, or gays, whoever) less, then, well, the proles who got discriminated against are going to start getting ideas! Like that discrimination is wrong, that companies profit off it, and that they should get paid back!

  Silly proletariat."

  (tags: politics feminism sexism money pay fairpayact judicialsystem)
• Kicking Down the Door (The Sex Workers Project)
  Report from The Sex Workers Project on the use of raids to fight trafficking in persons.
  (tags: law report trafficking sexwork policy)
• 5 Time management tricks I learned from years of hating Tim Ferriss | Brazen Careerist by Penelope Trunk
  Have I mentioned I heart Penelope Trunk?
  (tags: productivity work blogs b relationships entrepreneurship lifehacks)

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