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Just in time for Mother's Day, Senator John McCain opposed the Fair Pay Act - a bill that would help guarantee women equal pay for equal work. The bill simply would have restored critical anti-discrimination rules that the Supreme Court struck down in a recent decision, and failed by just three votes.

Adding insult to injury, McCain said that the solution to employment discrimination was for women to get more "education and training." Yikes!! Maybe that made some sense in his day, but today with women outnumbering men on college campuses, it makes none. Study after study has shown that women are paid less than men for the same work, even when they have the same education and training.....  Senator McCain and his Republican allies have chosen to stand in the way of enforcement of a law that's been on the books protecting women for 40 years. Call on Senator McCain and Congress to pass the Fair Pay Act now. Go to: http://pol.moveon.org/fairpay/?id=12626-9252112-FqZmHY
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If you're as incensed as many are by his statements that women are somehow poorly educated and trained you can do one more thing: Submit your resume when you sign the letter and it'll be delivered too, so Mr. McCain can see for himself that women are actually quite educated nowadays.

* Women make less for the same work, .77 for every dollar their male counterparts make.

*The pay gap is even worse for Mothers. .73 to a mans dollar and single mothers only about .60 to a mans dollar.

* Wage discrimination cuts across educational levels. Some high school at age 25, womens annual earnings around $15,162 compared to $24,092 for men. Even a Bachelor's Degree didn't help. Women with a Bachelor's degree made around $38,221 per year, while man at the same level made $55,425.

* In some places, the pay gap has actually increased. The GAO found women managers across 10 industries not only made less than their male counterparts, but in seven of those industries the gap increased between 1995 and 2001.

Senator McCain's statements aren't just misinformed - they're a sad reminder that a lot of politicians are totally out of touch with the hard realities facing working women. Please speak out today......

This was reported by the MoveOn.org Political Action Team Friday May 9th.