Three men (Luxon, Peters, Seymour) aren't willing for men's pay to be hobbled to pay for their landlord tax cuts & wider useless tax cuts - but it's ok apparently for the lowest paid women in the country to be burdened with their wrongful largesse.

This is deep inequity and institutionalised misogyny. It's rolling back all the progress made on equal pay, consigning women to indentured second classism.

Women and allies must literally make this government pay at election 2026. #NZpol #equalpay

"Equal pay for women."

I can't believe our little country has regressed this far under the Luxon coalition. To some extent you expect ACT's racism, NZF's anti-science backwards thinking, even National's plundering of public services with a 'Reverse Robin Hood' approach to wealth redistribution.

But denying pay equity to women? That's a new low.

Africa: Why Are Women Paid Less Than Men?: [The Conversation Africa] Why do women earn less than men? The usual suspects - occupation, hours, experience - explain some of it. But a powerful, often overlooked reason is simply this: where women work. The companies that hire them play a huge role in shaping their lifetime earnings. http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TKTcJM #GenderEquality #WomenInWork #PayGap #EqualPay #WomenEmpowerment

https://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/deutsche-unternehmen-trump-dei-diversity-anti-diversitaets-kampagne-wokeness-aldi-bayer-deutsche-bank-sap-li.3229067 Dass das mal klar ist, wenn deutsche Unternehmen der Meinung sind, mit stumpfen Buckeln auf wirre US Gesellschaftsmodelle kann so mir nichts Dir nichts gespielt werden und eigene Regeln, Unternehmenswerte u. Deutsche wie Europäische Wertesysteme u.a. zu #Diversität #gesxhlechterneutralität #equalpay #sustainability etc. seien nichts wert, der irrt. Wer es wagt, wird boykottiert von mir u. hoffentlich vielen anderen Konsumenten

I just watched this gem https://iview.abc.net.au/show/made-in-dagenham & absolutely loved it. I knew nothing of this massive watershed moment til now, but expect that women 5 or 10+ years older than i might remember it from their younger days. Anyway, IMO this dramatisation / recreation of it is fabulous, & was accompanied by copious gasps from me at the breathtaking #patriarchy, #MaleEntitlement, #sexism & #misogyny, then whoops & roarrrrrrs at each brilliant thing the women achieved. Sensational.

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/03/25/equal-pay-day-highlights-stalled-progress-on-closing-gender-pay-gap.html

Equal Pay Day highlights stalled pay gap progress: 'Women are never, ever going to catch up,' researcher says

Today in Labor History March 22, 1972: U.S. Congress sent the Equal Rights Amendment to the states for ratification. It failed. And to this day, women earn 84% of what men do. One of the exceptions is public education, where teachers’ unions have fought and won the right to collectively bargain salaries based on years of experience, not gender. The first ERA was introduced to Congress in 1923. The 1972 had wide bipartisan support, including by presidents Nixon, Ford and Carter, and seemed destined to pass. However, Phyllis Schlafly mobilized conservative women against the amendment, arguing that it would disadvantage housewives, make them eligible for the draft and cause divorcees to lose custody of their children. This killed the ERA in the 1970s. From 2017-2020, several states have ratified the ERA. However, it is uncertain whether these ratifications are legal, since they occurred after the deadlines. Schlafly went on to become a major player in the anti-abortion and anti-feminist and anti-LGBTQ rights movements.

#BBCNews - BBC presenters settle sex and age discrimination dispute
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c80y1j4r8yeo
#EqualPay

Today in Labor History March 13, 1979: The Marxist New Jewel movement, led by Maurice Bishop, overthrew the prime minister of Grenada. Bishop led the People’s Revolutionary Government of Grenada until 1983, when he was overthrown and executed in a coup supported by the U.S. Bishop supported anti-racist struggles around the world and the fight to end Apartheid. Under his leadership, Granada gave women equal pay to men and provided paid maternity leave. They also banned sexual discrimination and introduced free public health and literacy programs that brought the national illiteracy rate from 35% down to 5%. In 1983, the U.S. invaded Granada. 19 U.S. soldiers and 45 Grenadian soldiers died in the fighting that ensued. The invasion effectively ended the so-called “Vietnam Syndrome,” where U.S. leaders feared that overt regime change, with U.S. boots on the ground, would spark large antiwar protests, like those that rocked the nation in the 1960s and early 70s. The Grenada invasion paved the way for much more aggressive interventions like Panama, Iraq, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria.

Tarifverträge bieten den Beschäftigte viele Vorteile - bessere Arbeitszeiten, Sonderzahlungen, höhere Löhne, Zuschläge etc.

Und auch beim Thema #Gleichstellung sind sie von enormer Bedeutung: Sowohl im verarbeitenden Gewerbe als auch im Dienstleistungsektor fällt der #GenderPayGap in tarifgebundenen Betrieben deutlich kleiner aus als in Betrieben ohne #Tarifvertrag.

Die Stärkung der #Tarifbindung gehört deshalb ganz oben auf die politische Agenda.

In einem schwierigen Marktumfeld hatte meine Freundin, soloselbständig und alleinerziehende Mutter, ein äußerst knapp kalkuliertes Angebot abgegeben.
Am #EqualPay Day bekam sie eine Absage.
Der öffentliche Auftraggeber hat den Auftrag an eine kinderlose und gelangweilte Managergattin vergeben, die keinerlei Kostendeckung erreichen muss.
Genau mein Humor.

Tolle Aktionen zum #weltfrauentag

Heute vormittag war ich mit vielen tollen Frauen vom OV Crailsheim zum Weltfrauentag auf dem Markt in #crailsheim unterwegs

Und abends waren wir vom OV Region Kirchberg im Kino Klappe beim Preview von „Ich will alles - Hildegard Knefs“

Es gibt noch viel für die Gleichberechtigung von Frauen zu tun - packen wir’s jeden Tag aufs Neue an

Today in Labor History March 8, 1911: The first modern International Women’s Day was celebrated in Austria, Denmark, Switzerland, Germany and the U.S. IWD has its roots in the suffrage movement of New Zealand, and leftist labor organizing in the U.S. and Europe. The earliest Women’s Days were organized by the Socialist Party of America, in New York, in 1909, and by German socialists in 1910. They chose the date of March 8 in honor of the garment workers strikes in New York that occurred on March 8, in 1857 and 1908. However, the first IWD celebrated on March 8, the current date, was in 1911. The holiday was associated primarily with far-left movements until the feminist movement adopted it in the 1960s, when it became a more mainstream celebration.

Today in Labor History March 8, 1908: Thousands of workers in the New York needle trades (mostly women) launched a strike for higher wages, shorter hours and an end to child labor. They chose this date in commemoration of the 1857 strike. In 1910, German socialist Clara Zetkin proposed to the Second International, that March 8 be celebrated as International Women’s Day to commemorate this strike and the one in 1857.

Today in Labor History March 8, 1857: Women garment workers picketed in New York City, demanding a 10-hour workday, better working conditions, and equal rights for women. In 1910, German socialist Clara Zetkin proposed to the Second International, that March 8 be celebrated as International Women’s Day to commemorate this strike.

#stattBlumen #Reminder #BAG #EqualPay

Zum Frauentag hab ich für Euch noch mal in meiner Schatzkiste gekramt und was glitzerndes gefunden! Was mit goldener Robe!

Susette Jörk, Femininja, Erstreiterin des Equal-Pay-Urteils.

Episode 120

#Lauschbefehl
https://podcastindex.org/podcast/2015468?episode=25286738551

Weltfrauentag

Am #weltfrauentag geht es nicht um Blumen sondern um Veränderung!

Lasst uns für eine Welt kämpfen, in der jede Frau ihre Träume leben kann

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