Somehow, in the year 2012, there are still women across New York who earn less than men do for the same work. It's sad. It's wrong. And it's time for every one of us to stop looking the other way and to start doing something about it.
Earlier this week, I joined several female community leaders from southern Brooklyn to demand that the State Senate adopt the New York State Fair Pay Act, an "equal pay for equal work" bill that has repeatedly been passed by the State Assembly.
Fair pay has been a recurring theme in my campaign because it's so long overdue. Sadly, Marty Golden doesn't think so. In 2011, he voted against equal pay for female state employees, saying simply that it was too expensive to adopt. It has since been reintroduced into the Civil Service and Pensions committee, which Senator Golden chairs, but has been stalled there ever since. If Senator Golden and his buddies in Albany were truly representing their constituents, they would not only have voted for the bill, but would be leading the charge to see it pass!
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