Right As Republicans Vote Against Equal Pay, New Evidence Reaffirms the Gender Wage Gap

Last night, only a week after the Republican National Committee claimed that all Republicans support an equal wage, Senate Republicans unanimously voted to block the Paycheck Fairness Act. The bill, which failed to advance despite achieving a majority of 52 votes in favor, would ban salary secrecy and tighten rules to try to narrow the persisting wage gap between men and women.

This isn’t the first time that the GOP has blocked bills that require equal pay for equal work over the years. They usually claim that the gap isn’t as large as stated and that provisions are already in place to protect women workers. But we know those claims to be untrue: the gender wage gap can’t just be explained away and discrimination against women is likely at least partly to blame.

What’s more, this morning the Census Bureau released new numbers on the earnings of men and women that proves that the GOP’s position on equal pay remains out of touch. In 2013, according to the Census, the average woman who works full time makes 78 cents to every man’s dollar, just a single penny improvement from the 77 cent wage gap in 2012. As the chart below depicts, in 2013 median earnings for men were $50,000 while median earnings for women hovered at just $39,200.

CREDIT: Census Bureau

We already know that the claim that the gender wage gap is a myth is a myth itself. The new evidence shows that the problem isn’t getting any better — in fact, for the last decade, there has been little progress on closing the wage gap. The Paycheck Fairness Act is one of many policies that would help address this gap, and more broadly help increase economic opportunity for women and families.

BOTTOM LINE: With their latest vote to block equal pay for equal work, Senate Republicans continue to ignore the facts about the gender pay gap and continue to reject policies that would help women and families succeed. New data from the Census Bureau released today proves that point by showing the wage gap hasn’t budged. If conservatives really supported women, they would stop paying lip service to women on the one hand, and voting against policies to help women and families on the other

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We need you to take action now to protect one of the most important rainforests on Earth.

This week, the threats that Conflict Palm Oil poses to the Leuser Ecosystem were exposed by HBO’s documentary series Vice. With more awareness of this potential catastrophe than ever before, now we must stop the bulldozers destroying this priceless ecosystem in their tracks.

Will you raise your voice today to stop the bulldozers that are destroying the rainforests and peatlands of the Leuser Ecosystem?

The Leuser Ecosystem is an expanse of critically intact tropical lowland rainforests, cloud draped mountains and steamy peatlands. It is among the most biodiverse and ancient ecosystems ever documented by science, and it is the last place on Earth where Sumatran orangutans, elephants, tigers, rhinos and sun bears still roam side by side.

A moratorium is urgently needed to halt the destruction of rainforests and peatlands for palm oil expansion in this global biodiversity hotspot.

The Leuser Ecosystem exists at a tenuous crossroads. Palm oil plantations threaten its lowland rainforests and peatlands, as well as the continued wellbeing of the millions of Acehnese people who depend on it for their food, water and livelihoods.

We must convince three big buyers of palm oil to break any ties to companies that continue to expand and destroy rainforests and peatlands in the Leuser Ecosystem. The palm oil traders most at risk of trafficking Conflict Palm Oil sourced from the Leuser Ecosystem — Musim Mas Group, Wilmar International and Golden Agri-Resources — must take immediate action.

These three traders supply palm oil to the Snack Food 20, placing us at risk of Conflict Palm Oil making its way into our homes. Six months ago we exposed the risks in these companies’ supply chain. These companies have all adopted leading commitments and are starting to take action. But the threat to the Leuser is immediate, and the consequences would be devastating and irreversible: we simply can not afford to delay driving real change on the ground in the Leuser Ecosystem.

Call on these three palm oil traders to enforce an immediate moratorium on the clearance of rainforests and peatlands in the Leuser Ecosystem today.

With your help we will protect this global treasure for generations to come.