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The women of the Maine Women’s Lobby reflect on the 124th
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24 Jun 2009Last week, the Village Soup posted an article featuring reflections on the 124th session from capital-area legislators. Their reflections are really interesting – and got me wondering what others thought.
So, I started asking around … and here are some reflections from the women of the Maine Women’s Lobby:
Here’s what Laura had to say:
I feel certain [...]
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- Tags: Civil Rights, Discrimination, Equal Pay, Fair Pay, Gay Marriage, Girls' Day, Girls' Day at the State House, House of Representatives, Laura Harper, LD 1020, Leadership, Maine Women's Lobby, Maine Women's Policy Center, marriage, Marriage Equality, Paid sick days, public hearing, State House, Welfare, women's issues, YouTube
Maine Groups Cheer Sotomayor Nomination
In: Civil Rights| Discrimination| Equal Pay| Maine Women's Lobby| Olympia Snowe| Supreme Court| Susan Collins| Women's Leadership
27 May 2009Maine Fair and Independent Federal Courts Coalition Lauds Historic Nomination
(Augusta) Today in a news release, organizations representing Maine people celebrated the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court.
“In selecting Judge Sotomayor to be his nominee to the highest court, President Obama has chosen someone who is superbly qualified and has outstanding [...]
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- Tags: Discrimination, Equal Justice, Fair Federal Courts, Maine Women's Lobby, SCOTUS, Sotomayor, Supreme Court
Calling on Maine Senators to “Tweak the Bill”
In: Equal Pay| Fair Pay| Labor| Olympia Snowe| Press Link| Susan Collins
1 May 2009Senators Snowe and Collins will have an opportunity to make some changes to the Paycheck Fairness Act which will come before the United States Senate soon. According to an editorial by the Portland Press Herald, the bill could use a little tweaking. They state, “Overall, putting more teeth into requirements that employers pay women fairly [...]
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- Tags: Equal Pay, Fair Pay, Pay Gap, Portland Press Herald
Equal Pay is still Far Away
1 May 2009AAUW posted a round up of all the media covering the 2009 equal pay day. It is really worth checking out!
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- Tags: AAUW, Add new tag, Equal Pay, Fair Pay, Pay Gap
Equal Pay Day Number TWO
In: Equal Pay| Events| Olympia Snowe| Susan Collins| Uncategorized
24 Apr 2009Maine stands out cause we have our OWN Equal Pay Day. By statute – yes the Lobby had a little something to do with this - celebrated each year on the first Tuesday in April.
Now, we get to celebrate again (ok, celebrate is the wrong word, since we’re essentially talking about how long into the 2009 [...]
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- Tags: AAUW, economic security, Equal Pay, equal pay day, pay equity, Pay Gap, Tuesday April 28
Wage Equity Suffers from Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell…
In: Equal Pay| Press Link
24 Feb 2009A bill sponsored by Sen. Deb Simpson, D-Auburn, that would allow employees to ask colleagues how much they earn without fear of retribution from their employer passed unanimously out of the Legislature’s Labor Committee on Monday according to the Sun Journal. The goal of the legislation is to shrink the pay gap between working Maine [...]
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- Tags: Pay Gap, Sun Journal, Wages
LD84 Protects Workers Who Talk Money
In: Equal Pay| Press Link
5 Feb 2009Should employees be allowed to discuss their wages at work? WCSH takes a look…
Will Snowe & Collins Walk the Walk on Wage Gap?
16 Jan 2009In the early part of this decade, Maine lawmakers took action to address the gender wage gap — in which women earned less than men for comparable work — by passing legislation requiring full implementation of Maine’s Equal Pay Law.
But as critical as this law has been, Maine’s wage gap is actually widening. In 2007, [...]
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- Tags: Kennebec Journal, Pay Gap
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- Connie Lewis: BRAVO for this effort re toxins in personal care products (PCPs)! I'm wondering whether you're [...]
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- Rep Butterfield brings the room back to the point of the debate
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