{"id":7886,"date":"2012-06-05T11:32:15","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T17:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=7886"},"modified":"2012-06-05T11:32:15","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T17:32:15","slug":"fair-pay-bill-may-not-fare-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/06\/05\/fair-pay-bill-may-not-fare-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Fair Pay Bill May Not Fare Well"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Paul J. Richards \/ AFP\/Getty Images<\/p>

Women in Idaho earn about 74 percent as much as men, according to the most recent Census figures.<\/p><\/div>\n

The U.S. Senate is slated to vote on an equal pay bill today.\u00a0 As The Boston Globe<\/em> explains<\/a>, the Paycheck Fairness Act would address the persistent wage gap between men and women by “requiring employers of companies with pay discrepancies to provide a reason for the gap.”\u00a0 Moreover, it would “bar employers from retaliating against employees who discuss pay.”<\/p>\n

As we’ve noted a few tim<\/a>es<\/a> here on the StateImpact<\/em> site, the disparity between men’s and women’s wages is especially great in Idaho.\u00a0 Boise’s pay gap<\/a> was named eighth worst in the country earlier this year, in a ranking based on U.S. Census data.<\/p>\n

The Paycheck Fairness Act isn’t expected to pass.\u00a0 In an article<\/a> titled “Paycheck Fairness Act expected to fail” The Washington Post<\/em> said of the bill: “[A]t its core it is not so much a legislative vehicle as a political one intended to embarrass Republicans and help President Obama and congressional Democrats with female voters in November.”<\/p>\n

According to The Hill<\/em>, Sen. Dean Heller (R-Nev.) introduced an alternative measure<\/a> this morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The U.S. Senate is slated to vote on an equal pay bill today.\u00a0 As The Boston Globe explains, the Paycheck Fairness Act would address the persistent wage gap between men and women by “requiring employers of companies with pay discrepancies to provide a reason for the gap.”\u00a0 Moreover, it would “bar employers from retaliating against […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":6461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[233,143],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7886"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}