Who needs Fair Pay?
Monday, April 28th, 2008 Last week, Senate Republicans blocked a bill that would have enabled women to more effectively sue employers over gender based wage discrimination. The bill was intended to overturn the Supreme Court’s 2007 ruling in Ledbetter v. Goodyear , which limited the ability of workers to seek legal recourse under Title VII by enforcing a statute of limitations of 180 days from the first instance of wage discrimination (despite the fact that this type of discrimination is often as subtle as it is insidious and therefore can take much longer to uncover). John McCain was absent on voting day, but made clear through comments that he opposed the bill. Times op-ed columnist Gail Collins had this to say about the bill, the vote, and the absent McCain’s stance in the debate: