By
Claire O'Brien, Washington Legislative Office &
Claire O'Brien, Washington Legislative Office at 1:46pm
Well I guess this means the battle’s won, right? According to an article in yesterday’s Washington Post:
The number of women with six-figure incomes is rising at a much faster pace than it is for men. Nationwide, about one in 18 women working full time earned $100,000 or more in 2009, a jump of 14 percent over two years, according to new census figures. In contrast, one in seven men made that much, up just 4 percent. The legions of higher-income women have grown even faster in the Washington region, further burnishing its reputation as a land of opportunity for ambitious professional women.
Whew! Everyone can go home, now — clearly, the fight for pay equity is over. Good job, everyone, it was a fight well-fought.
Imagine fleeing for your life to escape persecution and civil war, and arriving in what you believe to be the safe harbor of the United States. Imagine a judge granting you asylum to stay in the United States, but then the U.S. government refuses to let you in because they say that when you were kidnapped at gunpoint by rebel forces in your homeland, and held captive in a training camp, you provided "material support" to the terrorist organization that imprisoned you. Instead of finding refuge and a new life in America, you're then locked up in an immigration jail for nearly two years.