(2014/05/13) Work is work is work (Wage and Respect Gap)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 13 May 2014
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Edition #826
Work is work is work
Today we take a delightfully nuanced look at the causes of the gender pay gap and then likely make a lot of people uncomfortable with the idea that sex work isn't inherently evil
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Equal Pay Day: How Obama Is Helping Close the Pay Gap - @majorityfm - Air Date: 04-09-14
Ch. 3: Song 1: New slang - The Shins
Ch. 4: Act 2: Differentials In Pay Between Women And Men (Part 1) - @WEEKinBLACKNESS - Air Date 4-8-14
Ch. 5: Song 2: Ode to my family - The Cranberries
Ch. 6: Act 3: Politician: Women Don't Deserve Equal Pay Because WHAT?! - @davidpakmanshow - Air Date: 05-02-14
Ch. 7: Song 3: Coal miner's daughter - Loretta Lynn
Ch. 8: Act 4: Differentials In Pay Between Women And Men (Part 2) - @WEEKinBLACKNESS - Air Date 4-8-14
Ch. 9: Song 4: The upturned nose of Count Buffon - Black Prairie
Ch. 10: Act 5: Fox Is Just Asking: "Are Female Breadwinners A Problem?" - Media Matters Minute (@mmfa) - Air Date: 05-05-14
Ch. 11: Song 5: The upturned nose of Count Buffon - Black Prairie
Ch. 12: Act 6: Playing The Whore, The Work Of Sex Work - @radio_dispatch - Air Date: 3-5-14
Ch. 13: Song 6: There she goes - Sixpence null The Richer
Ch. 14: Act 7: Prostitution Restrictions Removed by Canada Supreme Court - @davidpakmanshow - Air Date: 12-28-13
Ch. 15: Song 7: Today has been okay - Emiliana Torrini
Ch. 16: Act 8: The Sex Workers Project via @UJCSexWorkers - Best of the Left Activism
Ch. 17: Song 8: Activism - Shihan
Ch. 18: Act 9: Influence Of Internet On Sex Workers - @fakedansavage - Air Date 7-30-13
Voicemails:
Ch. 19: Surprised at lack of animal agriculture in climate episode - Jim from Washington State
Ch. 20: Government should get out of the marriage business - Nathan from Boca Raton, FL
Ch. 21: Thanks for campaign finance reform episode - Paula from California
Leave a message at 202-999-3991
Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 22: Final comments on how to share the show and it's segments
Closing Music:
Here We Are - Patrick Park
ACTIVISM:
No Condoms as Evidence
emPOWER - a Celebration of the Sex Workers Project, June 5th, NYC
Additional Activism
Follow #NotYourRescueProject
The Best Practices Police Project (BPPP): Take Action and Volunteer
Sources/further reading:
”Playing the Whore” by Melissa Gira Grant
"Fighting sex trafficking with Jesus: How the religious right’s 'healing' hurts” by Melissa Gira Grant
"Sex worker activist convicted for crime of 'walking while trans’” via Feministing
”Sex Workers: We’re not a rescue project, not trafficking victims” by Andrea Garcia-Vargas
Listen: Red Umbrella Diaries podcast from Red Umbrella Project
"How a controversial Ariz. program tries to keep sex workers out of jail” by Sarah Hoye
"NYPD to Stop Seizing Sex Work Suspects’ Condoms”
Written by BOTL social media/activism director Katie Klabusich
Produced by:
Jay! Tomlinson
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| 0:13.9 | Now, welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left podcast with clips today from the majority |
| 0:17.7 | report. This week in Blackness, the David Pakman show, the Medium Adder's Minute, Radio Dispatch, |
| 0:22.8 | Activism from Best of the Left and Dan Savage. |
| 0:29.9 | It is equal payday and the president is expected to sign two executive orders, |
| 0:36.0 | which are going to address at least some small element of the pay disparity between men and women. |
| 0:46.0 | One is going to bar federal contractors from retaliating against employees who talk about |
| 0:50.5 | what they're paying with each other. The others are going to require businesses to provide data on |
| 0:56.8 | pay, broken down by race and gender to the labor department. Essentially, these are going to provide |
| 1:03.3 | transparency both within businesses and within the economy as to what the status is of women |
| 1:13.3 | and women, uh, pay scale versus men. You'll recall that the first bill that President Obama |
| 1:19.8 | signed was the Lilly Ledbetter Act. And this emanated from a case pursued by Lilly Ledbetter, |
| 1:30.4 | who was working at good year. And she didn't find out that she was getting paid substantially less |
| 1:38.5 | for the same job as a male counterpart for 19 years until 19 years after she had started a good year. |
| 1:47.4 | She found this out via an anonymous note. She sued good year for back wages. |
| 1:55.0 | And the Supreme Court determined that the statute of limitations started from the moment |
| 2:01.4 | that she was paid an unequal amount, not from the moment that she learned about the disparity. |
| 2:09.6 | Statue of limitations had expired by the time she found out she was not eligible. |
| 2:16.9 | Did not have standing in this case. The Lilly Ledbetter Act |
| 2:22.4 | simply gave standing, wearing |
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