Michael M. Honda Quotes
Equal pay isn't just a women's issue; when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits.
Honda, Michael M. "Equal Pay Day." Congressional Record, vol. 151, Government Printing Office, 19 Apr. 2005.
This is one of the earliest expressions of the now famous phrase.
Although the situation improved over time, all employers do not pay equal wages, although the laws now require equal pay.
The strategy of pushing for equal treatment in Government employment first so as to influence the private employment sector developed by Lockwood was employed almost 80 years later by American Blacks in the Civil Rights movement.
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Many of the most liberated and accomplished women in history have been from wealthy families. And yet with all their money they could only go so far. They needed an entire movement of women of all classes—and men to finally attain suffrage and the progress made thus far. Wealthy women were very active, alongside with working and middle class women in most of the demonstrations and campaigns for women’s rights.
The debate over income inequality generally ranges between the two extremes of Christie’s hypothetical equal, mediocre salary to the extreme wealth of the 1% controlling most of the wealth. However , where America was moving in its most general affluent times was not towards equal compensation, but to a large range of remuneration with the low end and middle constantly increasing over time and the high end a reasonable multiple of the low end. However, the breakdown came in the last decades of the 20th century and the early 21st century when the low end did not increase (discounting for inflation) in 40 years, nor did the middle, while the high end increased enormously. So the nation had 40 years of growth without the lower or middle classes benefitting much and all the benefit going to the wealthy and most of that to the very wealthy. Thus the instinct was to tax the wealthy more heavily and spending the money to increase opportunity for the lower and middle classes. However, the political battle was waged over the taxing issue and not on what could be done to have the poor and the middle class obtain a larger proportion of the growth and a smaller percentage of the setbacks.
Michael Makoto Honda is an American politician and former educator. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in Congress from 2001 to 2017.
