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The wage gap issue has been front and center this month. On April 17, we marked another Equal Pay Dayâ€"the symbolic point at which a woman’s salary finally caught up to her male counterpart’s from the preceding year. Before that, we heard a Wisconsin state senator say it was “arguable” that money was more important for men than women, and we saw the repeal of that state’s Equal Pay Enforcement Act.
 
Wisconsin’s old law was intended to discourage discrimination by allowing cases to be filed in state court where harsher penalties acted as stronger deterrents than those in federal courts that rely on anemic 50 year old laws. Before that 2009 state law was passed, Wisconsin ranked 36th in pay gap statistics. One year after its passage, the state moved up to 24th. Progress was being made!
 
No wonder they repealed it.

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