excerpted from the NYT this morning:<\/p>\n
An initial disparity, even if known to the employee, might be small, Justice Ginsburg said, leading an employee, particularly a woman or a member of a minority group \u00e2\u20ac\u0153trying to succeed in a nontraditional environment\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to avoid \u00e2\u20ac\u0153making waves.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Justice Ginsburg noted that even a small differential \u00e2\u20ac\u0153will expand exponentially over an employee\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s working life if raises are set as a percentage of prior pay.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
Justices John Paul Stevens, David H. Souter and Stephen G. Breyer joined the dissent.<\/p>\n
Ms. Ledbetter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s salary was initially the same as that of her male colleagues. But over time, as she received smaller raises, a substantial disparity grew. By the time she brought suit in 1998, her salary fell short by as much as 40 percent; she was making $3,727 a month, while the lowest-paid man was making $4,286.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
excerpted from the NYT this morning: An initial disparity, even if known to the employee, might be small, Justice Ginsburg said, leading an employee, particularly a woman or a member of a minority group \u00e2\u20ac\u0153trying to succeed in a nontraditional environment\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to avoid \u00e2\u20ac\u0153making waves.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Justice Ginsburg noted that even a small differential \u00e2\u20ac\u0153will expand exponentially over an employee\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s working life if raises are set as a percentage of prior pay.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Justices John Paul Stevens,… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-kN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}