Political Quotes

“I am a businessman. I am also the father of three daughters. I have managed people and managed compensation plans for more than 40 years, and I know that we cannot manage what we do not measure. I agree with my friend, the Republican congresswoman from New York, that men and women should be paid equally for equal work. This should be a bedrock principle of our democracy. But if we don't gather the data, how will we ever know if there is paycheck fairness? My middle daughter is a computer programmer--well paid. She was dismayed to learn around Christmastime that her male counterparts doing exactly the same work were making more money. It is a fiction that this will be a burden on employers with more than 100 employees. Absolutely none of these employers have not digitized their paycheck process decades ago. The collection of this data requires a keystroke; that is all. All the data, already there, already gathered. Pay transparency is the most powerful way to achieve paycheck fairness. Men and women together are outraged when they see actual measured pay unfairness. But where incomes are most fair, where they are most transparent--in the military and in government--paycheck inequity is small or even nonexistent. This is not a bill for lawyers. This is a bill for business owners and business managers who want to do the right thing and now will have the data to do that right thing.”