On Monday, the Daily Wire’s Ashe Schow reported that Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) had unveiled a plan to punish companies that paid women less than men — a misguided effort to close the so-called “gender wage gap” that Harris claims is the result of widespread discrimination against and oppression of women.
It turns out, though, if Harris is going to start fining CEOs and company leadership for failing to pay men and women equally, she’s going to have to start with herself.
Harris’ plan would require companies to obtain a written document from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, officially certifying that they pay men and women equally. If they cannot, they will be fined 1% of earnings for every 1% difference in pay between the genders.
“Kamala Harris has a simple message for corporations: Pay women fairly or pay the price,” the campaign said in a statement. “We’ve let corporations hide their wage gaps, but forced women to stand up in court just to get the pay they’ve earned. It’s time to flip the script and finally hold corporations accountable for pay inequality in America.”
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