On equal pay, Wendy Davis to Greg Abbott: 'This Texas gal is calling you out'
At a Monday morning rally before a packed and pumped-up crowd of about 160 at Sholz Garten, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis pressed the issue of equal pay for equal work, challenging Attorney General Greg Abbott to, "stop hiding behind your staff members, stop hiding behind your surrogates."
"This Texas gal is calling you out," declared the Fort Worth Democrat to huge applause on an issue that has energized her campaign for the governorship since the March 4 primary.
Davis faulted Abbott for successfully fighting a 2011 pay discrimination case in court — albeit one based on race and nationality and not gender — and presiding over an office which, according to a recent report in the San Antonio Express-News, most female assistant attorneys general make less on average than men do in the same job.
When Davis was asked afterward about why women make more than men on her Senate and campaign staffs, she said that the pay differential was based on differences in experience and ability. Asked whether that might not be the same case among assistant attorneys general, Davis said, if so, it was up to the attorney general to explain and defend that circumstance.
More at http://www.statesman.com/news/news/equal-pay-wendy-davis-greg-abbott-texas-gal-callin/nfKWg/ .
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