Jimmy Carter: Religion part of pay inequity

[cbayer]

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/03/jimmy-carter-religion-pay-inequity-women-104946.html

By TAL KOPAN | 3/24/14 1:41 PM EDT Updated: 3/24/14 5:39 PM EDT
Former President Jimmy Carter says that the fact that women, on average, earn less than men in the workplace is partly because of religious leaders who present women’s inferiority as gospel.

“In the United States for the same exact work for a full-time employee, women get 23 percent less pay than men. And in the Fortune 500, only 21 of those leaders among the 500 are women, and in that high level, they get 42 percent less pay” than men get, Carter said in an interview with MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell that aired Monday. “That is really derived, I would say, indirectly from the fact that religious leaders say that women are inferior in the eyes of God, which is a false interpretation” of Scriptures, he said.

The Nobel laureate was discussing his forthcoming book, “A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power,” which is to be released Tuesday. In it, he calls the situation for women worldwide one of the greatest human rights issues of the day, including in the United States.

He says the treatment of women in the U.S. is comparable to segregation and racism, for which he partially blames religion.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/03/jimmy-carter-religion-pay-inequity-women-104946.html#ixzz2wzHItScQ

[burfman]

1. "Life isn't fair"

Dude - you forgot your own quote!

[cbayer]

2. I'm not sure what you are saying here.

Surely you are not suggesting that the pay inequities that women face are just a part of life being unfair.

[burfman]

3. No I'm not - I guess you're too young to remember when Carter was president....

No I'm for equal pay for women - totally.

It was just hearing that President Carter is pushing another book based upon his 'seeing the light' brought back memories of what he said while he was president many years ago. I believe it had to do (if I remember correctly) with a debate about the government paying for poor women who wanted abortions but could not afford them. Jimmy's answer was the quote "Life isn't fair".

Just looked it up on the internet - it was the justification Jimmy Carter used when defending the Hyde Amendment.....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyde_Amendment

You can read what David Broder wrote at the time in his commentary: http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2209&dat=19770725&id=VY1jAAAAIBAJ&sjid=93kNAAAAIBAJ&pg=4869,4054954

[cbayer]

4. Lol, no I am not that young, but I don't remember that quote.

Welcome to the religion group burfman.

I looked this up and he said it in 1977. Ugly time for him.

[burfman]

5. yeah I had to go refresh my memory too....

I did remember the quote right off - but I admit I had to go back to and figure out what pissed me off so many years ago that his answer stuck in my head......

David Broder's article brought the memories back for me:


http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2209&dat=19770725&id=VY1jAAAAIBAJ&sjid=93kNAAAAIBAJ&pg=4869,4054954

[cbayer]

6. That's the first article I found as well.