Article appearing in Men’s News Daily by Marshall Rockford Goodman claims the Ledbetter Act gives “a largely immoral,if not sociopathic, group of attorneys another license to steal from companies.” Mr. Goodman also believes the act ” appeals to women’s inculcated sense of oppression.”http://mensnewsdaily.com/x/2009/02/16/so-called-women%E2%80%99s-fair-pay-act-a-payback-to-trial-lawyers/
Topic; Should the Obama administration work to eliminate pay inequality for women?
Category: Journalistic/Article
Title: Fair Pay Act a Payback to Trial Lawyers
Publication Information: Mens News Daily, an online news magazine, was founded in 2001 as a “sanctuary for men”, where” a man can be a man without apology.” It is funded by subscriptions and advertisements. This piece was posted February 16,2009.
Author: Marshall Rockford Goodman, men’s rights activist and author
Accessed:March 4,2009
Support:Lilly Ledbetter Act; civil rights actions; Hans Bader, author of “Equal Pay Baloney From the Press”, who states that news stories echo press releases.
Source Analysis: As amen’s rights activist, it seems Goodman has taken a fairly open anti-woman approach, mirroring women’s rights activists’ fairly open anti-men leanings. The Mens News Daily is a blatant ” lets stay together,boys” tactic. The contributors have at least evolved out of their hiding places in men’s clubs to openly whining on the net.
Usefulness: This article gives a fantastic male approach to my topic. Goodman is more concerned about his taxes being raised when corporations being sued for pay discrimination go under then he is about women being justly compensated for their work. He does provide an interesting twist in suggesting that labor lawyers have the most to profit from the new legislation.
Works Cited:http://cei.org/people/hans-bader
http://mensnewsdaily.com/author-profiles/?user=Marshall-Rockford-Goodman
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