Thank you, Ms. Savage, for your insightful and fair coverage of this very important issue - I would not have known before how relevant this emerging issue is to the american people, and you can bet your bottom dollar I'll be watching this bench closely in the coming months.

A question for the author: Where do we draw the line to indicate that a lawsuit can no longer be brought against a firm? Pay discrimination is a difficult thing to prove in the first place. While 180 days (six months) may be too short a time frame, should companies be indefinitely at the mercy of any employee who feels they haven't been compensated fairly? Excellent work, your readers demand more!

intresting and timely reporting; impt and a significant issue affecting women. Apparently 5 of the "Supremes" do not want to protect equal pay and have little understanding of the realities of the workplace.

The Civil Rights Act limits backpay to two years so companies are not exposed forever. Prior to this decision, what the law did do was expose them to liability if they continued to profit today from observable, proven disparaties at the expense of minorities. Corporations know - or with reasonable diligence - can know if they are paying women less than men, blacks less than whites, etc. And they can rectify it. Willful blindness to those disparities is discouraged as a result of this court opinion though.

Excellent work Ms. Savage. A timely article on a critical subject which I totally agree with!!! I look forward to seeing more articles from you.

Ms. Savage,

I enjoyed the article. As a woman this is a particular topic that plays on my soul.
Excellent work.
Ms. D. Thomas

Bush is going to nominate another Supreme Court Justice this month, end of term, because Souter wants to retire and leave D.C. Things will get interesting.

This is an important contribution by Ms. Savage. She notes that it is the reserved Justice Ginsburg that is now called upon to stand up for civil liberties to the "gang of five" and is doing so with her usual intellect, eloquence and grace, but also with a strong voice that many did not realize that she possessed. However, Ms. Savage also reminds us of the crucial social and civil rights issues coming before this Court and the critical balance in numbers of Justices with opposing personal views, which could tip the balance for our future either way. My opinion: we have been talking about this situation for years, but we are now down to the bitter reality--unless we elect a new President before too many cases come through the Court or before President Bush appoints another Justice, it may be too late to prevent damage that most U.S. citizens had not envisioned, even those who voted for George W. Bush.

thanks.

Excellent work.I enjoyed the article.

It was a nice article. It made me think.

intresting and timely reporting; impt and a significant issue affecting women. Apparently 5 of the "Supremes" do not want to protect equal pay and have little understanding of the realities of the workplace.

While we all get caught up in the Hillary and Obama crap, and while the campaign trail becomes a four year distraction between elections, all kinds of other, more important issues are getting overlooked by the media and by all of us. Thanks for the report. MoJo should put a muzzle on campaign reporting, making it something that can only take up about thirty percent of this blog, in order for the dirty deals, partisanship and various other misdeeds of justice for all that still happensto be reported. Plus forcing the campaign through a narrower window would probably force more objective and powerful choices for what actually gets called news. Now, having said that, don't ask me how MoJo should regulate or accomplish this idea.

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