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In honor of #EqualPayDay I am going to share some quotes from the equal pay debates of the late 1860s & early 1870s. #ThisGrandExperiment
During these debates, Congress came shockingly close to passing an #EqualPay bill for federal employees. In fact, they did pass them, but multiple times the provision was lost in committee.
Congress was debating #EqualPay because women employed by the government began petitioning for higher (and sometimes equal) pay for doing the same or comporable jobs.
