June 7, 2012

Republicans insist the Democrats’ claim of a “war on women” is simply a fairytale. Yet every week the GOP pushes another anti-woman policy that proves that this fairytale is reality. This week, my Senate GOP colleagues blocked the Paycheck Fairness Act, a bill that would have ensured women earn equal pay for equal work. Sounds simple enough, but not to my Republican friends who managed to use every manner of double-speak to justify opposing this bill.

This was not the first time we have seen this. This war on women has been raging for a while now and there seems no end in sight. And while this war has been bad for all women, it has the potential to be devastating for women of color.