In addition to Senator Ernie Chambers, senators Jim Jensen, Pam Redfield, Gene Tyson, Jon Bruning and Adrian Smith have also signed on to the bill. In other news, some studies show that working women make only 74 cents to every dollar a man makes. Senator Shelley Kiel wants to change this. Capitol View's Mary Jo Huff has more on the issue of pay equity in Nebraska. For many years, nursing has been a female-dominated career, and it still is.
Teaching is another job with a majority of women.
But Senator Shelley Kiel says, even in these fields, women still make less than men. I knew that there was an inequity. I did not know it was as significant as it is in the state of Nebraska. It may be because nursing and teaching are typically dominated by females and those are typically underpaid kinds of jobs. Senator Shelley Kiel is introducing a bill asking businesses to determine whether they practice gender pay discrimination.