Bloomberg Op-Ed: Women's Money `Fetish' Meets Lobbying Honesty: Susan Antilla

By Susan Antilla, 8/26/10

“You’ve got to love the people at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, because there aren’t a lot of places these days where life is still simple and blissfully predictable.  Fair pay law for women? Against it. Family medical leave for employees at small businesses? Thumbs down. Laws to make it easier for women to sue for unequal pay? No way.  If it’s a social program, an agency that might level the playing field for consumers getting hoodwinked by business, or a proposal to raise the legal risks for companies that don’t pay women what they pay men for the same job, chances are you’ll find the lobbyists at the Chamber of Commerce hustling to quash it. That’s what’s so lovable about the Pavlovian Chamber. Cheaper for business, good. Expensive for business, bad. See how easy that is?” 

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