Other proposals. We will begin there this morning after the white house yesterday and democrats marked equal payday, hoping to make it a political issue in 2014. We turn to women only this morning. If its an issue for you politically or personally, we divide the lines by party. Republican women, 202 5853880. Republican women, 202 5853881. Democratic women, 202 5853880. You can also email us. Women only this morning 30 want to hear your story and get your thoughts. President obama yesterday at the white house marking equal payday. We will show you what you had to say yesterday at the white house. Democrats also talking about it up on capitol hill. And republicans responding. Here is roll calls headline. Democrats and republicans using women as ponds in payday. The Senate Republicans pushed back again tuesday against the notion the gop is waging a war on women. Gop leaders accusing democrats of using women as ponds to score political points. They will say whether they bring their own legislative solution to the floor. Focusing instead on rebutting democrats equal payday criticism that the gop is antiwomen. Heres a tweet put out by the white house yesterday. It is long past time to ensure equal pay for women. Equal payday 2014. That is what the white house yesterday had to say on twitter. Here is democrat, rosa delauro that is what the democrats are saying. Under the leadership on the house side said all people deserve equal pay for equal work. Period. Also tweeted out some more the administration touts its policies as a compliment for women. How are women really doing under obama care . How to its policies as accomplishments for women. 2. 6 million workers at risk of having their hours reduced because of obama care. 63 of those most at risk are women is what republican congresswoman lynn jenkins had to say on twitter. Mary is up first from virginia. What do you think . Caller im a democrat. Host what do you think about this page quality issue . Caller i think its a great idea that the democrats are doing this. I dont think the republicans are declaring war on women. I think their priorities are basically for Upper Echelon incomes which is usually white male. I dont think we should vilify the republicans. I think this is a really critically important issue. If the republicans are smart they will get behind it instead of trying to fight it. In my own situation im an attorney. I worked hard all my life. The general field, ive been compensated. I have seen many examples in the workplace where i dont think that is the situation. It is an important issue, not just for women lets start with women but make sure they is pay equality for everybody based on what they bring to the workplace. Host have you been paid the same amount as a male attorney in that same position . Caller thats an issue. You never know. Disclosure of pay is an important issue to consider. You dont really know until you can see for yourself in black and white what your other colleagues are making. Im glad you guys are talking about it this morning. Host we want to hear from women only this morning. Is this a political issue . Whats it like for you out there . Heres what the president yesterday had to say at the white house. [video clip] today, the working woman earns . 77 for every dollar a man earns. Thats an embarrassment. It is wrong. This is not just an issue of fairness. Its also a family issue and an economic issue. Women make up half of our workforce. They are increasingly the breadwinners for a whole lot of families out there. When they make less money, it means less money for gas, less money for groceries, less money for child care. Less money for College Tuition less money to go into retirement savings. Its all bad for business. Our economy depends on customers out there. When customers have less money when hardworking women dont have the resources, thats a problem. Host president obama yesterday at the white house making the economic argument for paid quality. We want to get your thoughts this morning. Women only. Dialin now. You can also join the conversation on twitter, facebook and send us an email as well. Heres jonathan weismans piece today in the New York Times on this. He writes, democrats trying to recap the midterm elections focus away from healthcare and reach out to the constituency that is delivering them the last two president ial elections. Women. In a cordon it effort on tuesday cordonordinated efforts on tuesday on wednesday morning, the senate will vote on whether to take up legislation that would make it illegal for employers to retaliate against employees who discussed the salaries expose employers to civil action for such recalibration and require the equal Employment Opportunity commission to collect information from employers. Democrats know the legislation will fail. That is part of the plan. He says republicans were dismissive of the tactic and pointed to the root problem for democrats and econom economy under president obama. The newark times also reports this morning. Democrats cut through the headwinds against them in the midterm election, must revive the gender cap that has sustained them in campaigns regeneration and expand their political pitch to a broader middleclass audience. Charles schumer paints the effort as an assembly of the electorate. Incoming push on Student Loans is and at 49 Million People 40 Million People either in Higher Education or struggling with student debt. What the white house and democrats are trying to do. The Washington Times this morning in their story reports this. In a study last year by the American Enterprise institute found that male white house staffers earning median salary of while female employees earn 65,000. The ministrations explanation for the discrepancy is that lower paid positions may be filled by more women than men. But those who hold the same jobs are paid equally regardless of their sex. Women are paid on average . 77 for every dollar a man earns. Critics say that measure fails to take into account government figures showing that men are almost twice as likely as women to work more than 40 hours a week, are much less likely to interrupt their work history to have or raise children and have other differences in labor market participation, including concentration in higherpaying fields. There is criticism of that figure that is often cited that women make . 77 for every dollar a man makes. Tina in mississippi. Republican. What do you think . Caller this is just another excuse for the president to sidetrack the real issue that there are no jobs out there. Here we are worrying about equal pay when there are no jobs. Yes, there are instances where women do make less than men and they should not. It men do harder, more dangerous jobs. Why dont we stick to the issue here . There are no jobs and this president just wants all of us to vote as single women. Lets be honest. Thank you. Host we will go to mary. Democrat from houston, texas. Caller we do need more jobs and we need to educate our children more. So they can get those jobs. Im a nurse. This is my experience. My boss, who is a woman me and this guy went to the same school, have the same educational background and also have the same experience as nurses. At the same job she hired me at four dollars less than our than him. I have a problem with that. Its not only men that do it. Women do it to. Thats women do it, too. We dont value each other. We dont have enough selfesteem for women over men. We have the same parents with the same jobs. He makes four dollars more per hour. I have kids. He has no kids. I dont understand that. It needs to be something in place to send a message on to everybody that hire somebody that we are valued. Women are valued on the same level as men. Host is this an important enough issue for you that you will go to the polls in november and vote . Caller i go to the polls all the time because America Needs to change. We need to stop not valuing people. I get tired of Homeless People on the streets. I get tired of dealing with men and women issues. I get tired of dealing with people who are so uneducated im in a profession where you have all levels of education and people dont even know that they need to vote. They need to start educating the public why its so important to participate in our democratic society. If you dont vote and you dont show up for your candidate, your issues are lost. Dont forget about the last Supreme Court justice decision that said, we can put money if its 435 house members, they can invest their money in 435 house members to sway their opinion. George washington said that Interest Groups would destroy this country. It is destroying our country. The issue is not about people. Its about big corporations. When roosevelt passed those bills and eisenhower came, he said, you cannot put our government in the hands of business. Business does not have interest in the people and the government. They are interested in the bottom line, which is profit. Host we are income women only this morning. We are hearing from women only this morning. Is this issue a political one for you in 2014 . How does it impact you personally echo republicans . Republicans, 202 5853881. 202 5853880 four democratic women. Independence, you can call at 202 5853882. Employment among women is higher now than before the recession. Thats not the case for men. Women faring better than men during this recovery. Its not a womens only issue. It is a National Issue and the need for fairness and equality. There is a tweet whenever viewers, karen, who says, of course. It should be an issue for everyone. Men and women. And in new york. Are you a democrat or republican . Caller im a conservative. I feel equal pay for equal jobs i worked as a nurse for 40 years. It was equal there. Men came in and women came in and it was no problem. If i had a company myself, i would want if the woman did the same job as the men, i would give them same pay. Sometimes is not equal. Maybe women are parttimers and you can give them as much as may be a fulltime man. Its not an issue of one thing for all. You have to look at it individually. Thats all i can say. Host miami, florida. Republican. Caller good morning. What i wanted to say is, this is just a game by the democrats. Look at the white house. Most of the women there are being underpaid. That is not being reported except for a few newscasters. It is all a game because they want us to forget about obama care. They want people to forget about whats going on. They want people to forget the economy. Its just a game. Host some numbers on this issue. This is what they reported. Womens paid work increased during the past four decades. Heres the percentage of women and men in the workforce back in 1970. The blue line is men. Women were 40 of the workforce. In 2011, 70 of men made up the workforce. 58 women. Also from the pole, some other numbers. This is what they say daughters work more hours and earn more than their mothers did this generation. Mothers in the labor force, 53 , daughters in the labor force make up 85 . Here is one other caveat to that. They report that, despite daughters large wage gains, every wrong on the economic ladder, they still earn a lower hourly wage then did fathers on the same wrong more than 30 years ago the same rung more than 30 years ago. Here is another story that made some headlines yesterday. The new stayathome mom surge is not who you think. This story on the todays show website. More moms are stinging home with the kids fulltime and those moms tend to be younger, less educated and more likely to be poor than women who work outside the home. The picture of stayathome motherhood may be at odds with the stereotype Many Americans have of wealthier, more educated mothers who choose to stay home with their children because they can afford not to work. It goes onto say, that is still true of some moms. Researchers also argue that many women who stay at home are doing so at least partly because they cant afford Childcare Costs and other expenses associated with going to work, especially if they cant get a job that pays well. There is a new surge of stayathome moms. Marie in florida. Democratic caller. The morning to you. Good morning to you. Caller i would like to say that there is an air here in the u. S. That the people are no longer import and. That came about in the bush years when mr. Bush decided that we needed to go to war in iraq. The government from that point on became the government and the people were totally left out of it. The United States overall did not want to get involved in that war. Mr. Bush did his best to whitewash it. He convinced 95 of us that maybe had a point. From that point on, with the telephones being cap, we started losing that freedom. At the present time, the Republican Party are all behind, wasting our money by trying to defeat the Affordable Care act. 50 times they have voted. How many millions of dollars have they wasted every time they have to go to a house vote . How many millions of dollars of their taxpayer money are they wasting . Host ally in pennsylvania. Republican caller. Caller hi. To the issue of the quality of pay raise, i am a Small Business owner and prior to that i was a professional in the workforce. I would say that there are pockets you can tweak numbers anyway you want. In terms of the numbers the democrats are looking at, its a smokescreen in my mind. Theyre trying to define Republican Party. That is a big mistake. The Republican Party has to not allow u our opponents to the finest. Icf be in pay i see equity in pay. It should be performancebased. If you are performing, you should be paid accordingly. Perhaps women need to speak up in the workforce if they feel they feel theyre not getting paid equitably. It did need to go to their manager and discuss it. Host has that happened to you . Caller have you had women come tocaller we have reviews. They know we set goals within the workforce. They know how they need to perform in order to get to the next step in their pay raise. Host let me bounce this off of you. The Washington Times frontpage story on this. They report that president obama used a moose on tuesday to close the pay gap between the sexes before federal contractors to force federal contractors businesses fear the orders will a ground for the government to take legal action against them. As a business owner, what if this was in the private sector . Federal contractors you had to tell the government what your employees earned and break it down by race and gender . Caller you have a lot of information there. It sounds to me like more regulatory control from the federal government. I dont think that is what Small Businesses need. Its already a huge burden. I am a government contractor. Putting more burden on Small Businesses for paperwork to meet some government requirements is necessary. There are already pay rate schedules that come out in contracts that you have to abide by. Thats the numbers you have to look at it in the evaluation not come principally and mixing it all together. It needs to be targeted by particular job segment areas. One caller did comment that there is a lot of lower paying jobs that women seem to be attracted to. I would look to see more women be doctors. Its a pretty tough job when you cant be with your family. Thats a choice that a lot of women are making. I make the choice of earning less money because i wanted to stay home with my children parttime. That was my choice. You can replace i cant put a value on being home with my children. I got paid less. But that was ok with me. Host do you mind telling us what federal contractors you have been on . Whats your business . How much do regulations like this cost you . Explain that to people who dont understand. When Small Business owners say regulations hurt our bottom line, what does that mean . Caller you usually have to have additional staff to handle the work. When there is more administrative requirement to manage a job or to minister grants there are certain hours that you cant bill on the contract. It is more overhead work. If you have certified payroll requirements, it takes a person that understands payroll and certified payrolls. For Small Businesses, you dont always have that special payroll. It is more regulation its tough. I would like to think that businesses do a pretty good job of managing themselves and Work Together withr to help each other out. Host the Los Angeles Times has the story. The front page medicare lifts the veil of payments. New data shows more doctors got more than 10 million in 2012. Officials warn them not to draw conclusions. Here is a picture of one doctor in florida who received a 26 million in medicare payments. That is the story from the Los Angeles Times. The New York Times says this this huge amount of health data is disclosed and 21 million for one physician in 2012 says that 100 doctors received a total of 610 million, ranging from a florida ophthalmologist to dozens of doctors. They received more than 4 million each year. This data coming out now, hoping to limit or decrease fraud in medicare and giving consumers more choices seeing how much doctors charts for different procedures doctors charge for different procedures. Most of it was for expenses. Here is how it broke down. You three percent of those made up 43 made up office overhead. Working percent for 13 for drugs and other expenses. On the Affordable Care act from the wall street journal, employers are counted for much of the increase. This is what they put out yesterday. The nations uninsured rate dropped to 15. 8 in midmarch from 20. 5 . One of the senior economists said employers accounted for much of the game in coverage by providing about 8. 2 million more people insurance. Of those, 7. 2 million previously were uninsured. These people the new numbers show that those who signed up on the exchange were not uninsured before