I know, because I have been in this position. It takes a lot of time, money and support to sue for discrimination. And while there is some history of success in the field of racial discrimination, there has been little or none in the area of gender discrimination–especially recently. Even lawyers don’t put a lot of effort into trying to win these cases, because they rarely succeed and the few that do, result in very small judgments. Juries don’t care.

So, while I’m glad a few more loopholes have been closed in the books, don’t get excited. Until women are respected and our contributions valued, no amount of legislation is going to make much of a difference.

The sexism we witnessed in the last election and the fact that, even so called feminists were supportive of it demonstrate just how far we are from having equality for women in this country. This legislation is more hocus pocus–unfortunately.