Wisconsin state senator Glenn Grothman (R-West Bend) wants women to know that the whole concept of wage discrimination is all in their heads. “It’s an under reported problem,” Grothman told The Daily Beast, “but a huge number of discrimination claims are baseless. Most of them are filed by fired employees, and really today almost anybody is a protected class.”
It was this rationale that led the senator to spearhead the drive to repeal Wisconsin’s 2009 Equal Pay Enforcement Act, the state’s equivalent of the Ledbetter Act, the federal law that helped provide the means for workers to pursue discrimination claims against employers.
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