Reposted from buzzfeed.com and MomsRising.
“As the final season of Mad Men approaches, we’re excited to see our favorite characters back again on the small screen – we just wish that we could turn off workplace discrimination as easily as we turn off the TV. Mad Men is set in the 1960s, but here are 7 ways that 2014 looks like a Mad Men script. #NoMadMenPay”
About MomsRising: In short, MomsRising.org is an on-the-ground and online grassroots organization of more than a million people who are working to achieve economic security for all moms, women, and families in the United States. MomsRising is working for paid family leave, earned sick days, affordable childcare, and for an end to the wage and hiring discrimination which penalizes so many mothers. MomsRisingalso advocates for better childhood nutrition, health care for all, toxic-free environments, breastfeeding rights so that all children can have a healthy start, and a national budget that reflects the contributions of women and moms. Established in 2006, MomsRising and its members are organizing and speaking out to improve public policy and to change the national dialogue on issues that are critically important to America’s women and families. In addition to being a grassroots force, MomsRising also has a strong readership reach: With over 1,000 blogger, in 2013, Forbes.com named MomsRising‘s web site as one of the Top 100 Websites For Women for the fourth year in a row and Working Mother magazine included MomsRising on its “Best of the Net” list.