Brad Peck

Chamber Blasts Employee Who Accused Career Women Of Fetishizing Money

Megan Carpentier | August 20, 2010, 2:44PM

Bradley Peck and Lilly Ledbetter

A post on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's own blog by one of its employees that suggested women are to blame for the wage gap solely because they take time off to have children has gotten a very public smack-down from a top Chamber executive.

In the post "Equality, Suffrage and a Fetish for Money," which went up Wednesday, ChamberPost editor and Senior Director of Communications Brad Peck accused Democratic women who compare the fight for fair pay to the fight for suffrage of having "Scrooge-like fetish for money." This would, of course, be the same Chamber that regularly advocates for policies on everything from environmental regulation to, yes, equal pay to tort reform that would allow its members to increase profits.

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