Camden, SC. – Today, Sen. Vincent Sheheen released his plan of leadership for women in South Carolina, after recently launching a statewide series of roundtables to discuss the challenges that women and their families face in the Palmetto State.
Sen. Sheheen’s Women’s Agenda includes immediate steps that he will begin work on in the State Senate as well as action he would take as Governor of South Carolina to support equal pay for equal work, reduce violence against women, grow women-owned small businesses, and restore common sense and accountability to government through honest leadership.
Throughout the month of March, Sen. Sheheen is holding a series of roundtable discussions with women to discuss these policy initiatives and listen to their stories. The statewide roundtable tour kicked off in Spartanburg and Rock Hill on March 8th and will include stops in Columbia, Myrtle Beach, Charleston, Greenville and Aiken over the next three weeks.
View Sen. Sheheen’s Women’s Agenda as well as his other ideas for how to improve leadership and accountability in South Carolina at www.vincentsheheen.com. His book, “The Right Way: Getting the Palmetto State Back on Track” is free and also available online, here.
Leadership & Accountability for South Carolina’s Women
Equal Pay for Equal Work. Women are a key part of our state economy and our businesses, and whole families suffer when women do not get paid equally to men. However, wage disparity is alive and well in South Carolina. Nationally, women earn only $0.77 for every $1.00 that a man makes. There is anecdotal evident that it’s in our state it’s even worse. So it’s time for action.
Vincent’s plan of action:
- Call for an audit to examine the wages currently being paid to South Carolina’s state employees based on position and gender, to determine if female state employees are being compensated equally with their male counterparts for equal work
- As governor issue an Executive Order requiring state employees to be paid equally for equal work.
- Ensure state government sets a good example for the private sector on pay equity.
Stop Violence Against Women. Violence against women is at an unacceptable level in South Carolina. We rank first in the nation in the number of women killed annually by men, and the rape rate in the state is higher than the national average. Yet, Nikki Haley vetoed funding for rape crisis centers and even referred to abused women as a “special interest group.” It’s time to be proactive in working to stop violence against women, and ensure that our laws are strong enough to hold abusers accountable.
Vincent’s plan of action:
- Expand Domestic Abuse definition to include teenage relationships and protect women under 18
- Increase penalties for those convicted of domestic abuse.
- Protect vital funding for rape crisis centers and women’s shelters to provide safe havens for women and children.
- Work with faith-based and non-profit organizations to improve partnership with government and amplify efforts to prevent violence against women.
Support Women-Owned Small Businesses. South Carolina is close to last in the nation with the percent of businesses owned by women. But it’s not a lack of talent. So what’s the problem? Under Nikki Haley, women face significant challenges in opening and growing their businesses, and have unique barriers to achieving the American dream here in South Carolina.
Vincent’s plan of action:
- Support small businesses in-state as much as those we recruit from out-of-state.
- Remove the barriers women face in starting up a business in S.C. by creating a Division of Entrepreneurship and encouraging small business investment.
- Fully fund our state’s technical college system and streamline worker-training programs to improve women’s access to education and technical skills.
Demand Common Sense & Accountability in Government. Women and families have been repeatedly hurt by the incompetence in government over the past four years. Nikki Haley’s administration hid a TB outbreak at a public school for two months before letting mothers know their children were being exposed. She covered up the Dept. of Revenue hacking for 16 days and put parents and their children at risk of identity theft for the rest of their lives. People deserve a government that works and works for them. And when government doesn’t, they don’t need excuses, they deserve action and results.
Vincent’s plan of action:
- Appoint a diverse group of qualified leaders, and demand accountability from them.
- Fully fund his Taxpayer Protection Fund to help those who suffer financial loss from the hacking.
- Increase diversity on college boards and in leadership positions around the state to better represent women.
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17 comments
The claim that women don’t do as well as men, has been exposed a s a hoax.
Women are more likely to opt to leave their job to stay home w/ a child…when that is factored in, women actually do better than men.
And when you consider the VAST number of teachers are women, as are most nurses, women have much, much more job security and have seen VAST rises in incomes, as the GOP has poured money to increase spending in education and increased healthcare funding….
Liberals have myths, fables and lies..or they’d have nothing at all..Sheheen has nothing at all…not even a chance…
You tell ’em Tang-O!
Fuck women, right?
That’s what god made them for.
Why not, they fuck men, we fuck each other; its how things are done.
My goodness is this strategy stupid. Identity politics and patronizing “war on women” nonsense would seem to be poor lines of attack against a female governor. Haley is terrible at her job, but rather than focus on her actual weaknesses Sheheen wants to mansplain to her about why violence against women is bad? Or how he can lecture our female chief executive on opportunities for women? Does he really think he will convince voters in the reddest of red states that a Democrat is a supporter of small businesses, no matter the gender of the owners?
He should cut out all but the penultimate paragraph and craft a plan of action for the accountability piece that contains something other than vague diversity speak. I mean, I was truly impressed that he did not follow Haley’s proposal of a homogeneous group of unqualified & unaccountable leaders, but I think there needs to be a bit more meat on that bone to sway anyone’s vote. Here is a radical thought, why not highlight some of the actual incompetent leaders Haley has appointed and tell us what you would have done differently (preferably without harping on their reproductive organs). You certainly would not be lacking for examples.
Carson, is this YOU?
No.
Vinny’s all about women. He voted for Toal. Oh wait
Yep. He is Toal’s lapdog. His corrupt little ole time 1930’s SC Democratic Party where the white elite control the black votes with gifts is a waste of time and resources for those of us who want a progressive government and a real Democratic Party. Go to hell, Vinny.
Vinny = GOP lite. And yes, there is a war on women and many other things that Vinny is for but a real Dem is against.
Will Sheheen have an “Agenda for Men”?
Men and Boys:
Lower test scores.
Higher high school drop-out rates.
Higher incarceration rates.
Lower college enrollment than women.
Shorter life spans.
I doubt it. It would not be politically correct.
There really is a war on women but Ted Kennedy has the only confirmed kill.
He needs to start with finding work for Ginger and Mary Ann. Mrs. Howell is a rich retiree, but I hear she supports the senator’s agenda.
Equal pay for equal work, what a fucking joke. You want equal pay for equal work then women should have to register for the draft; that will equal it out. When I served my enlistment I did not meet one female soldier that could not do what I could do if not better. Let them register for the draft, give them equal pay. Also all this talk of legalization of pot, fuck that, what will the drug dealers do, what we need to do is criminalize the pill, a drug dealers dream come true! And that girl smoking the bowl in the other feed is Judy Junquie, for real now, I met her at the show at blues show at Awendaw Green which is a brand name too…she’s not really a junquie, shes sweet.
I understand that equal is not a problem anywhere except the White House.We all know that Vincent supports this White House and was present at the DNC when most of the delegates booed adding the name of God to the Party Platform. I still await a truthful explanation for that and one for how they ruled that the proposed rule was validated by the vote. Democrats have no problem when it comes to lying even when the world is watching. The only difference this time they did not shake the finger in the face of America.
Sheheen’s primary goal is to reduce to zero the salary of the female chief executive officer of the state.
“I’ll do it!”