Patricia Arquette isn't the first to make the point: Women's wages lag in most sectors

Patricia Arquette's Academy Award acceptance speech last Sunday, calling for ecological sanitation in the third world and equal pay for women, came off sounding a bit like a woman who has a few too many bumper stickers on her Prius. But her closing comments on pay inequality achieved her apparent goal of starting a conversation - setting off criticism from commentators on the the right who said equal pay for equal work has been the law since 1963 and from those on the left who said equal pay is mainly an issue for wealthy white women.



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