Most major companies, including education, and government, has a pay scale for the job. That pay scale tells what pay, regardless of gender, a job is worth. What Obama's initiative was designed to do was punish small business, the real back bone of the economy. Think political donation. A large corporation can, and does, donate to a political candidate, and party doesn't make a difference, because the money is protection money. Small business don't have that luxury, especially in a poor economy. However the protest say more about the women, then eliminating the initiative. If pay at one company isn't what you think it should be, go to a company that pays more.