I would agree with that statement.
I feel that it's very important to have the right to pay equity enshrined. I feel that it's difficult for people to bargain. I feel that it affects long-term poverty, because people are not as well able to put away money for old age. This is something that is really echoing with senior citizens today, because they lived under inequitable pay conditions during their working lives.
I would suggest that pay equity is actually one of the key factors in getting off the poverty treadmill and getting women to economic independence. They should not have to be dependent on another person in the household in order to be rich in their old age. They should not have to be dependent on another person in the household in order to be able to afford child care, and so on and so forth. It's a kind of spillover effect.
It's really important for women to get the same money as men do in the same job and be recognized as being equal with men. If their talents are equal, I don't see why their pay should not be equal. It seems to me that is only fair.