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The words 'nominal' 'actual' and 'punitive' have very specific meanings in a legal context. If you want to avoid being misunderstood, you should probably use the words in the correct way when you're discussing a lawsuit. In any case, I fail to see why you think it's unfair for someone who is being paid less just because she's a woman to be able to sue to recover the difference between what she actually made and what she would have made, had she been a man. Because those are the only damages the statute allows, unless I'm misreading it.
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"Die Deutschen meinen, daß die Kraft sich in Härte und Grausamkeit offenbaren müsse, sie unterwerfen sich dann gerne und mit Bewunderung:[...]. Daß es Kraft giebt in der Milde und Stille, das glauben sie nicht leicht."
"The Germans believe that power must reveal itself in hardness and cruelty and then submit themselves gladly and with admiration[...]. They do not believe readily that there is power in meekness and calm."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
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