Women need to work 16 months to earn what men do in 12
The calendar is full made-up-sounding holidays for good causes. And there’s nothing wrong with that — even if it’s unclear what the Black History Months of the world actually do for betterment of society other than creating an excuse for elementary school assignments and a vague sense of goodwill.
Equal Pay Day, which was last Tuesday, might be one such holiday — but it’s a very interesting one. In the United States today, women make about seventy-seven percent of what men make for doing the same job. That means that a woman would need to work all of 2010 and then an extra fifteen weeks into 2011, or from New Year's Day to last Tuesday, to earn what a man would earn in a year doing the same job.
Which is crazy, since we can all agree that 2010 feels like a very long-time ago. And that makes gender-based pay discrimination feel like a much bigger deal than a percentage. Feminist groups have been working to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act for over a decade, with no luck — not surprisingly, since no one seems to have ever heard of it.
Anyway, if you didn’t on Tuesday, gentlemen of the world, you should buy a really awesome sandwich for a female colleague. It’s the least you can do.
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i would like to see the demographic of the women surveyed
you know it's bad when going into the military and going into prison both have the same likelihood of getting you raped.
Condoms + 11 year old me = water bombs!
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