This Store Lets Women Pay 76 Cents To Every Man’s Dollar

Submitted by Mastodon on Wed, 2015-04-15 03:40

Article here. Excerpt:

'Elana Schlenker is starting a pop-up shop called 76<100 in Pittsburgh, where she charges women 76% of the retail price of any item, while men are charged the full ticket price. (In Pennsylvania, women earn 76 cents on the dollar.) Says Schlenker, "It's incredible how deeply unconscious biases still permeate the ways in which we perceive (and value) women versus men. I hope the shop's pricing helps to underscore this inherent unfairness and to create space for people to consider why the wage gap still exists."
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Elana Schlenker is starting a pop-up shop called 76<100 in Pittsburgh, where she charges women 76% of the retail price of any item, while men are charged the full ticket price. (In Pennsylvania, women earn 76 cents on the dollar.) Says Schlenker, "It's incredible how deeply unconscious biases still permeate the ways in which we perceive (and value) women versus men. I hope the shop's pricing helps to underscore this inherent unfairness and to create space for people to consider why the wage gap still exists."

As for its offerings, 76<100 sells products made by independent women artists who are all on board with Schlenker's mission. "Most of them feel the way that I do — something needs to be done about this. I just keep reading article after article about the wage gap, about how undervalued women are in the workplace, about the underrepresentation of women in company board of directors, executive positions, and government, and it just blows my mind. This is a small way that I can do something about it, and I think many of the artists involved are coming from a similar place."'

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Buying clubs are legal, like Sam's, BJ's, etc., but they still allow non-members to buy items but at an added percentage, around 5-10%. But I wonder if it's even legal, because it isn't lawful to hold one's business out as a place of public commerce and generally charge one class of person less than others based on their innate characteristics. For example, if you take the classic reasoning of feminists around this so-called wage gap, why stop there? The exact same thinking's applicable to others by class of innate characteristics, too. Ethnicity is just one type of characteristic; the typical person of Asian ethnicity in the US has a higher income than any other ethnic group member, but is that because of pro-Asian ethnicity prejudice or anti-non-Asian ethnicity prejudice? I daresay the reasons lie elsewhere. Or, because other non-Caucasian descendent ethnic groups as a function of gross income tend to make less in pay yearly, shouldn't there be stores where Asian descendent ppl pay the highest for goods, followed by Caucasians, then all other ethnic groups by order of lesser average income? Now think of height. It's been shown taller ppl tend to have an easier time of it at work, get promoted more readily, get raises faster, etc. So maybe ppl over the avg. height for a given gender/ethnicity/etc. ought to pay more for things than "the short ppl".

The ludicrousness of such thinking is obvious when applied generally but there's no reason to restrict the principle to just one group: women. UNLESS of course one is a nymphotrope, and that is exactly what is happening here.

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Submitted by Matt on Thu, 2015-04-16 23:31

It's more of a publicity stunt than a business. It's a "non-profit" business.....I see so much irony in this article, the feminists are cracking me up with their sillyness. For starters, how can any of them afford to be "artists" to supply a non-profitable art studio business (do they have working husbands?). And if women make career choices like this, then less of them will be in CEO positions.

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Submitted by Kris on Fri, 2015-04-17 06:12

I couldn't for the life of me figure out why any business would want to operate under such a bad business model.

You start by eliminating nearly half of your potential customers by alienating based on nothing other than indelible characteristics.

Then proceed to offer what customers you do have a discount on everything,. . .

Yeah, I can see why it's a "not-for-profit" business. It's certainly not-for-logic.

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Submitted by xtrnl on Fri, 2015-04-17 07:11