
Women's Network hosts bake sale to illustrate gender wage gap by charging men more
Submitted by anthony on Mon, 2009-04-27 20:38
Story here. Excerpt:
'Women on campus will be able to buy cookies, brownies and other bakery items for 75 cents, while men will have to pay $1 if they want a bite at a campus bake sale, a member of the TCU Women's Network said.
Megan O'Brien, president of the TCU Women's Network and senior art history major, said the Women's Network and Women's Studies Program will be hosting a bake sale to illustrate the gap between women's and men's wages on Thursday.
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O'Brien said women on average get paid 77 cents to every dollar earned by men. The bake sale will sell cookies, brownies, cake and vegan options, she said.'
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i wonder if some women will
i wonder if some women will ask to pay the full dollar out of fairness?
I wouldn't support this sexist crap
Now have a bake sale where white people get to pay 75 cents, and nonwhites have to pay a dollar. See if that goes over well.
Or better yet, have a bake sale where the women get the discount, but actually have to work hard to earn it, much in the same way men work at harder jobs to earn the 23 extra pennies per hour which they do.
I hope the men had enough self respect to resist the garbage they were selling. Lord knows I wouldn't buy anything from an event like this.
Evan AKA X-TRNL
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