Widener's Harrisburg students' bake sale offers a lesson about equal pay

Submitted by Mastodon on Tue, 2013-04-09 17:05

Article here. Excerpt:

'At Tuesday’s bake sale on Widener’s Harrisburg Campus, there will be cupcakes, muffins, cookies and more. Each treat will be sold at two different prices.

For men, it’s $1. For women, 75 cents.

Call that unfair and you’ll be in for a lesson.

The bake sale is intended to draw attention to National Equal Pay Day – an event that reflects how far into the year women must work to match what men doing the same job earned in the previous year.'

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a bake sale on a university campus to raise awareness of the inequity experienced by men in terms of funding for education? Women have to pay $2.50 for a cupcake, while men have to pay $0.50, since there is 5 times as many female-only scholarships as male-only scholarships.

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Submitted by xtrnl on Wed, 2013-04-10 05:46