Equal Pay Day Prank By Swiss Bank Shows What It's Like To Be Paid 20 Percent Less

Submitted by Mastodon on Sun, 2013-04-14 18:06

Article here. Excerpt:

'A Swiss bank found an effective way of demonstrating the frustrations of the gender pay gap to its male customers: men withdrawing cash from the bank's ATM received 20 percent less than the amount they'd asked for.

According to the women's organization Zürcher Frauenzentrale, Swiss women earn about 20% less than equally capable men in comparable positions. The "Equality At The ATM" commercial is intended to show men what financial discrimination feels like. The International Women's Media Foundation worked with Zürcher Frauenzentrale to translate the video into English from its original German.

After each withdrawal, customers received a receipt explaining the prank and assuring them that the missing 20 percent was still in their bank accounts.'

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If my bank did that to me or I found it had did it to others -- I would find a new bank!

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Submitted by canaryguy on Mon, 2013-04-15 02:16

Me too. The gender gap has been debunked so many times, we've all lost count.

I wouldn't want people that deficient when it comes to statistics and the real world handling my money. That's for sure.

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Submitted by xtrnl on Tue, 2013-04-16 19:17