UK: Outrage at Feminist Week bake sale plan to charge men more than women for cupcakes to highlight gender salary gap

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'A bake sale at a university feminist week has caused outrage due to its plans to price items based upon the pay gap between men and women.

The University of Queensland Union is holding Feminist Week from April 4-8 and at the associated Gender Pay Gap Bake Sale on Tuesday, items will cost a proportion of a dollar compared to men who will pay $1 for each item.

A website for the event states: 'For example, if you are a woman of colour in the legal profession, a baked good at the stall will only cost you 0.55 cents!'.
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'I get pretty frustrated when I hear people saying 'What about the men, isn't that discriminatory, isn't it reverse-sexism?,' she said.

'Many men generally speaking have the extra pay as an unearned privilege while women are disadvantaged and people of colour are disadvantaged and minority groups and people who don't conform to binary genders are disadvantaged.

UQU women's officer Madeline Price helped organise the Feminist Week and said the about of anger about the issue was interesting.'

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It sure is nice to see feminists being called out on their own bigotry. Developments like this make me think that maybe humanity isn't completely screwed.

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