By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 10 years ago

Photo of the Day: “Women: Like men, only cheaper.”

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This “Women: Like men, only cheaper” image should look familiar–we’ve sarcastically used to “celebrate” Equal Pay Day in the past. But an Australian tech executive was all-too-serious when he included it as a slide during his talk at a tech conference recently. Evan Thornleye explained how “forward-thinking” people such as himself can take advantage of the wage gap by hiring qualified women “for relatively cheap.” 

But don’t worry–he later apologized, claiming he does “what [he] can to combat” gender inequality in tech and acknowledged that “others may find it a good decision for their business to hire talented women and pay them properly rather than hire less talented men and over-pay them.” I guess it’s just that he personally has found that hiring talented women and paying them improperly happens to work out pretty damn swell for him. Whodathunkit!

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Chart of the Day: The pay gap narrows by one whole percentage point
Chart of the Day: The pay gap for women of color
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Maya DusenberyMaya Dusenbery is an Executive Director of Feministing.

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Maya Dusenbery is executive director in charge of editorial at Feministing. She is the author of the forthcoming book Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick (HarperOne, March 2018). She has been a fellow at Mother Jones magazine and a columnist at Pacific Standard magazine. Her work has appeared in publications like Cosmopolitan.com, TheAtlantic.com, Bitch Magazine, as well as the anthology The Feminist Utopia Project. Before become a full-time journalist, she worked at the National Institute for Reproductive Health. A Minnesota native, she received her B.A. from Carleton College in 2008. After living in Brooklyn, Oakland, and Atlanta, she is currently based in the Twin Cities.

Maya Dusenbery is an executive director of Feministing and author of the forthcoming book Doing Harm on sexism in medicine.

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