Posts Tagged Wage Gap

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By Meg Sri • 7 years ago

U.S. Men’s Soccer Proves That Mediocre Men Will Still Earn More Than Successful Women

Last week, the United States’ men’s soccer team lost 2-1 in a World Cup Qualifier to Trinidad and Tobago, the only team below them in the group standings, sending them crashing out of the Men’s World Cup for the first time since 1986 in what some are calling “the worst loss in the history of U.S. Men’s Soccer.” It seems a good a time as any to remember that it was only in April this year that the U.S. women’s too, lost an important fight: the battle to gain equal pay with the men’s team.

Last week, the United States’ men’s soccer team lost 2-1 in a World Cup Qualifier to Trinidad and Tobago, the only team below them in the group standings, sending them crashing out of the Men’s World Cup for ...

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By Jos Truitt • 8 years ago

It’s Equal Pay Day for cisgender white women

April 12 is officially Equal Pay Day, which we “celebrate” (all the scare quotes) women as a group finally catching up to what men as a group earned in the previous year (technically the precise date for 2016 is April 8).

April 12 is officially Equal Pay Day, which we “celebrate” (all the scare quotes) women as a group finally catching up to what men as a group earned in the previous year (technically the precise date for ...
By Alexandra Brodsky • 9 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

Kate Harding on Brownmiller: “Their mothers and grandmothers taught the country that rape is a crime of power. . . With that important groundwork established, young people now have different lessons to teach the rest of us.”

Kate Harding on Brownmiller: “Their mothers and grandmothers taught the country that rape is a crime of power. . . With that important groundwork established, young people now have different lessons to teach the rest of ...

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By Chloe Angyal • 9 years ago

Today is Black women’s Equal Pay Day

Because Black women earn 64 percent of what white men earn for doing the same work, it would take the average Black woman an extra seven months of work to earn what a white man in their job earns in a year. Today is the day she hits that number. 

Because Black women earn 64 percent of what white men earn for doing the same work, it would take the average Black woman an extra seven months of work to earn what a white man ...
By Maya Dusenbery • 10 years ago

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

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.” 

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 ...
By Maya Dusenbery • 10 years ago

Daily Feminist Cheat Sheet

A new video series honors today’s queer black visionaries.

Brittney Cooper on Iggy Azalea’s post-racial mess.

“Tri-tongued orator” Jamila Lyiscott unpacks what it means to be “articulate.”

Reminder: you have the right to discuss your compensation with your coworkers. And you should because pay secrecy contributes to the gender wage gap.

A photo essay documents the long journey to get an abortion if you live in Texas’s Rio Grande Valley.

 

A new video series honors today’s queer black visionaries.

Brittney Cooper on Iggy Azalea’s post-racial mess.

“Tri-tongued orator” Jamila Lyiscott unpacks what it means to be “articulate.”

Reminder: you have the right to discuss ...
By Katie Halper • 10 years ago

GOP candidate claims she can’t be fighting a war on women because she’s…a woman

In a hilarious painfully awkward campaign ad, Michigan senate candidate Terri Lynn Land argues that her simultaneous female and Republican identities disprove the claim that she’s engaged in a “war on women.” But her whole opposition to the equal pay thing reveals that she is definitely a soldier and she’s definitely not fighting for equality.

In a hilarious painfully awkward campaign ad, Michigan senate candidate Terri Lynn Land argues that her simultaneous female and Republican identities disprove the claim that she’s engaged in a “war on women.” But her whole ...

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