#wage parity

[paulborst]

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[elizabethkoenig]

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[lucifer11morningstar]

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[mizstorge]

I need feminism because...

...of the boss who, when I asked for a raise, said, “But you’re married! You don’t need to support yourself! It’s just fun money for you, right?”

I reminded him, in a shaking voice, that I had earned a Bachelor’s degree, I had attended two further years of classes to train for my career, I was a certified medical professional, and that I attended continuing education each year to maintain my certification. I informed him that not only was my income absolutely needed to support my family, but that I deserved fair compensation for the knowledge, skills and high standards that allowed the physicians in the practice to see more patients a day than they could possibly manage to do on their own.

His expression said he’d just learned that the earth wasn’t flat.

Not only did I get the raise after this conversation, I was offered more opportunity for advancement, and treated with greater respect.

[the-moons-kind-regards]

Equal Pay Day

Equal Pay Day demonstrates how far into the year women must work to earn what men earned in the previous year; some people will even make the distinction that this is only true for white women (who make 79cents ~ hey look it went up two pennies ~) because women of color make even less money per male dollar.

We know that because of the gender wage gap, women will make less in their lifetime than men. What’s interesting is that, technically speaking, for Equal Pay Day to be accurate (and for arguments sake, I’ll stick with the 79 cent figure), every man’s financial-year would begin on 1 January, but a woman’s financial-year (to be equivalent) would have to begin every Equal Pay Day which in turn would be pushed back several months each year. [In other words, each financial year for a woman’s pay to be equal to a man’s would increase to cover the net loss of pay.]

Imagine two people with the same job and they both started working at the beginning of January this year. One of them is a man, and the other a woman, and their incomes adhere to that 79/100 statistic. On 31 December, the man will have made (again, for the sake of argument) $30,000. The woman has made only $23,700 ($1,975/month) and must work until next April to make up the gap. Meanwhile, her male counterpart has continued to work, increasing that gap in total income.

So in these four additional months, the male worker in this scenario has made $2,500/month or $10,000. The woman has made only $6,300 which covered the difference from the previous year, but she has now been paid $10,000 less than him for this year. Given our $23,700/year figure, it will take her from April to April (one calendar year) and then until September (an additional 5 months) just to cover that difference. And the cycle repeats into the third year, because now, the male in this scenario has been earning his $2,500/month since January (for a total $22,500) and the woman has only just caught up with his earnings from the 2nd year. And this is assuming neither of them has had a raise since they were hired.

It it’s just about looking at a single year. It’s how many more years women have to work to make up for the wage gap.

[womenask]

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