gender wage gap
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This Is How You Use Your Privilege: How Jessica Chastain Helped Octavia Spencer Earn Her Worth
Golden Globe-winning actress Jessica Chastain is well-known as one of the most vocal women in Hollywood when it comes to demanding equity, insisting that she be paid on par with her male co-stars. As she told Newsweek in 2017: What I do now, when I’m taking on a film, I always ask about the fairness…
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I Guess Fair and Equal Treatment Only Matters if You Like the Person Asking for It. Yes, We’re Talking About Mo’Nique
I’m not a fan of Mo’Nique and never have been. I don’t have any disdain for her; she’s just not my brand of bourbon, if you catch my drift. If I got free tickets to see a show in person, I may go depending on what else I had going on that particular evening. I…
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Amy Schumer Is Delusional if She Thinks She’s in the Same League as Dave Chappelle or Chris Rock
Amy Schumer has a vagina. Amy Schumer talks about her vagina a lot. Amy Schumer also talks about her vagina smelling like farm animals. Amy Schumer talks about binge drinking and passing out. These are all of the things I learned while watching Schumer’s The Leather Special on Netflix. Schumer is also a white woman…
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Congratulations, Black Women! Today, You Finally Caught Up to White Men … Kinda
If the average black woman saved all her pay from 2016 and combined it with every penny she had earned through July 2017, the total would equal just what the average white man earned in 2016 alone. July 31 is Black Women’s Equal Pay Day. According to the Economic Policy Institute—a nonpartisan think tank focused…
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Fla. Education Official Says He Believes the Gender Wage Gap Is ‘Genetic’
A member of the Florida State University system board of governors said during a meeting Tuesday that the gender wage gap is caused by genetics, and not the systemic social and economic causes that continue to favor men over women in the workplace. The Daily Dot reports that board members were discussing pay discrepancy outside…