For a movement meant to smash the patriarchy, Equal Pay Day shares one of its worst habits-the apparent inability to listen to actual women.
Equal Pay Day is a PR holiday established in 1996 by the National Committee on Pay Equity to highlight the "Gender pay gap." Today is Equal Pay Day, signifying "The date women must work full time up until to make the same amount that men made working full time the year prior."
The National Committee on Pay Equity, whose website design alone may set women back several decades no matter how much work they do, admits it picked a date in April to roughly symbolize how far into the new year women might have to work to make up the so-called gender pay gap.
At worst, it's an intentional misrepresentation of a phenomenon that almost completely ignores the choices, wishes, and motivations of women in the workplace.
Equal Pay Day uses the Department of Labor's "Median earnings of all full-time working women and all full-time working men" to determine the pay gap.
It's simply the ratio of women's average hourly pay to men's average hourly pay.
That's because making the workplace work for women requires listening to women about what they want in a workplace.
http://thefederalist.com/2018/04/10/equal-pay-day-hype-ignores-the-facts-and-womens-feelings-about-the-workplace/
Equal Pay Day is a PR holiday established in 1996 by the National Committee on Pay Equity to highlight the "Gender pay gap." Today is Equal Pay Day, signifying "The date women must work full time up until to make the same amount that men made working full time the year prior."
The National Committee on Pay Equity, whose website design alone may set women back several decades no matter how much work they do, admits it picked a date in April to roughly symbolize how far into the new year women might have to work to make up the so-called gender pay gap.
At worst, it's an intentional misrepresentation of a phenomenon that almost completely ignores the choices, wishes, and motivations of women in the workplace.
Equal Pay Day uses the Department of Labor's "Median earnings of all full-time working women and all full-time working men" to determine the pay gap.
It's simply the ratio of women's average hourly pay to men's average hourly pay.
That's because making the workplace work for women requires listening to women about what they want in a workplace.
http://thefederalist.com/2018/04/10/equal-pay-day-hype-ignores-the-facts-and-womens-feelings-about-the-workplace/
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