Posted on 11/10/2007 1:45:42 PM PST by DeweyCA
NOW @ SDSU's bake sale charges men more for the same goods
Imagine going to McDonald's and hearing that, because you're a white male, you pay full price for a Big Mac. Meanwhile, the girl behind you pays three-quarters of the total amount for the same thing.
NOW (National Organization for Women) @ SDSU brought that reality to San Diego State yesterday at the Aztec Center by holding a pay equity bake sale. The prices for cookies reflected the difference of pay between genders and races.
"It's just to raise awareness," NOW @ SDSU Co-President Amanda Whitehead said. "A lot of people don't realize that white women make 75 percent of every dollar a white man makes or Hispanic women make 50 percent. It's pretty ridiculous. When they actually have to buy the cookies, it puts it into perspective."
White men, of whom NOW @ SDSU says make the most money of any demographic, were charged a dollar for the same cookie a Hispanic woman would pay 50 cents for. The group broke down the prices for white, Hispanic, black and Asian men and women, using pay scale statistics from NOW and www.payequity.org.
"It's a more unique way of showing the differences without just showing the statistics all the time," NOW @ SDSU Co-President Ashley Frazier said.
This was a creative way for NOW @ SDSU to present students and faculty with the facts, but some people didn't like the way the cookie crumbled.
Finance and statistics senior Adam Hyman passed out free doughnuts to men only after seeing the bake sale, disbelieving in the point NOW @ SDSU was trying to make. "I feel that America isn't anti-minority (or) anti-woman," Hyman said. "(I did this) to prove a point that if a woman were really getting paid 75 percent of what a man is, they could just quit their job and go work for somebody else.
"If this discrimination was real, then a company that only hires women would be better at business."
Oops, “Prostitutes”
Funny, when college Republicans try this stunt, the liberals fly into a rage and start throwing the cookies around.
Ot “totally unique.” That’s one of my favorites. Shows up surprisingly often.
Women make 75% of what men make??
Then why do I always have to pay the woman’s way when on a date?!!?!?!???!?!!
From now on she pays 75% of her own way.
Perfectly plausible. Corporations have unlimited funds for bribery, pay-offs to CEOs, and to support crime. Where have you been?
In the 60's, WE were supposedly the angry, non-creative ones.
AND "N.O.W." THEY ARE.
women who do NOT take time off from their careers for children, receive nearly identical pay as the men in the same professionsExactly. There already is equal pay for equal experience and education levels. Anyone claiming otherwise is an outright liar.
I think she meant, "more eunich".
that’s right.
and, as warren farrell points out in “the myth of male power”,
men work longer hours than do women.
Several. Here is a pretty good editorial about it from of all places!
http://www.ifeminists.net/introduction/editorials/2003/1216fire.html
I wonder what would happen if they charged black men more than white men?
Now in the real PC world of today, men simply would stop buying the damn cookies and the businesses would cry, the women would cry as the bakery upped its prices, and the government would raise taxes on everyone to redistribute ‘cookie pork’ back to the ailing bakery industry.
Many men would pay more anyways.
“Honey, can you lend me 75 cents?”
Excellent points you both bring up. They never factor in that you don’t get promotions while on maternity leave. Your career is on hold because you aren’t at the office working. Duh.
I’m quite sure that, unless a guy was trying to get in the pants of one of the girls involved in the bake sale, he went somewhere else to satisfy his sweet tooth.
The source isn’t surprising at all, actually. That’s a libertarian feminist website - i.e. they actually believe in gender equality, and not anti-male bigotry as one would expect from most forms of feminism.
The chains should be long enough to reach the piano so she can enteratin my FRiends, too...
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