Posted on 04/12/2016 12:46:25 PM PDT by simpson96
Women of New Hampshire: Youre in luck.
April 14 is Equal Pay Day a day devoted to raising awareness of the pay gap between men and women and one restaurant is making efforts to narrow the disparity. In response to the troubling statistic that women earn just 79 cents to every dollar a man earns, a New Hampshire restaurant called The Works is only charging women 79 cents to the dollar, or 79% of their total bills. (Men will pay full price.)
New Hampshire Public Radio reports that women who visit the chains locations in Concord, Keene, Portsmouth and Durham today will receive this cheeky 21% discount.
Its been a problem thats been around for a really long time, decades I would say, Don Brueggemann, manager of The Works in Concord, told NHPR. And I think many of us thought it would kind of work itself out but it has been very persistent over the years. Were feeling like this is a way to highlight that issue.
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Shouldn’t they do a means test first? Why should a top-level female lawyer or doctor making $250,000.00 a year get the same discount as a poor woman who works a cash register in Walmart?
That 79% is bogus. I have read that number for decades.
Whenever my wife starts grousing about women being paid 30% less than a man, I always ask her if this were true, why is there any unemployment amongst women at all. After all, if a company can reduce its payroll by 30%...
I smell a LAWSUIT for Sexual Discrimination.
I can’t find any place in the Constitution that authorizes the feds to impose “civil rights laws” that override the right to own private property.
If you believe there is, or should be, you are an enabler of the Left.
Oh, really?
LOL
The whole pay disparity thing is a load of hogwash debunked many times. Yet liberals, as usual, continue to demagogue the issue.
The male employees should leave when 79% of their shift is done - like my female “co-workers”...
“I cant find any place in the Constitution that authorizes the feds to impose civil rights laws that override the right to own private property.”
That may be true, but just because the government has no authority to pass a law doesn’t mean they won’t do so and enforce it anyway.
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