Comments on: Until we have equal pay, we have Equal Pay Day

By: PhDork

PhDork — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 22:53:34 +0000

What a sad excuse for a human. Not because he does porn (whatever), but why he does it. I Fuck, Therefore I Am Man.

And I am all for ruining every possible field with girl cooties.

By: BeckySharper

BeckySharper — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 14:13:38 +0000

@AmBam: That is BRILLIANT.

By: AmBam

AmBam — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 14:12:21 +0000

A few years ago I got the FML at Penn State to combine the two significances of the date by having a Wage Gap Bake Sale – baked goods sold to women for 75cents and men for a dollar. This is not allowed on campus because it’s discriminatory. The next year we had it outside of Sam’s Club – until the manager read our literature and kicked us off the property. Good times.

By: baraqiel

baraqiel — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:01:03 +0000

@PhD – Maybe that’s the way to eliminate the wage gap: ruin every field we possibly can.

On that note, for that porn paper I’m doing, I found a quote by some male porn star saying that fucking people on camera was the ultimate expression of masculinity because it was “the last” thing that women couldn’t do and had to approximate.

By: PhDork

PhDork — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 03:18:13 +0000

baraqiel, we ruined the humanities in the 70s.

By: BeckySharper

BeckySharper — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 23:14:41 +0000

@mischiefmanager: That’s certainly what’s happened in the mainline Protestant denominations. The majority of Methodist, Presbyterian and Episcopal seminarians are now women, and compared to previous generations, Protestant clergy is less of an authority job and more of a social work kind of job. But you could also make the argument that the reason that the clergy opened to women in the first place is that it was already undergoing a fundamental status change that made the previously unthinkable seem less threatening.

That doesn’t bother me much, though. I don’t like the authoritarian approach to religion, and I wouldn’t want women clergy to be remote, rigid or autocratic, as male clergy have traditionally been. The less of that the better, no matter who’s in the pulpit.

By: mischiefmanager

mischiefmanager — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 22:51:54 +0000

I think something like what baraqiel is describing is happening with the rabbinate. I don’t know for sure about pay scales, but I do know that as numbers of women in yeshiva increase, the status of rabbis is changing. It’s not so much that it’s a lower status as that the aura surrounding the position is less. There’s no winning.

By: BeckySharper

BeckySharper — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 22:17:39 +0000

Thank you! Judging from that link, it would appear that everyone on earth knows this but me.

By: PhDork

PhDork — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:09:15 +0000

Becky: 420.

By: BeckySharper

BeckySharper — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 20:50:42 +0000

If you’re in a position of power in your business, you can lead the way by auditing your company’s policies and pay rates to see if (IF?) there are significant inequities. You can share your knowledge with your colleagues, your friends and families

I’m a big fan of this. Salaries are rarely protected by non-disclosure agreements, and while companies openly discourage people from discussing what they’re paid, there’s almost never an actual legal bar to discussing or asking about salaries. Women should talk openly and frequently about what they’re paid, what they know about others’ salaries, and do some investigation about what’s standard in their business. I like http://www.glassdoor.com for research of this kind.

And…uh…I’m kinda sheltered and all. Can someone tell me what 4-20 is and save me a trip to Google? Thx.