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Tab

(11,093 posts)
Sat Apr 16, 2016, 11:43 AM Apr 2016

Bakery charges women 79 cents on a dollar for Equal Pay Day

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - A New England bakery chain is charging female customers 79 cents on the dollar to illustrate the pay gap between men and women.

The Works Bakery Cafe is offering the discount Tuesday to women in its New Hampshire shops in honor of Equal Pay Day. Men are charged full price.

Equal Pay Day is a national symbolic event dramatizing how much longer it takes a woman to earn as much as a man.

Chain CEO Richard French says the Stand with Women campaign asked them to take part in the event. French says his company employs a lot of women, and they are paid the same as men.

French says hundreds of women came to each of the shops for the discount.

http://www.wcax.com/story/31705438/bakery-charges-women-79-cents-on-a-dollar-for-equal-pay-day


Well, I guess that's another way to fight it! Good for them.
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Bakery charges women 79 cents on a dollar for Equal Pay Day (Original Post) Tab Apr 2016 OP
K & R ...... Wounded Bear Apr 2016 #1
Violating civil rights law in order to fight for civil rights. Brilliant! Major Nikon Apr 2016 #2
Aww, aren't you precious. shenmue Apr 2016 #3
Sure, those damn civil rights laws sure are pesky sometimes, aren't they? Major Nikon Apr 2016 #5
Please graph for me BlancheSplanchnik Apr 2016 #6
Well you certainly make a convincing argument for completely disregarding civil rights law Major Nikon Apr 2016 #7
That is just Awesome.................................... turbinetree Apr 2016 #4
isn't this illegal? hill2016 Apr 2016 #8

BlancheSplanchnik

(20,219 posts)
6. Please graph for me
Sat Apr 16, 2016, 02:25 PM
Apr 2016

The demographic, duration and Intensity of harm done, of the two sufferings: the Civil Rights violation on that day at that bakery...

compared to the Gender Based Pay Discrimination that violates Women's Civil and Human rights, every day, everywhere, since the dawn of Labor.


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