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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBakery 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.
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
Well you certainly make a convincing argument for completely disregarding civil rights law
Major Nikon
Apr 2016
#7
Wounded Bear
(58,440 posts)1. K & R ......
Way to support a good cause.
Major Nikon
(36,814 posts)2. Violating civil rights law in order to fight for civil rights. Brilliant!
shenmue
(38,502 posts)3. Aww, aren't you precious.
Major Nikon
(36,814 posts)5. Sure, those damn civil rights laws sure are pesky sometimes, aren't they?
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)6. Please graph for me
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.
Major Nikon
(36,814 posts)7. Well you certainly make a convincing argument for completely disregarding civil rights law
turbinetree
(24,632 posts)4. That is just Awesome....................................
hill2016
(1,772 posts)8. isn't this illegal?
somebody should sue them