Black Women Equal Pay Day!
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Imagine how much Oprah would be worth if she wasn’t a black woman…
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Pay gaps exist for a reason. And it’s not because you sit or stand to pee, or how much melanin your skin has.
@89th said in Black Women Equal Pay Day!:
Pay gaps exist for a reason. And it’s not because you sit or stand to pee, or how much melanin your skin has.
My hot take is that it would be insulting for me to get equal pay. There's no one way for me to do things, and my process, technical skills, collaboration skills, and background knowledge are completely different from any one of my co-workers. Paying us all the same would be to say that all of that is irrelevant. Well, fuck that. Pay me more than the people who suck. And let me work with the folks who get paid more to either learn from them or learn that my workplace is pathological so I can walk.
Please love yourself.
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The pay gap statistics don't compare different people in the same job. They are averages for people in one group, regardless of job, compared to people in another group. Competence at any given job never comes into it. The pay gap statistics remain the most disingenuous messaging the left offers. It's actually surprising how dumb it is, yet still with amazing staying power. It's been a centerpiece pop culture political statistic for many decades now. Usually just male vs female, but sure, you can do black female vs whatever too.
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The pay gap statistics don't compare different people in the same job. They are averages for people in one group, regardless of job, compared to people in another group. Competence at any given job never comes into it. The pay gap statistics remain the most disingenuous messaging the left offers. It's actually surprising how dumb it is, yet still with amazing staying power. It's been a centerpiece pop culture political statistic for many decades now. Usually just male vs female, but sure, you can do black female vs whatever too.
@Horace said in Black Women Equal Pay Day!:
The pay gap statistics don't compare different people in the same job. They are averages for people in one group, regardless of job, compared to people in another group. Competence at any given job never comes into it. The pay gap statistics remain the most disingenuous messaging the left offers. It's actually surprising how dumb it is, yet still with amazing staying power. It's been a centerpiece pop culture political statistic for many decades now. Usually just male vs female, but sure, you can do black female vs whatever too.
The concept of a statistical average was "discovered" as a tool that might be valuable after Calculus. Stats are powerful tools but it's not at all a natural way for us to internalize information.
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@89th said in Black Women Equal Pay Day!:
Pay gaps exist for a reason. And it’s not because you sit or stand to pee, or how much melanin your skin has.
My hot take is that it would be insulting for me to get equal pay. There's no one way for me to do things, and my process, technical skills, collaboration skills, and background knowledge are completely different from any one of my co-workers. Paying us all the same would be to say that all of that is irrelevant. Well, fuck that. Pay me more than the people who suck. And let me work with the folks who get paid more to either learn from them or learn that my workplace is pathological so I can walk.
@Aqua-Letifer said in Black Women Equal Pay Day!:
@89th said in Black Women Equal Pay Day!:
Pay gaps exist for a reason. And it’s not because you sit or stand to pee, or how much melanin your skin has.
My hot take is that it would be insulting for me to get equal pay. There's no one way for me to do things, and my process, technical skills, collaboration skills, and background knowledge are completely different from any one of my co-workers. Paying us all the same would be to say that all of that is irrelevant. Well, fuck that. Pay me more than the people who suck. And let me work with the folks who get paid more to either learn from them or learn that my workplace is pathological so I can walk.
QFT
