Imagine being promised doughnuts in exchange for your services. Instead, you receive one doughnut hole while others doing the same job get actual doughnuts.
In this day and time, it’s hard to believe that there are still women who aren’t getting paid as much as men doing the same job.
National Equal Pay Day illustrates the gap between the pay of men and women - the day marks how far into the new year women have to work earn the same amount as a man did the previous year.
One average, women make 78 cents for every doll that a man earns.
U.S. Dept. of Labor Women’s Bureau April 2015
UMKC Women’s Center hosted a National Equal Pay Day Information Table - partnering with UMKC Career Services, the Women’s Bureau Department of Labor and the American Association of University Women (AAUW).
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From the 9 a.m. to 11 a.m., the event offered data and trivia on the gender pay gap. Free doughnuts and doughnut holes were provided and used as a tasty representation of how when completing all the information at the table.
Not everyone was given an equal treat, with men getting doughnut holes.
“It’s really important that people are still aware that women aren’t making the same amount of money as men are when they are doing equal work,” said Arzie Umali, assistant director of the Women’s Center at UMKC. “So we just want to emphasis that the gender pay gap is real and that women need to start making the same amount of money as men.”
“I learned a lot from this event. I’m glad I stopped by,” said UMKC student Cecily Williams. “It’s really inspirational that an organization that is helping college students be aware of this."
Cecily Williams, student at UMKC, getting information on equal pay.
”To really look on it, it’s really unfair, she said. “Like, 'Hey, I do the same work as he does so I [should] earn the same pay.'”
For more information about organizations at the event, visit their websites:
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