"Women served equal pay"; Published by: Herizons, Inc. June 7, 2007; Journal article-ISSN: 0711-7485
"Thirty-nine years after the British Wimbledon tennis tournament became a professional event, women's singles players now receive prize money equal to that of their male counterparts.
Women's tennis champions, including Venus Williams and Maria Sharapova, began speaking out for equal pay and won the support of British Prime Minister Tony Blair and even the curmudgeonly former Wimbledon champ John McEnroe."
This to me is absolutely crazy! I honestly never even put two and two together thinking that equal pay had not yet reached celebrities' heights! And yet, as we speak, there are actors getting paid much more than actresses; male sports players are getting paid more than female players; the list, I'm sure goes on. When I thought about equal pay and putting a stop to pay discrimination in the workplace, I thought of women of the same status as myself and below. It kind of makes the problem seem more real than what I saw it before. Don't get me wrong, I knew it was a problem of our society, but it hits home to know that even women we see as strong and quite powerful-women that are looked up to-are being paid less than men doing the same exact thing as them! It is just crazy how whacked up our society and the world still is when it comes to men vs. women. Something needs to be done. The whole "Equal Pay Rule" doesn't seem to be doing its job whatsoever. Ugh, it is just extremely, extremely frustrating; especially when it feels like there seems to be nothing you can do to help stop it...
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Unequal pay has always been a problem between the sexes. Women make like seventy some cents for every dollar men make. Even in the world of celebrities it is still stratified, which is something I never really considered. Reading your post reminded me of a poster which states “Oh, so that explains the difference in our salaries!” It shows two babies peaking into their diapers. On the topic of salaries and jobs, I am reminded of the images of the “glass ceiling” and the “glass escalator.” A ceiling which prevents women from attaining highly professional jobs because they are seen as unfit and an escalator which aids men in their job search because they are unique.
Here is the link for the poster if you're interested: http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/f/images/feminis_difference_lg.jpg
I think this article is an excellent example of how wide-spread the inequality in the workplace is. I like that you point out how even those who seem to have reached the heights of power are still somehow not making the equivalent of their male counterparts. This might be explainable (though still not justified) when one examines a sport where revenue influences salaries (like basketball) but not in a sport where prize money is the salary and more women tennis players have endorsements (an indication of celebrity, influence, and drawing power in terms of fans and revenue for the sport) than men. Very telling...
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