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11/10/2007: "White men pay more at bake sale"

Imagine going to McDonald's and hearing that, because you're a white male, you pay full price for a Big Mac. Meanwhile, the girl behind you pays three-quarters of the total amount for the same thing.

NOW (National Organization for Women) @ SDSU brought that reality to San Diego State yesterday at the Aztec Center by holding a pay equity bake sale. The prices for cookies reflected the difference of pay between genders and races.

"A lot of people don't realize that white women make 75 percent of every dollar a white man makes or Hispanic women make 50 percent. It's pretty ridiculous. When they actually have to buy the cookies, it puts it into perspective."

[ There is no way you can compare salaries without comparing the exact same jobs, responsibilities and workloads, which cannot occur because the individual people define such things. The "75%" figure is inflated and unrealistic, but we all know that this bake sale is an attempt at revenge by impotent, bitter people. ]

http://media.www.thedailyaztec.com/media/storage/paper741/news/2007/11/07/City/Men-Pay.More-3083314.shtml