Equal Pay Day: Times Pay Gaps Were Called Out In The Most Epic Ways Possible

The gender pay gap is a long prevalent issue that keeps popping up every time a woman calls it out or new data is released. What can be a more perfect day to discuss how far till women catch up with their male colleagues to get equally paid than on Equal Pay Day?

As per data shared by Payscale Inc., women have to work nearly 15 months to earn what men make in 12 months. Women earn about 82 cents for every dollar a man earns and it is even lower for black women with about 65 cents and for Latina women, it is about 60 cents. This adds up to a loss of $900,000 for women over a lifetime.

Woman Reapplies For Her Own Job After Seeing Job Posting For Higher Salary

Recently, a woman went viral on social media for reapplying for her own job role after she saw the job posting with a higher salary. “My company just listed on LinkedIn a job posting for what I’m currently doing (so we’re hiring another UX writer) and now thanks to salary transparency laws, I see that they intend to pay this person $32k-$90k more than they currently pay me, so I applied,” the 25-year-old Kimberly Nguyen tweeted.

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She further added, “I don’t want to hear one more peep out of them about diversity, equity, and inclusion. I don’t wanna see any more of our C-suite execs recommend books for women’s history month. There were tangible actions they could’ve taken and they chose to perform these values. No thank you.”

Talking about pay equity, she wrote, “I have also been arguing for months about the pay inequity. I have told my managers multiple times that I know I’m being underpaid. I have gotten the runaround, and they know they can do this right now in a tough labor market.”

Thanks to the recent enactment of a salary transparency law in New York, companies have started putting a pay range in their job postings. However, this is contributing to exposing the companies’ unequal pay policies as well like in this case.

Twitter Bot Calls Out Gender Pay Gap

In another incident, a Twitter bot created by Francesca Lawson and her partner Ali Fensome based in England called out companies regarding gender pay gap which tweeted about International Women’s Day. The Twitter handle, @PayGapApp, had seen a rise in followers from 2,000 followers to 1,20,000 followers by the end of March 8. The bio of the handle reads, “Employers, if you tweet about International Women’s Day, I’ll retweet your gender pay gap.”

In this organisation, women's median hourly pay is 8% lower than men's. The pay gap is 2 percentage points wider than the previous year. https://t.co/rJnZE4rDkx

— Gender Pay Gap Bot (@PayGapApp) March 14, 2023

One of the tweets against Infosys read, “In this organisation, women's median hourly pay is 0.7% lower than men's. The pay gap is 0.3 percentage points wider than the previous year.”

While another tweet in reply to The Body Shop UK read, “In this organisation, women's median hourly pay is 20.5% lower than men's. The pay gap is 14.8 percentage points wider than the previous year.”

Samantha Ruth Prabhu

In one of the latest incidents in India, actor Samantha Ruth Prabhu spoke about the gender pay gap in the Indian film industry on the popular chat show Koffee With Karan hosted by filmmaker Karan Johar. Though the actor has made it to the list of highest paid female actors in South India, she said on the show, that her pay per film is equal to that of Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar’s pay per day.

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Talking about their individual careers, Prabhu and Kumar mentioned their first salary as ₹500 and the latter was paid ₹5000 for two hours of shoot. Following which, Prabhu mentioned that her salary for one film is equal to that of Akshay’s pay per day. This statement stirred a conversation on the internet regarding the pay parity still evidently prevalent between female actors and male actors across all film industries.