Campaigns, Posts, and Stories that Show the Stark Truth About Equal Pay

Yesterday was Equal Pay Day and the Internet was agog with information, stories…about the stark truth of the gender wage gap which unfortunately is still as wide and deep as a gulf.
In the words of Anna North of Vox Media
“…last year, the wage gap actually got slightly bigger. In 2018, women’s earnings were 81.1 percent of men’s, down from 81.8 percent in 2017, according to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR). The drop was especially pronounced for black women, whose earnings went from 67.7 percent of white men’s in 2017 to 65.3 percent in 2018; and Latina women, whose earnings dropped from 62.1 percent to 61.6 percent of white men’s. White women’s earnings dropped from 81.9 percent to 81.5 percent of white men’s.”

Today, we highlight campaigns, posts, and stories that show just how slow progress toward pay equity is and how crazy it is.

Gbemi Lolade Adekanmbi is the cultivator of For Creative Girls. She is a firm believer in the fact that there is no division between the ability for science and the ability for Art. Her goal is to cultivate this ability with as many people as possible and make creatives a living, breathing part of how the world, organisations, and societies run.