High Schoolers Charged Men More At A Bake Sale To Highlight The Gender Pay Gap

Typical Democrats (even teaching the falsehoods to their young), this pay equity thing has been proved long ago to be false when you adjust for equal jobs and experience. There have been laws on the books for equal pay for many years but this ignored in the push to make women look like victims and "war on women" a rallying cry.

what a crock of poop. There are so many factors at work other than gender that causes the wage gap to occur.

Celebrate gender equality by being unequal? I guess they don't teach what the word "equality" means anymore.

I was involved in Student Council during High School and planned/organized many club fundraisers in both HS and College. I am a man. I like baking (I also like eating baked goods, but that's another story). Eggs, flour, sugar and butter in different amounts baked at different times and temperatures was simple enough for my slower-developing youthful-boy-brain. I was one of the most prominent bakers among my peers and contributed a majority of all the baked goods at our fundraisers: Muffins, brownies, cupcakes, cinnamon rolls, cookies, banana bread--I ate...uh...baked them all.

If any of my baked goods were used like this, I would take them away from the fundraiser. After consuming half for myself, I would probably give the rest out to the group being discriminated against. I strongly doubt there was a male student who did any baking for this "Gender Equality" sale. This is blatant sexism masking itself as social justice. This group is contributing more to gender discrimination than the males they are targeting. I cannot believe this got past both the student council and their advisor(s).

The boys should sue under Title IX. It be real funny when the school had to pay a big fine

There is widespread misunderstanding about the so-called income gap. The statistics used today are misleading to exaggerate this effect for political purposes.

There is also an important omission - most of the money in households is spent BY women. In other words, women have final say over far more of the expenditure of a typical household's resources than men in North America. This is a little-discussed double standard that should be brought to light.

The 77 cents figure is a perfect example of lying with statistics. The figure itself, of course, is accurate. Attributing the entire disparity to sexism, however, requires a huge and unjustified leap.

Let me give you an illustration that puts this in perspective. American women are, on average, 63.8 inches tall. American men are 69.3 inches tall. Now the leap: "we know that starvation can cause short stature so, obviously, Americans systematically starve their women!" This is obviously ridiculous, right? It takes a true figure and then attributes it to an untrue cause.

It is just as ridiculous to take the 77 cents number and claiming that it is *entirely* due to sexism. Indeed, it is obviously dishonest to say that women's life choices don't impact their economic earning power. And, in this instance, the "Young Democrats Club" is being encouraged to be dishonest (no other word for it) in the service of political agitprop.

Now, women may well suffer due to sexism. When serious economists attempt to factor out life choices (e.g. career breaks for children, choice of fields, etc.), there is a 6% difference in income that remains. I might buy that sexism accounts for some or even all of this difference. The problem for people like the adults that inspired these girls to run this "bake sale" is that the honest figure simply isn't as sexy or attention-grabbing as the dishonest one.

Woo! Go JHS (and the young dems club). So glad to see my high school in the news for a good cause.

If the wage gap is true, why would any business hire a man when they can get a woman cheaper?
Oh, and this bake sale is a ridiculous display of how schools have indoctrinated women with propaganda designed to chip away at whatever self-confidence they had growing up. Have you done a study on the number of women on anti-depressants and anti-anxiety medications lately?

While I was at UC Berkeley, the college republicans held a racial bake sale where whites paid full price and minorities and women were discounted. They were trying to suggest that Affirmative Action type policies are white discrimination and they just wanted "equality".

I told them that Affirmative Action type public policies in California were banned in the 90's by the public. Since then, any financial privilege offered to minorities is through private funds only. They tried their hardest to discount this fact, but failed. I could have went further, and explained the massive amount of studies on inherent majority privilege, but felt they really just wanted attention to feed their ignorance. So I made sure to ignore them after that.