“According to calculations from the Equal Payback Project, American women are owed $29,811,746,430,000 (that’s U.S. dollars, also known as U.S. golden dollars with Sacagawea on them) due to the wage gap.
Working female Sarah Silverman is fund-raising for this exact amount. She promises that if this fund-raising goal is met, each woman in America will receive a check. If not, the money will go the National Women’s Law Center, which advocates for legal and structural changes to support professional women. They’re only trillions dollars away from removing this gap off the list of gaps facing women today.”
— “Sarah Silverman Is Fund-raising 29 Trillion Dollars,” Maggie Lange, New York Magazine
More:
“Sarah Silverman creates provocative new video on women’s salaries and ‘the $500,000 vagina tax,'” Siri Srinivas, The Guardian
“Everything you need to know about the gender wage gap,” Danielle Kurtzleben, Vox
“Pay Equity & Discrimination,” Institute for Women’s Policy Research.
Video after the jump (NSFW, of course, it’s Sarah Silverman.)
Updates:
“Microsoft CEO Opens Mouth, Inserts Foot On Gender Pay Gap,” Alex Wilhelm, TechCrunch
“A radical fix to the world’s wage gap: why not just pay women more – and pay men less?” Jessica Valenti, The Guardian
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