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A London based company has finally found a way to tackle the gender pay gap problem. This news comes as a ray of hope for women, struggling to get equal wages for equal work. Watch this video.
Brainlabs, a marketing agency based in London, has voted to eliminate the overall gender pay gap by increasing women’s pay by 8.6%. They are calling it as the Pay Gap Tax. All the female employees working in the company, regardless of performance or position will reap the benefits of this.
Sophie Newton, Director of Brainslab, took this apposite measure to solve the deeper issues that are at the heart of gender equality and diversity in the workplace. Since none of the male employees have protested against this measure, the director assumed that they would not find it unfair.
The gender pay problem finds its genesis in the sexist mindsets that employers carry. They often assume women to be less intellectual than men. Therefore, they doubt a woman’s expertise in performing a task and in return, pay her less. Some, on the other hand, assume women to be less productive during those few days of the month when she menstruates, or penalise women for taking a break for maternity or motherhood.
The reasons cited are strategic ways entrenched in patriarchy, to thwart women from getting their due. Brainlabs, on the other hand, deserves a lot of appreciation for pioneering the movement for helping women get their due.
Other established companies must take a leaf out of their book and devise innovative methods to stamp out the traces of gender inequality at work.
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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