Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Equal Pay for Equal Work: The Need for the ERA in the Arts
HowlRound: As a proud feminist, I have a somewhat embarrassing confession to make: until very recently, I had never attended a consciousness-raising session. Despite having read avidly about the second-wave movement participants’ habit of gathering to talk about the issues affecting their lives, I had not participated in one myself until attending the Percolating Gender Parity symposium organized and hosted by the Women in the Arts & Media Coalition that was held December 3, 2015.
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Gender equality in the workplace. You think this would not be a big issue. But no. It just has to be. And I think the author makes a good explication of the paradox women seem to be trapped in with her statement of “To create art, women need time, and to have time, they need money”. Without the adequate resources from the start, no real progress can be made, and typically the progress that is made by these women would be immediately considered redundant or unnecessary on the male side of things – so without it being seen as universal progress, can it really even be seen as progress at all? Talking about disparities in gender equality really grinds my gears because to be a person, don’t you have to respect and treat others fairly? And aren’t we living in an accomplishment based system of merits with checks and balances? And why would those checks and balances be determined by gender in the first place?
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