The video is part of the new Ask4More campaign, which sees Silverman partnering up with Levo, a community oriented towards helping women achieve their career goals and encouraging women to ask for proper compensation for their work.
Tuesday, April 07, 2015
Watch: Sarah Silverman Speak Out on Equal Pay and Why We
The video is part of the new Ask4More campaign, which sees Silverman partnering up with Levo, a community oriented towards helping women achieve their career goals and encouraging women to ask for proper compensation for their work.
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When I first read this article and not watching the video the first thought that came to mind is that if women and men get equal pay as a law in our country, we feel that man may put less effort because they assume that they don't need to work as hard because of there equal pay. But I totally agree with what Sarah Silverman is saying. He catch phrase in this video, "We don't get what we want. We get what we think we deserve." This statement is so true. And I am a very committed and ambitious person that if I have to work harder to get what I want then I will. Do I think it's right? Of course not... People she get the job they deserve, not a job because of their race, age, citizenship, or gender. Even right now with finding internships. Some people have been looking right over applicants because of what they look like and not because of what they can do. It just sucks to know we still live in this crazy world where nothing is far. And even though the US is a comes across as land of the free and home of the brave, we are the most judgmental out of all the countries. We've created a society where perfect is like 80%... when we really should broaden our thoughts and feeling about the abilities and talents surrounding us.
Silverman makes a really effective argument in understanding why the struggle to fight against inequality between the sexes can sometimes be so difficult. Someone once told me that an approximate even number of women and men have interest in careers like engineering and math, yet a dominate amount of men over women finish their degrees and actually move on to become engineers and mathematicians. The cause? Women, in high school and college, are more likely than men to drop classes, switch majors, or stop caring or liking a subject after a repeat instance of bad grades. It all stems from Silverman's example about playing basketball. One miss, to most women, seems like one hundred. We've got to start teaching ourselves the same self-confidence that men are born with to equalize the playing fields. We're only doing a disservice to our talents if we cannot climb over the hurdle we have set up for ourselves.
Buzzfeed, although being known for being a pretty ditzy website, did a great spoof video on women only doing the 78% of their job as opposed to their male counterparts. In the issue of wage inequality, you can fight however you want saying that it is illegal to pay women less than men, but that doesn't stop it from happening. "We get what we think we deserve" is such a powerful statement because its true. Many of the women I know, including myself, beats themselves up over the little mistakes they made. Part of this comes from ourselves telling ourselves that we have to be just as good in order to compete with men for the same jobs. This is true. I've seen women who are so much more qualified then men get passed over for jobs. Whether this is a statistically anomaly of the applicant pool or not, I see it too much for it to go unnoticed. One of my teachers said something in class that I think is wholly relevant to this conversation which is ,"Women get hired on experience, men get hired on potential." This translates to the idea that women have to work hard to get the same opportunities that men do. This is also not to say that men don't work hard, but that it is simply just easier for them to achieve the same levels as women do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm3YfMtgEdI (here's the video I was talking about)
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