www.fastcompany.com: Remember how Minnie Mouse had to wait 40 years longer than Mickey Mouse to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame? Turns out she may not be the only Disney employee being treated differently based on her gender. To mark Equal Pay Day, a law firm has filed a class-action lawsuit against the Walt Disney Co., alleging that the company systematically underpays its female employees.
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How can Disney claim that the lawsuit is without merit if there is literal public data available that shows that that statement is blatantly false? It could well be that the article was written to make me have this reaction as the statistic about payment inequality among Disney salaries in the United Kingdom starts a paragraph that ends with Disney’s representatives refuting the suit. However, I still firmly believe that a company should address these claims regardless. What is so wrong with treating people fairly and equitably? Obviously saving money is not the issue here as they are willing to dole out raises as hush money. If you hire people you believe are qualified to do the job regardless of gender, then you should be paying them what you believe a qualified person deserves regardless of gender. I hope something comes of this and this major company that so many look up to and idolize takes steps forwards to eliminate practices that perpetuate inequalities in our world.
Yup well my first reaction was come on Disney which was followed immediately by a feeling of well, I can’t say I’m surprised. I find it hypocritical that Disney claimed the lawsuit was without merit but when were discovered by the female employee gave her a 25000 dollar raise, isn’t that admitting guilt. Their functioning off of systems that are outdated and outlawed in some places, like come on! I wish there was a culture that existed in the United States first off that valued equality and diversity in a real tangible way and second that the discussion of earnings and pay wasn’t so taboo. If we didn’t make the conversations about money so that big companies like Disney couldn’t get away with this sort of garbage treatment of their employees. Personally I’m glad that this raise wasn’t enough to quench this lawsuit because it is something that needs to be brought to light to fight it and if we can bring down a big name like Disney, we’ll be able to take other guilty parties too.
“Male employees at Disney are being paid 22% more than women” ARE YOU SERIOUS? 22%??? And Disney has the audacity to say that this lawsuit has “no merit.” This is absolutely ridiculous. Disney has been known to have these issues before, and just generally treat their workers with a lack of respect. The Disney College Program basically takes bright young students and uses them as practically free labor to run the Disney parks. They have crazy schedules with (I can’t remember for sure), but I believe no pay and they live on the Disney property, and there are just crazy rules in general. Once they graduate and possibly actually get hired as a real staff member with pay, they only get a few days of work a week and usually have to pick up another job. Disney does not respect it’s employees very well and this case is just another clear example of that fact.
This news showed a great gap between how people think and how the international corps usually behave on certain social topic. Disney is known for their support to the gender issue and racial diversities in many work they have done is the past ten years. Such as reversing the typical expression and switching sexual stereotypes. However, while the works they produced advocating such a great progressive ideas regarding social trends, we can see from this article that the company is still struggling to take it all the way to the real world. There can be too many excuses for such a discouraging fact that female workers are under paid, but nothing can justify that the company denied the merit of this lawsuit. The company's administrative level made a huge mistake on responding this occurrence and it will break many of the supporter's heart, let's hope Disney make the reasonable adjustment and take the responsibility of being a leading role in this industry.
After working at six flags last summer and loving it, I have toyed with the idea of whether I would like to work in that end of the entertainment industry. I always got hung up on their often racist and sexist pasts, but I felt that they were trying to move away from that. I hoped that if I chose to work at any amusement parks, most of their problematic past would have been addressed, resolved, and taken into consideration by the companies in every move they make. Disney sadly continues to disappoint me in this regard. I also can not believe that Disney is denying these claims when the evidence is very clear. I really think we should take on the same policy as the UK because it is clear that gender pay gap is still going on, but the suppression of discussion of wages makes it difficult to know when this is happening.
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