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"What's the 411? Equal Work...Equal Pay!"
Today—like every day—ask yourself this
very important question: "What's the 411?"
In other words, "What's the information?"
And the "411"—or the information—is
that "Equal Work Deserves Equal Pay!"
-Paul Whiting
(a.k.a., Small All White in the Forest)
"I am no barrier to its sun; the light and I are as one!"
My Poetic Notes:
The reason that I wrote this poem can be summed up with the following statement: Amid a varitable swirl of self-imposed activities, I totally forgot to publish a post that I had prepared for Equal Pay Day! Thus, I am providing the same basic information, or the same basic "411," if you will, from the National Committee on Pay Equity (please see below) in order to compensate for my error!
And this poem was also published on my "Paul Whiting — A Creative Writer" blog (please see the hyperlink below for the blog), since I feel that the message in this poem applies to the message that I am trying to convey through "Paul Whiting — A Creative Writer."
This poem was written in Portland, Oregon.
-Paulee
https://paulwhitingwriting.blogspot.com
"Equal Pay Day" from the National Committee on Pay Equity:
"Wear RED on Equal Pay Day to symbolize how far women and minorities are 'in the red' with their pay!
The next Equal Pay Day is Tuesday, April 9, 2013. This date symbolizes how far into 2013 women must work to earn what men earned in 2012.
Equal Pay Day was originated by the National Committee on Pay Equity (NCPE) in 1996 as a public awareness event to illustrate the gap between men's and women's wages.
Since Census statistics showing the latest wage figures will not be available until late August or September, NCPE leadership decided years ago to select a Tuesday in April as Equal Pay Day. (Tuesday was selected to represent how far into the work week women must work to earn what men earned the previous week.) The date also is selected to avoid avoid religious holidays and other significant events.
Because women earn less, on average, than men, they must work longer for the same amount of pay. The wage gap is even greater for most women of color."
https://www.pay-equity.org/day.html
This "Small All White in the Forest" Post No. 153 was edited on June 25th, 2023.
"Poetry is using the fewest words possible in order to describe all that is possible to describe." –Paul Whiting [June 1st, 2022]
