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Consider this: Equal pay day for all women landed this year on March 15 and last year on March 24. Equal Pay Day, according to the National Committee on Pay Equity (Links to an external site.), denotes how far into a new year women must work to be paid what men were paid the previous year.
Guided by your responsibilities to presence, participation, and to your participation partners, scroll down to click on Reply and, in the box that opens:
Define the keywords! Draw insights separately from Evans (2017), from Hester and Gray (2020), and from Crenshaw (in TED, 2016) to define these three keywords:
Identity-as-signal (versus identity-as-noise).
Intersectionality.
Omission bias.
Filter a real-world example through the three keywords!
- Consider these facts: When we account for all workers in 2021, women in 2021 made 73 cents for every dollar a dude made in all 2021. As such, women needed to work until March 15, 2022 to catch up with where men finished on December 31, 2021. We know from mathematical modeling that full-time working women who start working at age 20 this year, will need to work until they are 72 to be paid what a 20-year-old man will be paid by age 60 (Corbett, 2022).
Not all women caught up with all men on March 15, 2022, which perhaps tells us something about omission bias. Some women reached equal pay before March 15. Other women had not. As such:
Filter the numbers on working “women” from Corbett (2022) through both the identify-as-signal and intersectionality keywords to explain both who may have and who likely had not caught up with men on March 15, 2022.
- Explain why moral psychology (and thus identity as signal and/or intersectionality) matters in this case and perhaps in similar examples where omission bias drives public discourse.
Seek clarification! Ask your participation partners and/or Professor Clark at least one substantive question from the pool of whatever questions you have.
Evidence participation in terms of items 6-9 (Clark, “Appendix B”)! Circle back to this assignment in 1-2 days and engage with your partners’ work.
- References
Clark, D. A. (2022b). Appendix B: Guide to making a case for participation [Course materials]. https://app.box.com/file/32565792479
- Clark, D. A. (2022j). PSY 304 syllabus [Course materials]. https://app.box.com/file/684214014544
- Corbett, H. (2022, March 14). What Equal Pay Day 2022 data is — and is not — telling us. Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/hollycorbett/2022/03/…
- Evans, J. St. B.T. (2017). Thinking and reasoning: A very short introduction. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
- Hester, N., & Gray, K. (2020). The moral psychology of raceless, genderless strangers. Perspectives on Psychological Science 15(2), 216-230. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691619885840
TED. (2016, December 7). The urgency of intersectionality [Video]. YouTube.
https://www.pay-equity.org/
