In a slow growth world, where middle class household incomes have been stagnate for years now, everyone is looking for stimulus ideas that will help rebuild household strength, savings and consumption ability. Here’s one of the most obvious: require equal pay for women and men. Both sexes should campaign for this across the world. It’s self-help for our collective financial progress. This double standard is counter-productive and utterly indefensible, and yet it still persists most everywhere.
“I don’t know if protest leads to change, but protest helps us have the conversation.” @HallaTomas on Iceland’s gender pay gap protest. pic.twitter.com/5mR4hzC8T4
— TED Talks (@TEDTalks) November 1, 2016
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