“We have so many wonderful people, but the pay disparity is real because what do we get paid on the dollar per the men in the same positions? Often, when women and men compete at the same places, they get lower positions, and that is what I see.”
“It’s obviously a reality, but it’s one of the many problems in this country. And I think that it’s got a very bad effect on gender rewards in this country.”
“From a person who raised his nieces and has a granddaughter, right? When the father leaves, the ladies stay home, and they are very underpaid—very underpaid—because we don’t see that other side. We just leave our kids with the mothers. I believe women should get paid just as much as men, some even more, because at the end of the day, who feeds them, who washes them, who schools them, who clothes them, does all those things and still goes to work? Because I was raised by a lady like her—my mother—and she was always underpaid. But I believe women should get equal pay because they run the household.”
“No matter if you are a man or a woman, if you are able to do a job, then that person should be the one hired. If it is a job that requires more strength—because I don’t think men and women are built the same muscle-wise—then maybe a man would get more pay for that type of job because he was more able. But, if we can do it, then it should be given to us the same as everybody else.”
“Men get overpaid, and no matter how qualified a woman is, they never get the pay that the man gets, or acknowledgement, even if they are doing the same job.”
“I feel that the pay disparity is not good. As far as I’m concerned, if you do the same work a man does, you should be paid the same across the board. I don’t care if you are pink or what you are; I think it should be the same. I think it is a shame that America does that to women, to Black women especially.”
