So far, more than 1,000 orders have been placed, the team said, even from the school’s boys soccer team. Men can also purchase them for an additional $4, representing the wage gap, Maia Vota, 18, a Seahorses co-captain told CNN. “We’re working to close that … so that when BHS girls soccer players are out in the world working full-time, they will be making equal pay for equal work.” “So right now, in Vermont, the wage gap is $0.16, which means that women earn $0.84 to the dollar that the men do on average,” said Jessica Nordhaus, Lydia’s mom and a Change the Story member. The girls partnered with a local group called Change The Story, which advocates for women’s economic equality, to make the shirts. “The refs issued yellow cards to those four, at which point the crowd started to chant ‘Equal pay! Equal pay!’ just like in the Women’s World Cup this summer,” Sheeser said. The four players were given yellow cards by the ref since Vermont’s high school athletic rules prohibit players from wearing clothing emblazoned with slogans, teammate Lydia Sheeser, 14, told the network.īut besides the penalty, the equal pay demonstration was widely celebrated. The demonstration unfolded last Friday when four players from Burlington High School Seahorses took off their jerseys after going ahead by a goal to reveal the shirts, CNN reported. Members of a girls high school varsity soccer team in Vermont were reportedly penalized for wearing “#equalpay” shirts in protest of the state’s gender wage gap. Generative AI tool amplifies race and gender stereotypes: study Oof! Just what we need - a Soros who's even 'more political' than George Men who are unemployed would rather their female partner be out of work: study I erased myself to transform into a plastic bimbo Barbie
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