What’s the big deal?

July 8, 2018July 8, 2018

What’s the big deal?

What’s the big deal? It’s just a kid’s allowance.

This is disturbing, just wait for it. A family knows it can get away with paying their own girls less: based on data from 10,000 families, that boys were given an average weekly allowance of $13.80, their female counterparts, were given only $6.71.

BUSYKID PAY ANALYSIS FINDINGS
AVERAGE WEEKLY ALLOWANCE
Boys $13.80
Girls $6.71

BUSYKID PAY ANALYSIS FINDINGS
AVERAGE BONUS GIVEN
Boys $17.01
Girls $15.54

The most damning survey comes from Westpac, which found that boys earned an average of $48 for spending 2.1 hours on chores per week, while girls only got $45 for working for 2.7 hours on household jobs.

What the experts say: If you are giving an allowance, here are some quick tips.

“1. Be clear. Keep it simple, and be realistic. The key is letting kids know from the start what this money is to be used for.

2. Be consistent. It’s actually less important to make the “right” rules than it is to stick to whatever you decide.

3. Give control. It’s fine to have some spending rules, such as limited candy, no toy guns and a ban on lipstick for little ones. But in general, let your kid have the freedom to buy what she/he wants.

4. Use cash. Studies show that all of us spend more when we use credit or some other form of online payment, since the pain of paying is put off to the future.

5. No chores. Research shows that chores are good for kids because they teach responsibility. But no chores, unless you’re willing to negotiate each time you want your kid to empty the dishwasher.”

By — Beth Kobliner
One of the nation’s leading authorities on personal finance for young people, Beth Kobliner is a commentator and journalist and the author of two New York Times bestsellers: “Get a Financial Life: Personal Finance In Your Twenties and Thirties” and an essential guide for parents, “Make Your Kid a Money Genius (Even If You’re Not).”

But, what does this translate into? This chore pay gap also demonstrates to girls that household work doesn’t count as work that should be rewarded. It’s no wonder then that when they grow up, women spend more than twice as much time on unpaid work (like childcare and household chores) as men do each week, while men find more time to relax, reported Pew Research.

Remember the 1980 Jane Fonda comedy Nine to Five?
Three women secretly take over the office management from their sexist boss. Those women put in place a flexible hour program, a daycare center, and equal pay. The movie ends with the three women opening a bottle of champagne and celebrating their achievements. When one woman comments that they still didn’t get equal pay, another responds that this is just the beginning and “they’ll get there”.

Thirty-eight years later, we’re astonishingly still not there. Republicans voted down the equal pay every time, citing the explanation of diverging professional preferences between men and women. So, how does that impact your wallet?

Women are almost half of the workforce. They are the sole or co-breadwinner in half of American families with children.

Now, by age 37, women were earning $61,278 and men were earning $83,747.
Projected to age 60, assuming the college-educated Millennials experience earnings growth similar to similarly educated women and men that came before them, women would be earning $73,136 at age 60 and men would be earning $121,061.

WAIT, WAIT FOR IT!
Between the ages of 25 and 60, college-educated Millennial women, compared with men, would have lost more than a million dollars—$1,066,721 —if they work full-time, year-round in every year.

That is the cumulative lifetime earrings losses – $1,066,721.

Source: IWPR analysis of data from the 1975-2017 Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement (Integrated Public Use Microdata Series, Version 5.0).

White women will not reach parity, equal pay, until 2059. For women of color, the rate of change is even slower: Hispanic women will have to wait until 2233 and Black women will wait until 2124 for equal pay.

If women want change, it must start at home and the evaluation of their own family’s diverging allowance preferences. Then, they must make the decision to close the gender gap, teach young girls to ask for equal allowance/sports fees/equipment etc, for equal work.

Women Inspire Change!

Jenneffer Pulapaka

#pay #equality

#womenleaders #womenownedbusiness #womensrights

January 21, 2018January 22, 2018

Sexism has tipped to the point of hate towards women

Our innovative world has evolved, but our ideas about gender have not evolved. This sexism has tipped to the point of hate towards women.

“No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”
– Nelson Mandela

Most recently the women that are my friends, my colleagues, restaurant staff, office staff, business management continue to be verbally abused and bullied. There remains no room for hate and violence in this world. We must learn to be more kind, compassionate, empathetic, and sympathetic to humanity.

People, I hear you. But, I’m good, and my staff are good. We have adjusted to key problems and have made changes, as we progress. Still, why do women in business face retaliation/pissiness from both men and women when it comes to the enforcement of office/business policies?
Examples:
Staff reporting to work on time,
Implementing payment on accounts receivable,
Business opening/closing schedule,
Can’t get a specific appointment,
Completing deadlines,
Questioning costs and overhead,
Applying proper dress codes,
Completing staff task lists,
Determination of charitable contributions,
Restricting counterproductive demands.

Does it come down to “Smile!” sexism? Public entitlement to control how a woman looks, speaks, and thinks?

As a businesswoman, I seek out and maintain sustainable practices in the multiple businesses I run. Sustainability rests on the principle that we must meet the needs of the present without compromising the abilities or opportunities of future generations. Therefore, if we are given the opportunity to influence other people, we should not influence their hate, jealousy, or anger. If a person continues to instill hostility towards another person or business after they have made positive and productive changes, what is the incentive for people to respond to constructive criticism?

Sadly, our community has reached a level of violent threats that include hate crimes towards our staff, against our friends, our neighbors, and myself pointedly. Patients now openly threaten to beat staff over insurance dilemmas. It has reached a level where oppositional critics, a local musician enraged by a dress code, rallied for aggression while dismissing the request for assistance in preventing further violence. He replied by writing, “that’s your problem”. Instilling violence against women in our community is not productive, and using social media posts to inflame a derogatory & savage retaliation is vulgar.

No truer words can set the stage for our current atmosphere, that we must heal these wounds; we must allow tolerance; we must evolve our ideas on gender and race. Women are entitled to equality and the freedom it encompasses.

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
–Abraham Lincoln

Jenneffer Pulapaka

#MeToo #TimesUp #womeninspirechange #docslead #StopSexism #WomensMarch

August 27, 2017August 28, 2017

Women’s Equality Day 2017

Women’s Equality Day, August 26th, marks the ratification of the 19th Amendment, giving women the right to vote. DJ Trump never proclaimed equality for women on the day of observance, something every sitting president since Nixon has done. Trump skirted around mentioning equal access to health care, the gender pay gap, or gender-based violence. And hey, we have no shortage of questionable national days so do it right– hello, National Cheeseburger Day.

Here is the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA):
Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.

It IS that simple.

For years, I have listened to men complain about being discriminated by affirmative action. Guess what men? You will benefit from the passage of the equal rights amendment.

Today, there is little doubt that one of the greatest areas of discrimination against women is in employment. The average is an 18% pay discrepancy annually. Unions report, “we want to protect the little women” than admit that it is lucrative for the men in American industry. Thousands of jobs from which women are arbitrarily excluded are the well-paid, interesting, “male” jobs and what remains are the poorly paid, tedious jobs, as “female” jobs. This is a cruel way of keeping women in a condition of poverty and humiliation. 35% of the families headed by women live in poverty; 61% of the Nation’s poor children live in families headed by women. Your failure to pay equally leads to a nation of children destined for a path of poverty and dependence on government aid.

Equality must be written into our Constitution. Women have not been protected by the Supreme Court; which has not extended to any female citizen the protection of the 5th or the 14th amendments. Why should working women spend thousands of dollars on litigation to gain work equality?

Prevarication that the amendment will keep women with dependent children from receiving alimony is a common scare tactic. The women I know, who are divorced, must work to support their children because child support is not there. If a man divorced his wife, done legally, got custody of the children, alimony, and child support, then good for him.

The ERA would put “gay rights” into the U.S. Constitution. Yes, it’s about damn time!

The ERA will jeopardize single-sex programs and schools. Yes, we need to begin teaching children that sexism in youth lays the foundation for sexism as an adult. We are a country that is sexist; dictated under a current Administration that demonstrates misogyny and racism. The current “ways” are not successful for 1/2 of its population. It is time to change. Additionally, it would take away women’s traditional exemption from military conscription and also from military combat duty. I wholeheartedly believe that all citizens, if able, be exposed to conscription and the ability to join the armed forces.

Yes, the ERA would put abortion rights into the U.S. Constitution and make abortion funding a constitutional right. I am sorry, anti-abortion advocates, your beliefs should not be above the current rules of law. Federal health care does not ban any legal medical procedure for men. Additionally, the ERA will lead to a balancing of insurance companies premiums: health, life, automobile, etc. Women will not be required to pay higher insurance premiums with equality; they will be paying insurance equally with men.

“I will continue to support and uphold equal humanity for all. Let us never forget that all people in the USA are entitled that the equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. ”

Jenneffer Pulapaka

#womeninspirechange #womenlead #docslead #equality