The BobboSphere: Don't believe everything you think.

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I still have my old green 59 cents button around somewhere. That relic symbolized the female pay gap in the early 1970's. I can't help feeling we should have done a lot better over the past decades.

Women in the United States are still paid only 77 cents for every dollar earned by men.

And for women of color, the numbers are even worse. African-American
women earn 63 cents and Latinas earn 52 cents for every dollar paid to
white men

It’s time to take action.

In Jean-Paul Sarte's play, No Exit, 3 people are locked in a room together forever. Eventually they figure out that they are in hell and this is their punishment.

If being locked in a room with 2 other people is hell, what do you call it when the room is on fire and you can't get out?

That's what American writer Florence Lasser explored in her play, The Story of the ILGWU (International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union). One of the episodes includes the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Fire of 1911 when 146 mostly immigrant Jewish and Italian women workers were killed because the fire exits were locked. Some of them leaped to their deaths as the flames drew closer.