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What does that look like? Does the government just take over wage setting? I don't think bureaucrats could do that well. It is beyond human ability to take into

• runarberg 3y ago
  While feminists largely agree on the problem (there are systemic barriers created by patriarchy) there is certainly less consensus around solution. My take on solutions involves dismantling capitalism. My take is not super realistic and other have more tangible options. But this is the reason there is a general strike rather then a petition to pass a specific bill. This strike in particular is not payed by the unions, but rather it is assumed that employers also want the same thing (equal pay) and participate by giving the striking workers their salary. Most actually do, but there are some that don’t. If you think you know the type of business that won’t give striking women their pay when they are fighting for equal pay, even when most businesses do, you are probably correct. So the organizers are actually planning on publishing a shame list (isl. Tossalist) naming the employers who don’t value gender equality, effectively exposing their pink-washing. I think the hope is that exposing them will make it easier to push them into doing better,