Weekly Participation - Peter Rice

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This week, we had an option of 3 different topics. My interviewee and I chose the topic of what should be done about economic inequalities that exist between men and women. My interviewee discussed mostly about how difficult it is for something to be done. She discussed how unfair the current laws are, making it so that plaintiffs in a case involving wage discrimination only have standing if they sue within 90 days of the discrimination. More often than not, victims don't know that this inequality exists until months down the road. She went on to say that men are usually happy to watch their own kind's backs when it comes to matters like this. It is intentionally repressive and meant to keep women out of power, and men in power. Men are happy to be making more than women, and will go to great lengths to keep things that way. We then discussed our confusion about how something would even be done in the first place. We were both uninformed when it came to the initial spark of the movement, whether it's something that needed to be done locally so it would spread nationwide, or whether Obama could simply correct it with the simple signing of a document. We both agreed that something needed to be done, but we were unsure of where something like that would start.