{"id":13080,"date":"2011-04-08T09:48:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T16:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=13080"},"modified":"2011-04-08T09:50:04","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T16:50:04","slug":"cartoon-the-wage-gap-and-womens-choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=13080","title":{"rendered":"Cartoon: The Wage Gap and Women&#8217;s Choices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leftycartoons.com\/the-wage-gap-and-womens-choices\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/wage-gap-cartoon.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"wage-gap-cartoon\" width=\"550\" height=\"532\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13081\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Click on the cartoon to see it a bit bigger.<\/p>\n<p>[spoiler]The scene: Two women talk. One wears a black skirt, the other has a ponytail.<\/p>\n<p>Panel one<br \/>\nBLACK SKIRT: the WAGE GAP has nothing to do with SEXISM! women are paid less because they make different CHOICES.<\/p>\n<p>Panel two<br \/>\nBLACK SKIRT: HAVING A FAMILY, for example. many women take time off from work to take care of children or elderly relatives&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Panel three<br \/>\nBLACK SKIRT: so women work less. or work part-time. or need more flexible jobs. and as a result, they get paid less. but what does that have to do with SEXISM?<\/p>\n<p>Panel four<br \/>\nPONYTAIL: couldn&#8217;t MEN do half of that unpaid work?<br \/>\nBLACK SKIRT: that&#8217;s CRAZY TALK!<\/p>\n<p>Panel four, tiny subpanel in the corner<br \/>\nPONYTAIL: okay, i&#8217;ll let someone ELSE raise my kids.<br \/>\nBLACK SKIRT: what kind of LOUSY mother does THAT?[\/spoiler]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click on the cartoon to see it a bit bigger. [spoiler]The scene: Two women talk. One wears a black skirt, the other has a ponytail. Panel one BLACK SKIRT: the WAGE GAP has nothing to do with SEXISM! women are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=13080\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,31,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cartooning-comics","category-feminism-sexism-etc","category-gender-and-the-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13080"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13084,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13080\/revisions\/13084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}