Equality in workplace still an issue

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Schwarze also said that when Zurek was “moved to a higher scale” regarding salary, she was not given the same raise and Cabrini defended that fact by stating that Zurek had a wife to support.

Gender discrimination exists, not only at Cabrini, but throughout the entire world. Schwarze spoke about an experience she encountered at the University of Penn before she began teaching at Cabrini that involved the beginning of her friendship with Lynne Cheney, wife of the United States’ vice president.

Schwarze said, “Gender dis-

“WhenIinquiredas towhy I was hired at a lower salary than he wasI was tolditwasbecause he hadawifetosupport. The implicationwassince Ihada husband tosupportmeIwas notworth asmuch.”

-Dr. Sharon Schwarze

crimination is one of the reasons we became friends back then.

Cheney was at an interview for a college teaching job when she was asked, ‘Are you serious or are you married?’” The friendship between the two began while both experienced discrimination as women professors.

Some people believe that recent laws have positively affected the discrimination against women in the workplace, but specific examples and documented statistics prove that women are still discriminated against and the inequalities among their salaries prove that fact.

“Genderdiscrimination was much worseinthe ‘70sthan nowbutitstill exists. Fortunately today employers have to be more careful because of the laws but discrimination and the resulting discrepancies are still there,” Schwarze said.