The average woman loses $11,000 every year from the gender wage gap. According to Sarah Silverman in a video for the Equal Payback Project, “Over the course of her working life, that’s almost $500,000. That’s a $500,000 vagina tax.” No wonder she’s shopping for a penis.
The campaign aims to close the wage gap by crowd funding an admittedly ludicrous number: $29,811,746,430,000. That “vagina tax,” as Silverman names it, represents the how much women lose when each of the US’s 69 million female workers are paid nearly $500,000 less than men over their working careers.
The money raised from the Equal Payback Project will go towards funding the National Women’s Law Center – a non-profit that works against employment discrimination and focuses on legislative issues to promote gender equality. “They fight to help women get the money they deserve,” Silverman says, waving a prosthetic penis, about the areas that the organization works in. “They’re very good at what they do, you know, for a bunch of girls.” (Via)
Among the penises looks at are the Gentleman, the Frat Boy, and the Seinfeld, which is much better than the Costanza. Can’t get that thing wet.