gender equality
What if it were toilet paper?
Was the decision to remove the menstruation product machines economical or sexist? According to student records, menstruation directly affects over half of the Evergreen campus and indirectly affects all of the Evergreen community. Oh, and the whole world. So why are we down from 35 machines to six?
A Gendered Budget
When budget cuts come down, they tend to cut occupations of care. What the government considers to be “unnecessary costs” can be rephrased as “things women can be forced to do for free.” Because of this, the cuts have a far greater impact on women.
The service cuts and jobs lost often fall in occupations of community and social services, for which 60% of the work force is women; and office occupations, of which 83% of the work force is women.