Opponents allege discrimination after women’s collective prices cupcakes according to gender to highlight wage disparity• The feminist cupcake sale that led to death and rape threatsA bake sale intended to raise awareness of the gender pay gap has sparked outrage on an Australian university campus,with discounted cupcakes for women and other marginalised groups prompting claims of discrimination, threats of rape and violence, or memes of varying quality.
The women’s collective of the University of Queensland student union organised the Gender Pay Gap Bake Sale as allotment of their annual feminist week,with prices set at the proportion of the dollar female graduates of each faculty earned relative to men.
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Source: theguardian.com