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Today marks the fifth day of a sit-in at Washington University held by Student Worker Alliance (SWA), a labor rights group, in protest of the low wages paid to the university’s workers. Student protestors have occupied Brookings Hall since Monday—the college admissions office—and they have pledged not to leave until the University creates a living wage program...
...Even though women are outnumbering men in undergraduate programs, it doesn’t mean they are achieving equality in the workforce,” Gault said. “There is still a gender wage gap. For a woman to earn as much as a man with a bachelor degree she would need a professional degree...
...know that the wage differential is still quite gendered, females may feel compelled to get more education to reach a certain wage bracket,” said Carter. “Parents may also place more pressure on daughters because of a sense that women have a double hurdle to jump...
DormAid LLC is a student-run cleaning service. The business has gone through extensive negotiations with a consortium of administrators and House Masters to work out mutually-acceptable policies regarding insurance, security, the living wage, and Massachusetts’ laws regarding cleaning agents. The founding of the company has been one of compromise and negotiation in an effort to ease concerns over the well-being of the Harvard community. In response to these concerns, DormAid has developed a business model that maximizes the benefit of having such a company operating on campus while minimizing, if not altogether eliminating, the detriments...
Although DormAid does not in any way parallel the services provided by Harvard employees, the company has also made it a point to subscribe to the labor norms present on campus. All DormAid cleaning professionals are paid the same living wage that any similarly employed worker on-campus would receive. In this manner, DormAid is actively creating more jobs for low-income workers in the area and raising their rate of pay a full 25 percent above the off-campus rate...