Wage Gap Bake Sale Argumentative Essay

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Petition for removal of gender-based pricing of We-For-She bake sale

To Mr. Munro

As you are surely aware of, the Women's Right group “We For She” is hosting a Bake Sale named _“Wage Gap Bake Sale”_ on the 18th of October during lunch in the HS cafeteria. We are petitioning for the removal of its gender-based pricing, one that is discriminating male students for social inequalities they are not, and should not be, held accountable for. I will cite their own reasoning for this pricing:

“For this bake sale, boys will pay more than girls in order to represent the current gender inequalities that our society faces today, such as the wage gap.”

First and foremost, it should be pointed out that none of the International School of Beijing's …show more content…

**Raising awareness towards this issue should receive equal effort from both genders, not one**; if not, this brings back the idea of gender inequality once again, in which men should work more than women.

Even if the male gender is to blame for all this suffering in society, the very fact that the male students of ISB are discriminated as a gender should not be tolerated, because it is against the very values that this school stands for:

“*Students will:*

* *Treat everyone in the school community with respect.*
* *Express themselves in a manner that respects the rights of others.*
* *Practice tolerance towards differences in cultures, gender, race, sexual orientation or beliefs. * ”

-* Behavior Standards *under *High School Expectations*

The passage above this quoted directly from the High School Student Code of Honour, to which every student and student body, including “We For She” are bound to upon admission to the International School of Beijing.

This email will serve as a formal petition for the removal of gender based pricing in the “We For She” hosted on the 18th of October, 2016.

Thank you for your consideration

Sincerely,

Frank Cui
Vincent Cai
Adam Tang
Alex

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