Because of Your Gender

This artwork visually conveys my experience as a victim of pay discrimination. I brought the EEOC ample data that Apple was paying my male coworkers significantly more for comparable work. Even so, they denied my claim, which happens to about 80% of equal pay cases.

The wall hanging is a grouping of nine clouds with suspended strings of precipitation. The outer clouds represent eight male coworkers who shared their compensation details with me, and the central cloud represents me. Each raindrop illustrates $1000 that Apple paid that man beyond what they paid me. The gaps ranged from $10,000 to $84,000 in annual base pay. To visualize the collective data, I used 259 drops. The words "evidence acquired does not establish that you were paid less" are quoted from the EEOC's findings about whether this pay gap was appropriate. The impressed gold words represent that the EEOC had been bought by an employer it's supposed to regulate.