WIS PDX Courage Campaign
The Courage Campaign is a WIS PDX advocacy initiative that originated in September 2021 to provide a safe space for women-identifying folks in science to feel seen, heard, and supported if/when they face any form of gender-based oppression.
WIS PDX is committed to fighting the systems of oppression that prevent women and non-binary individuals from excelling in STEM and beyond. Throughout the Courage Campaign, we will be providing women with a safe space where they can share their stories and access resources to shift the onus of oppression from the individual to the system, identify structural patterns of oppression that allow pay inequity to persist, and empower us with solutions to fight back.
Campaign Initiatives
Equal Pay Day represents the number of extra days that women and other marginalized genders have to work to earn the same as a cis straight male makes in 1 year.
How to Calculate Your Equal Pay Day:
Comparison with colleague’s salary:
Enter your salary in the text box
Enter your colleague’s salary. If you don’t know your colleague’s salary, enter the average salary for someone in your role.
Press ‘Calculate’.
Percentage of colleague’s salary:
Use the cursor to scroll along the bar.
Press ‘Calculate’ when you’ve selected your desired percentage.
Calculate Your Equal Pay Day!
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Pay Equity Toolkit
Want to participate?
If you would like to participate by submitting your experience to WIS-PDX anonymously, please click the button below. With each submitter’s consent, WIS-PDX will compile these stories to share with the community and any other party to make sure they are heard. We recognize that recounting these events can be traumatic. We want to offer support to any individual who needs it through this process. You are not alone and you do not have to traverse this alone.
Join the cause!
Interested in partnering with us or volunteering for the campaign? Fill out the form below and one of our team members will be in touch shortly.