The bot's tagline: "Stop posting platitudes. Start fixing the problem."
It’s International Women’s Day, and many corporations have launched effusive tributes to their female employees on social media. Women are powerful! Women are resilient! Women are amazing! But one genius Twitter bot is pointing out truth of a wholly different sort: Women are still woefully underpaid.
Every time a UK-based organization tweets about the United Nations-endorsed holiday, @paygapapp automatically replies with the salary disparity between men and women in that organization to its more-than 75,000 followers. The bot culls salary data published on the UK government’s website, following a 2017 mandate that required every company in the country with 250 or more employees to calculate and report the difference in earnings between male and female workers.
The bot is agnostic about an organization’s mission. Nonprofits and charities are called out as much as for-profits and academic institutions.
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