Greg Perry Gender Pay

When looking at visual aids, whether it be a political carton, an ad, or another form of expression visually, we can use visual aids when presenting an argument to strengthen our point. Political cartoons are usually printed in newspapers, magazines, or online articles and can be used to present an argument strongly and prove a point. In this Political Cartoon, cartoonist Greg Perry uses black and white coloring and characters who look similar with the same melancholy facial expressions to represent a deeper more prevalent societal issue, that is, the wage gap between working men and women.
Discrimination between the privileges that men supposedly deserve and those that women deserve has been something that has been disputed for a long time
Greg Perry illustrates the issue of gender pay gap through drawing a cartoon of a man and woman standing on a corner of a street each holding a sign. The man’s sign says, “Will Work for Food” (Greg Perry) and the woman’s says, “Will Work for 28% Less Food” (Greg Perry). The man and woman depicted in the cartoon look the same and have the same facial expressions which could represent, when looking at the political cartoon with an open perspective mind, that they are capable of doing the same amount and quality of work as the other. Women’s activist Kevin Miller explains how the gender pay wage gap is changing and how because of women becoming more and more educated, “The gap has narrowed since the 1970s, due largely to women’s progress in education and workforce participation and to men’s wages rising at a slower rate.” (Miller, Kevin) When looking at the political cartoon by Greg Perry one can conclude that though men may be capable of doing the same job, the woman still expects that she will be payed less than the man as her sign says, “Will Work for 28% Less Food”. The woman is still willing to work and is willing to get whatever form of pay she can get and in this cartoon that pay is in “28% Less Food” (Greg Perry) than the man will