Though everyday women work hard for their rights worldwide, there is a long road to getting total equality. Women struggle daily with the injustice many work fields present regarding salaries, so when a female has a good position with a deserved income, it is a big deal.
This woman on Reddit is an excellent example of this issue. OP works as a product manager for a tech company, commonly known as a male-dominated world; she has worked in the same company since she got out of college and has been escalating positions to get where she is today.
OP explained she spends a lot of time helping other women rise in their work field to get better salaries, and she is very transparent about how she makes. One day she and her fiancé were talking to his siblings, his eighteen-year-old brother and twenty-nine-year-old sister, about her job.
While his brother is thinking about studying computer science, his sister is a pregnant single mom who works for minimum wage. His brother asked OP about her job, and with that came the question about how much she made; of course, she responded by telling him that she makes around $300,000 after recently getting promoted.
He was surprised about the number but congratulated her. After some time, she noticed that her SIL was sobbing while her mother-in-law was comforting her about something. When they asked her what was wrong, she said it was hard to see how other people have everything while she makes $15 an hour.
