Seventeen-year-old Susan Sparrow of Salt Lake City mobilized a group of 20 peers at her high school to lobby state legislators expressing outrage that women in Utah earn only 66 cents for every dollar a man makes. On one of many visits to the statehouse during their three-month campaign, they passed out cookies, some large and others 34% smaller, with messages such as "Aren't we worth it? Vote yes on HB 81." The result was passage of a new law called the Compensation Pay Study that will collect payment data by gender, an important step in addressing pay inequity.[Source: Youth Activism Project Success Stories]
~ Zoe Weil
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No one ever told me I was a Mogo hero but horray! - Susan
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