Due to
last minute substitutions, Jim served as Toastmaster.
Edie
served as Grammarian; as well as presenting a speech, and she provided us with
"agent provocateur" as the word of the day.
We heard
three great speeches.
Tamar
presented "The Wage Gap, True or Myth?". Tamar is expecting
another child in May, so she decided to investigate some of the issues of a
working mother earning an income, along with her working husband, and how
incomes of men and women compare. There is no question that the incomes of
women are lower than the incomes of men. The question is determining
why. She found several very informative studies that evaluated this,
examining differences in types of jobs, differences in education levels,
differences in years of on the job experience and other factors. Taking
into account all the identified factors, there is still a large gap between
men's and women's pay that is not explained.
Edie then gave us a speech about police brutality, which included her
own proposal for how best to reduce it. She proposes that police maintain
multiple methods of visible identification, which anyone on the receiving end
could quickly recognize, and that if these requirements for identification are
not fully maintained, their funding be cut off.
Karen then provided us humor by Roasting Russell Pike as "Russell
The Romantic Rascal". Karen told us that she is wondering how many
times Russell will tell her that he met "the one" only to later say
she was not "the one".
We look forward to next years enlightening, entertaining, educational presentations! Merry Christmas, happy New Year and seasons greetings!
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