According to the Women’s Center, females earn 77 percent of what men do in identical professional careers.

The center is selling brownies to females for 75 cents and to males for a dollar in the Brickyard today.

This is not the way to make people aware of inequalities in the workforce. The center is striving for equality with a display of inequality.

Charging males more than females is an example of the exact problem the center is trying to combat.

This will not only drive men away from the event, but it will push men and women apart.

We agree that this is an issue that should be brought to the surface, but ostracizing one side of the problem won’t help solve it. This is something that must be fixed by all people – together.

Women need more support in the workforce – they deserve to make just as much money as men, but they will be hard-pressed to do it alone – they need everyone to be their allies.

The Women’s Center should find a way to address this issue in such a way that isn’t discriminatory.

Have open forums, bring people together and send the right message. As it stands, the literal translation of the event says that men should be making 77 percent of what women make.

Sell the brownies for the same price to everyone and put a tag on each one that includes statistics that support inequality in the workforce to make people aware.

Michaela Bennett, a freshman in food science, asserts that men “will be shocked” when they realize they have to pay more for a brownie than a woman.

Most men will turn away and not pay at all, but the main issue is that shock and awe is never an effective method of persuasion – it typically yields adverse reactions.

Alienating men in the Brickyard serves no purpose – educating everyone together, equally, will push the movement in the right direction.