Advocates for equal pay for women put purses on Mississippi lawmakers' desks. Each purse contained a cookie with "56c" on it, noting Black women make an average of 56 cents for every $1 a white male makes for the same work. Credit: Geoff Pender
When lawmakers arrived at the Capitol on Thursday, they found purses on their desks, each containing a cookie with “56c” on it — to represent the 56 cents on the dollar Black women in Mississippi receive compared to white men for the same work.
