Damn, just when we got the credit cards paid down and we’re ready for a little action at SheFinds.com (a site no self-respecting Jewish fashion babe should miss- Uggs in five colors? Whoopee!), Brother Billy sends along the news that today we’re supposed to “buycott” all goods and services to protest the “glacial pace of change for working women around the world.”
The brainchild of 85 Broads, a network of female MBA’s who “wants to highlight the mismatch between women’s significant purchasing power and their economic clout and representation on corporate boards.”
Says Melissa Hayes of Yonkers, N.Y: “We don’t buy that women control almost $4 trillion in annual consumer spending, buy two of every three cars, take 50 percent of all business trips and control half of all the personal wealth in the country, yet at the same time only eight CEOs in the Fortune 500 are women and they hold less than 15 percent of board seats in those companies.”
Maybe if it was for those poor women in Guatelmala who knit mukluks for sixteen cents a day, we might be more inclined, but there’s a storm front headed our way and we need rain boots.