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So yesterday I went to a restaurant with my friends. There wasn't any other customers in the restaurant. We ordered our food. Five people that worked just stood around and stared at me as I was ordering my food. My friends and I went to go find a table. I could here them talking about me and laughing. btw: I don't know any of these people, I'm a passersby from a different town. There was also a Confederate flag waving on back of one of there trucks. Getting back to my story. I got back up to get napkins. I here someone whisper "hey you" for behind the counter. I turn around to see the same five people staring at me. They kept staring and one of them whispered something. They all started laughing. I went back to my table to tell my friends what happened. They told me "don't say anything". I didn't and I immediately regretted that decision. I gave them a one star review and left. I'm curious to know what other people would have done. I've had situations happen like this before and I feel like I should stand up for myself. Also should I listen to my friends or should I ignore their advice?

So someone posted a story to a Reddit community, here's some of it:

"During my shift last night, a group of four women in their late 20s came in. They were a pleasure to have as customers. They ordered four of our house cocktails to start with and then went over the menu for their entrees.

When I was on my way back to their booth with the drinks on a tray, I walked by the back side and overheard one of them talking about how she was 14 weeks along. When I rounded back, they were talking about the same topic and it was clear to me that she was pregnant. I figured her having one drink wasn't a big deal. They ordered their entrees and I went off to handle other tables. About five minutes later, they called me over again and asked for another round. At this point I started getting concerned, but I took the order and cheerfully said I'd be right back. This time, I went to the bartender, and asked him to make one of them a virgin cocktail. He was confused but since he's a good friend of mine, I told him to just trust me."

Anyways so eventually the customer found out and talked with the manager who ended up yelling at the server according to the story... "She also informed me that I could get the restaurant in serious trouble for discrimination, and upon examination of my state's laws, she is correct. "

So who's in the wrong? Ignore the law, personally who do you think is in the wrong?

I have no strong feelings about the size of the role of sex discrimination and/or sexism plays.

According to the Fair Work Commission "it is rare, but not unheard of, for women to be paid a lower base wage than men doing the same jobs"
https://www.humanrights.gov.au/sites/default/files/content/pdf/sex_discrim/equal_pay.pdf This document contains cases, for example, the Danfoss case, where a court determined the pay gap between male and female workers to be in violation of the Workplace Relations Act 1996, which requires employers to accord male and female employees equal remuneration for work of equal value.

Policies that aren't inherently sexist but are unjust and mostly impact women contribute to the pay gap. Workers are paid unjustly in areas where there are a higher number of women, contributing to the gap, but is not due to sex discrimination.

For example, in Australia, the penalty rates were cut in positions where mostly women are employed.
https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/theausinstitute/pages/1437/attachments/original/1488949016/Womens_Wages_and_the_Penalty_Rate_Cut.pdf?1488949016. The solution here is not to tell women to "choose a better paying job". Men and women will argue that it is fair to be paid a higher rate when they work on a weekend. This penalty cut is unjust and is an issue independent from sex discrimination or sexism. Although the penalty cut in itself is not sex discrimination, it is unjust and does disproportionately affect women, contributing a widening to the gender pay gap.

In America, there is currently a push for the minimum wage to increase to $15 per hour. Supporters, like me, of this increase see being paid the current $7.25 per hour as unjust and it is estimated 58% of the nearly 40 million U. S. workers who would benefit from this wage hike are women.

Out of space but here' s a potential contributor linked to sexism https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/20/upshot/as-women-take-over-a-male-dominated-field-the-pay-drops.html