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*Gender Pay Gap: The average difference between
a man's and a woman's wages or salaries.
Sensitive topic Let the boys speak
After the forum, lots of people were inspired
In today’s era of free speech, gender equality, feminism and
and ready to set wage transparency system in their
other sensitive topics always rise active discussions. Let’s leave
own companies. Talor was very pleased by the
aside personal disputes and take a look at data: according to World
fact that so many people care about the problem,
Economic Forum report on gender gap in 2015, women’s current
especially men. She said: “If every World Barista
level of salary can be equivalent to what men had 10 years ago.
Champion pays more attention to the matter and
Data collected by Talor and also survey made by Specialty Coffee
speaks up, we will make a great progress.” In her
Association of America (SCAA) showed that among 712 baristas,
further career, Talor also sets an example of hiring
women who had higher education get $7000 less than their male
women according to their abilities, and, seeing two
colleagues with the same level of education. And Talor can relate
thing of same quality, she prefers to by one, which
to this; she lives in Oslo (Norway), where salaries are not low at
was made by a woman, hoping to make everyone
all, being a head of roaster and having a big industry experience,
pay more attention to women abilities. And we
she still gets only 42000 dollars/year (3500 dollars/month);
cannot help but wonder, what is an actual women’s
“Even going to work in MacDonald’s will give you more than
place in every step of coffee industry? Let’s figure
this” – said Talor. That is what encouraged her to start “Specialty
it out together.
Coffee Industry Gender Discrimination” survey.
Rough coffee road
Even in 2002, when Talor just started
working in the industry and growing to become
the head of Tim Wendelboe roastery brand, she
was interested in where women stand in the cof-
fee business. She found out that specialty coffee
industry treat female workers more tradition-
ally, and often women themselves do it, too.
In 2009, Talor won the third price in some
coffee competitions in Victoria region, which
led her to participate in national competition,
but, after doing everything by herself and fac-
ing “male environment”, she decided to give up.
Several years after, when Talor said that she was
unable to accompany another female contes-
tant, her competitor used similar reason to give
up. And only at that point, judges realized the
real reason of it. In her career, Taler is braver
and braver each day, studying how to roast cof-
fee beans, which made her top female roaster.
Mastered her knowledge of the business, Talor
created her own brand, Talor&Jørgen, and, in
September in 2015,she also opened a roastery:
“I used to be very quiet and obedient, now it is
time to be brave!” , said Talor.

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