Why doesn’t this vintage Batgirl PSA feel all that … vintage-y?

Can we send Batgirl to deal with all the folks who keep blocking attempts to fix the gender pay gap? Women STILL make only 78 cents to a man’s dollar, and it’s been decades since this PSA aired.

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Rebecca Eisenberg

Mar 14, 2013

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