Female players get $240 for passing Go in MsMonopoly, while men pocket just $200.
Hasbro is trying to level the playing board with its new “Ms. Monopoly” game, where female players get $240 for passing Go, while men pocket just $200.
— Connor Stone September 10, 2019 Still others fear that rather than being “woke,” this new game night addition is perpetuating the gender pay gap that it’s meant to address. Buying properties in the game is replaced with funding inventions and innovations developed by women throughout history — including Wi-Fi, solar heating, modern shapewear and chocolate chip cookies. And instead of building houses and hotels, players build business headquarters for these startups. A Hasbro spokesperson told MarketWatch that more than 30 women were involved in “Ms. Monopoly’s” creation.
Many men and women took issue with that on social media, however, stating that the original game already started with everyone on equal footing, and the man or woman who played their cards right could win the game without any handicaps. — Kristy September 10, 2019 And some social media users noted that the original “Monopoly” mastermind was a woman — Elizabeth “Lizzie” Magie, who filed a legal claim for her “Landlord’s Game” more than three decades before Parker Brothers began making “Monopoly” as we know it today.
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