No "Mrs. Monopoly" for my children, says Mom

An economist at the Heritage Foundation said that the publisher of the best-selling board game in history sends the wrong message to girls giving them a "run-in" on the boys.

The new version of Hasbro 's popular "Monopoly" board game is designed to allow players to earn more money than players. According to the video game maker, the idea is to make people aware of the "gender pay gap," where women earn less than men who do the same job. Hasbro qualifies the game as the first game "where women earn more than men". (Related article)

"With all that surrounds the empowerment of women, it just seemed to present this to Monopoly in a new and new way," said Jen Boswinkel, Hasbro's executive officer. USA today. "It gives the subject some relevance to everyone who plays it that everyone else has – and this time, women get a benefit in the beginning."

Rachel Greszler, researcher in economics, budget and rights for the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, said that "Mrs. Monopoly" was no help to remedy the situation.

"I think it's actually teaching the wrong message to boys and girls, men and women," she continues. "This suggests that women need a long time in advance to be able to be on an equal footing or succeed men – and that's the bad thing we should be telling women . "

Greszler, a mother of three boys and three girls, says that she does not want her kids to play this game.

"I do not want girls to sit down thinking that they need an advantage or boast that one way or another against boys that they do not want them to do it. they have a length in advance, and then the boys want them, "she explains.

"And then what happens if the girls win? [The boys say] Well, they won only because they had a length in advance. And what happens if the boys win? [They say] Well, whoa, the girls must have been so much inferior to [us] that even with this advance, they could not catch up. "

Greszler acknowledges that there is a pay gap between men and women in the United States, "but this results from the different choices made by men and women and we want them to be able to make these choices."