SANDY, Utah – A Utah high school Young Democrats Club held a bake sale this week as a means of fighting gender inequality.

Cookies for boys went for $1, while girls were charged 77 cents.

The bake sale was designed to highlight the statistic that women earn roughly 77 percent of what men do in the United States, The Salt Lake Tribune reports.

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“It’s not fair that just because I was born a woman I only get paid 77 cents,” Jordan High School Young Democrats Club President Kari Schott told Fox 13. “For every dollar a man makes a woman makes only 77 cents, so we’re having the cookies be a dollar for a man and only 77 cents for a woman.”

Some student thought the idea was sweet.

“I hope to see that everybody gets paid the same like even men, women, different races — that we all get paid the same and equal because we’re all humans,” junior Alex Call said.

Others didn’t like the idea very much at all and they took out their frustrations both online and in person.

“Congratulations on being an example of the problem rather than an example with solutions,” Nungwa posted to the Tribune comments.

“A lot of people were angry, they would try to get into fights with me,” Schott told the Tribune.

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“There’s a lot of BS in those cookies,” NOBODY commented on Fox 13.

Regardless, Schott and her supporters were undaunted.

“It was definitely scary to do to be in front of my fellow students especially when there were people coming around telling me that I’m stupid saying they’re bad ideas. It’s scary but I’m proud as a club we are doing this,” she told Fox 13.

Jordan High School Principal Tom Sherwood applauded the club’s efforts, which raised over $150.

“The students are bringing issues of awareness in the school to issues that affect our society as a whole that some kids most of the kids in our school aren’t aware of — it’s great some proactive students are bringing it to their attention,” Sherwood said.

The event even prompted a visit by state Rep. Justin Miller, a Democrat from Salt Lake City, according to the group’s Facebook page.

“Big thanks you to Rep. Miller for coming out and supporting today!!!” Jordan High School Young Democrats posted.

It’s not the first time that a public figure has patted the group on the back.

David Axelrod supposedly wrote an email to the group the morning before the 2014 elections.

“I was gratified that you came to hear me speak on Saturday and so moved by your kind words. But most of all, I am proud of what you are doing as leader of the Young Democrats at Jordan High,” Axelrod wrote, according to the email posted by the group to Facebook.

“We so desperately need young people like you to help shape the future,” the Nov. 3 email read.