Today marks the end of the fiscal year for women. Women still only make 77 percent of what our male counterparts make. So we have to work an extra 23% to break even with men. In calendar terms, that means today would be the end of our fiscal year as opposed to December 31. Our [...]
United States federal laws exist to protect women in the workplace, such as the Equal Pay Act of 1963, which prohibits the distribution of unequal pay between the sexes and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination in employment decisions on the basis of gender. According to U.S. Census data, [...]
I worked at the same part-time job from my sophomore year of high school to my sophomore year of college at a retail store in my hometown. I faithfully worked every Christmas Eve for the holiday rush over my winter breaks, and scrubbed what seemed like thousands of puddles on the floor from customers’ dirty [...]
By Fatima Goss Graves, Vice President for Education and Employment at the National Women’s Law Center For this 14th #HERvotes blog carnival, we’re blogging about equal pay and the need for the Paycheck Fairness Act – which will be on the Senate floor for a vote next week. Why do we need the Paycheck Fairness [...]
When I was a kid, May 1st meant giving and receiving May Day baskets from my friends. Today it just means I have to pay my rent. But for the world, May 1st signifies a beautiful fight – one that has for over a century stood for the rights of workers and an end to [...]
The 39th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion is fast approaching, so on January 23rd let’s sit back and let the joy of abortion access just wash over us. Wait, scratch that. What’s been going on in this country since the last Roe anniversary? 2011 saw an unprecedented number of abortion restrictions [...]
Recent college graduates continue to face a tough job market, two and a half years out from the so-called end of the Great Recession in June 2009. College tuition has grown faster than inflation or family income. As the cost of a four-year degree has risen, so has college debt, but default on those loans [...]
This is Part 2 of a blog series on Feminism and the Occupy movement. Read Part 1: Why Feminists Should Care About the Occupy Movement. Occupy Wall Street, which began just 60 days ago in protest of the growing economic inequality of our country has quickly become Occupy America, as it has spread to hundreds, [...]
This is Part 1 of a blog series on Feminism and the Occupy movement As a feminist activist and an occupier, I have not felt any disconnect between the two roles. I am a feminist because I want to actively work to eradicate the systemic oppression of women and people of color. I am an [...]
In considering the crisis of teenage unemployment, I realize how lucky I am to have gotten my current job at Temple Sinai. In the Jewish community where I live, many parents send their children from kindergarten through tenth grade to Hebrew school. It was through this process that I was identified as a leader and [...]
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