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 [...]
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 [...]
Two days ago, the Feminist Majority Foundation joined several other women’s nonprofits in Washington, D.C. to protest the anti-woman, pro-corporation Supreme Court decision in Dukes v. Wal-Mart. Women and men gathered at the steps of the Supreme Court for the Rally in Solidarity with the Women of Wal-Mart, a rally organized by the National Women’s [...]
Congratulations women, as of today you have earned as much money as your male counterparts did in the year 2010: it only took you 16 months! Equal Pay Day takes place on April 12th each year as a way to symbolize the amount of time women must work into the following year to earn the [...]
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