Oil companies want you to think they’re feminist. It’s BS.
By Alexandria Herr Monday was International Women’s Day, and oil [...]
Asian American and Pacific Islander Equal Pay Day Reveals Racial Challenges Despite Model Minority Stereotype
Over the past year, the COVID-19 pandemic has hit AAPI [...]
New Report Lifts up the Voices of Black, Latina and Afro-Latina Women in the Construction Trades
Washington, D.C. – A new policy brief, “Here to Stay: Black, Latina and Afro-Latina Women in Construction Trades Apprenticeships and Employment,” highlights that while the number of Black women apprentices grew by over 50 percent and the number of Latina apprentices nearly doubled between 2016 and 2019, Black and Latina women remain severely underrepresented (3.6 percent) in federally registered trade apprenticeships.
New Report Lifts Up Black, Latina, and Afro-Latina Women’s Voices in Construction Trades
March 7th-13th is Women in Construction Week. For women who [...]
Light in the Darkness: Feminist Leaders Revolutionizing Democracy
By Kavita Nandini Ramdas Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, women [...]
New Jobs Numbers Show that Women Recovered fewer than Half of All Jobs Lost since February 2020
Washington, DC— While new Employment Situation data for February shows a 245,000 increase in women’s jobs on payroll (64.6% of all added jobs), women are still 5.1 million jobs below February 2020, compared with 4.4 million fewer jobs on payroll for men; at its deepest level in April 2020 women’s payroll employment was down 12.1 million.
Weekly News Roundup – March 1 to 5, 2021
Activism on the Frontlines (03/04/21) When it comes to Myanmar’s [...]
Gender Wage Gap Shrinks in 2020 Due to Tremendous Job Losses for Lowest Paid – Racial and Ethnic Disparities Persist
Washington, DC – A new policy brief, The Weekly Gender Wage Gap by Race and Ethnicity: 2020 from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR), provides the first data on COVID-19’s impact on the gender wage gap. It finds that the wage gap narrowed, but reasons for the change point to growing inequality instead of progress for women. Women’s average earnings increased more than men’s because lowest paid women were the most likely to lose jobs during the COVID-19 shecession – and are no longer counted in the average women’s weekly median earnings. As a result of the missing lowest-paid women, the gender wage gap narrowed, between all women and men, and between women and men by race and ethnicity.
‘People came forward’: Andrew Cuomo harassment allegations show the success of #MeToo and the challenges ahead
By Charisse Jones Nearly four years after the #MeToo movement [...]
Pushed out by pandemic, women struggle to regain footing in U.S. job market
By Jonnelle Marte and Aleksandra Michalska (Reuters) - Katy McAvoy [...]
