Thanks to the state courts and legislature, as of May 1, abortion access in Florida is now more restricted than ever under the state’s near-total ban. The impact will resonate throughout the state, harming women and hurting the state economy.
Thanks to the state courts and legislature, as of May 1, abortion access in Florida is now more restricted than ever under the state’s near-total ban. The impact will resonate throughout the state, harming women and hurting the state economy.
Moms’ Equal Pay Day—taking place on August 7 this year—is a day to draw attention to the longstanding wage gap mothers in the workforce endure. IWPR’s latest fact sheet finds that mothers earn less than fathers in every single state. Nationally, employed mothers were paid just 62.5 cents per dollar paid to fathers in 2022. Mothers who worked full-time year-round were paid 71.4 cents per dollar compared to fathers. There are several intersectional challenges that contribute to the wage gap [...]
Two years ago, on a morning in late June, the Supreme Court issued a ruling in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case, overturning the landmark Roe v. Wade decision and upending abortion access in the United States. Since then, we have witnessed a dizzying landscape of draconian abortion bans, new restrictions, and reverberating impacts throughout the country. But in the two years since the Dobbs ruling, we have also seen unprecedented civic action to push through ballot [...]
Pride Month has come and gone, and so has the over-the-top corporate support for the LGBTQ+ community. Throughout June, companies turn their logos rainbow, hang Pride flags from windows, and make questionable posts declaring “allyship” on social media. And yet, time and time again, companies have shown that their support for LGBTQ+ people is conditional on profitability. This marketing is glaringly inauthentic. In 2023, conservative backlash to LGBTQ+ inclusive campaigns set off a wave of boycotts, causing major brands to [...]
Black Women’s Equal Pay Day—a day to bring awareness to the extreme pay inequity that Black women face in the United States—is on July 9 this year. A new fact sheet from IWPR finds that, across the country, Black women with earnings make 66.5 cents for every dollar a White man makes. Black women face many barriers to achieving pay equity, including pay discrimination, occupational segregation, and obstacles to educational attainment. To achieve pay equity, IWPR proposes passing policy solutions [...]
This year, June 13 marks LGBTQIA+ Equal Pay Awareness Day—a day to recognize the wage gap between lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQIA+) workers and their straight and cisgender counterparts. On average, in 2021, LGBTQIA+ workers earned 90 cents per dollar compared to all full-time workers in the United States. Women in this community earned 87 cents per dollar compared to the average wage for all workers across the labor market, while LGBTQIA+ men made 96 cents per dollar. [...]
This blog originally appeared on the Policies for Action (P4A) website. The importance of paid sick leave was underscored in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. As the world grappled with the challenges of a global health crisis, the simple act of staying home when feeling unwell became a critical strategy in curbing the spread of the virus. Yet even though the pandemic shed light on the necessity of paid sick leave, the question remains which workers have or do [...]
