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Want Equal Pay? Get Employees Talking About Their Paychecks

Want Equal Pay? Get Employees Talking About Their Paychecks

By Kim Elsesser March 24th is Equal Pay Day. This date symbolizes the extra three months into the year that women must work to earn the same amount of money their male counterparts took home in the previous year alone. The gap in pay between men [...]

March 11, 2021|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: Equal Pay / Pay Equity, Forbes, Pay Secrecy|

One year of the pandemic, as told through the journal entries of 6 women
One year of the pandemic, as told through the journal entries of 6 women

One year of the pandemic, as told through the journal entries of 6 women

By Lindsey Sitz and Maya Lin Sugarman It’s been one year since the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus a pandemic. The Lily found six women across the country who kept diaries throughout the last 12 months. Listen as they read their reflections aloud. Susana [...]

March 11, 2021|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: COVID-19, Pandemic, The Washington Post|

‘Sounding the Alarm’: Jacksonville research center finds Black girls receive unfair punishment
‘Sounding the Alarm’: Jacksonville research center finds Black girls receive unfair punishment

‘Sounding the Alarm’: Jacksonville research center finds Black girls receive unfair punishment

By Beth Reese Cravey Black girls are "disproportionately punished" in the education and juvenile justice systems, from school suspension to incarceration, according to a new report from the Jacksonville-based Delores Barr Weaver Policy Center. Only 21 percent of Florida girls ages 10 to 17 are Black, but in [...]

March 11, 2021|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: girls education, Juvenile Justice, Race and Ethnicity, The Florida-Times Union|

Why Biden’s job is about to get harder
Why Biden’s job is about to get harder

Why Biden’s job is about to get harder

By Sam Stein With help from Myah Ward and Joanne Kenen HARD SELL — On the doorstep of signing a $1.9 trillion Covid relief bill into law, Joe Biden is already planning how to sell it to the public. But what if it can’t be [...]

March 9, 2021|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: Biden Administration, Politico|

Oil companies want you to think they’re feminist. It’s BS.
Oil companies want you to think they’re feminist. It’s BS.

Oil companies want you to think they’re feminist. It’s BS.

By Alexandria Herr Monday was International Women’s Day, and oil companies want you to know — they’re feminists, too! Shell, Chevron, and even the American Petroleum Institute, the oil industry’s biggest lobbying group, posted messages about the importance of women in the oil and gas [...]

March 9, 2021|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: Grist, Women in New Orleans|

New Report Lifts up the Voices of Black, Latina and Afro-Latina Women in the Construction Trades
New Report Lifts up the Voices of Black, Latina and Afro-Latina Women in the Construction Trades

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.

March 8, 2021|Categories: Press Releases|Tags: COnstruction, Employment and Earnings, Equal Pay, Women|

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Want Equal Pay? Get Employees Talking About Their Paychecks

One year of the pandemic, as told through the journal entries of 6 women

‘Sounding the Alarm’: Jacksonville research center finds Black girls receive unfair punishment

Why Biden’s job is about to get harder

Oil companies want you to think they’re feminist. It’s BS.

New Report Lifts up the Voices of Black, Latina and Afro-Latina Women in the Construction Trades

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