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Why Aren’t We All Talking About Breonna Taylor?
Why Aren’t We All Talking About Breonna Taylor?

Why Aren’t We All Talking About Breonna Taylor?

By Alisha Haridasani Gupta Like George Floyd, she was also killed by the police, but her case remains largely disconnected from the broader narrative. For years, black women have faced a double bind of racial and gender discrimination. According to a 2017 report by the Institute for [...]

June 4, 2020|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: Racial and Ethnic Discrimination and Inequality, The New York Times NYT, Violence Against Women|

Millennials are facing the worst economic odds in history. It’s worse for women.
Millennials are facing the worst economic odds in history. It’s worse for women.

Millennials are facing the worst economic odds in history. It’s worse for women.

By Rachael Allen Their uncertain future is now defined not by dreams but by getting by Ana Hernández Kent, a policy analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, has also analyzed just how wide the millennial wealth gap still is — while millennial white households [...]

June 4, 2020|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: Millennials, The Lily, Unemployment|

Why Equal Pay Day For Moms Will Be Later Next Year
Why Equal Pay Day For Moms Will Be Later Next Year

Why Equal Pay Day For Moms Will Be Later Next Year

By Rebekah Bastian The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy Since childcare centers and schools have closed down due to Covid-19, a study by Cleo found that more than 50% of families surveyed do not have childcare, and 20% of families are considering having one parent leave the workforce to care for [...]

June 4, 2020|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: Equal Pay / Pay Equity, Equal Pay Day, Forbes, Press EPD, Working Mothers|

A Decade’s Worth of Progress for Working Women Evaporated Overnight
A Decade’s Worth of Progress for Working Women Evaporated Overnight

A Decade’s Worth of Progress for Working Women Evaporated Overnight

By Shelly Banjo Men have not been spared, but preliminary research suggests women have been impacted disproportionately. The pandemic has already ushered in the highest unemployment rate since the Great Depression. Last year, women made up the majority of the U.S. workforce for the first [...]

June 3, 2020|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: Bloomberg, COVID-19, Pandemic, Unemployment|

America Never Valued Care Workers. Then a Pandemic Hit.
America Never Valued Care Workers. Then a Pandemic Hit.

America Never Valued Care Workers. Then a Pandemic Hit.

By Bryce Covert Now everyone knows teachers, child care providers, and health aides are essential workers. Will that finally get them the pay and protections they deserve? Care work, said Purdue University history professor Tithi Bhattacharya, is “life making and life sustaining.” Yet it “receives the [...]

June 1, 2020|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: Care Work, COVID-19, Pandemic, The Nation|

Unanswered Questions, Obvious Answers: Hunger in the Age of COVID
Unanswered Questions, Obvious Answers: Hunger in the Age of COVID

Unanswered Questions, Obvious Answers: Hunger in the Age of COVID

by ABBY J. LEIBMAN and LIZA LIEBERMAN For activists like us, it comes as no surprise that those who are most affected by these hostile actions are women—working women on the front lines as the majority of service workers, women who are single heads of households, women who are newly [...]

May 29, 2020|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: COVID-19, Ms., Pandemic|

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Why Aren’t We All Talking About Breonna Taylor?

Millennials are facing the worst economic odds in history. It’s worse for women.

Why Equal Pay Day For Moms Will Be Later Next Year

A Decade’s Worth of Progress for Working Women Evaporated Overnight

America Never Valued Care Workers. Then a Pandemic Hit.

Unanswered Questions, Obvious Answers: Hunger in the Age of COVID

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