PRO: Workplace discrimination holds women back
This isn’t a wage gap. It’s wage theft. And it’s not only stealing money from women, it’s stealing their future.
Category: Economic Justice
PRO: Workplace discrimination holds women back
According to the National Partnership for Women and Families, women who hold full-time jobs in the United States lose a combined total of more than $915 billion every year because of this wage gap.
Kept awake by worries, Melinda Gates pledges $1 billion to women’s rights
National Organization for Women head Toni Van Pelt wrote in an email that she welcomed Gates’ investment, saying: “The more we see women in positions of power and influence, the more it will become the norm rather than the exception.”
Media Advisory- Coalition Demands: Unlock the Future for Women and Girls in Immigration Prisons
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA – Immigrant families are being inhumanely locked away in horrific and immoral detention facilities in Southern California and around the nation and women and girls are suffering the most. Those fleeing to the U.S. are often seeking refuge from sexual violence, assault and poverty and they deserve a fair and humane immigration process. If they are to be held in Read more …
Feminists plan rally to support women held in immigration detention centers
A nonprofit that advocates for women’s issues like reproductive health care, is protesting against what they call “inhumane” conditions of women and girls in immigration detention centers.