Today the National Organization for Women and our allies are calling attention to the persistent wage gap between women and men by observing Equal Pay Day. This year we pause on April 24 — symbolizing the day that women workers finally “get out of the red” and their 2006-2007 earnings finally equal men’s earnings from last year alone.
The National Organization for Women has been a leading advocate in the United States for the rights of women for over forty years. NOW’s mission is to fight against discrimination and seek to bring full equality to girls and women regardless of their age, race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, physical and intellectual abilities, marital or socio-economic status.
La Organización Nacional para las Mujeres, en cumplimiento de su misión de luchar contra la discriminación hasta alcanzar la total igualdad para las niñas y mujeres independientemente de su edad, raza, religión, identidad étnica, orientación sexual, capacidad física e intelectual, estado civil o condición socioeconómica, ha liderado la defensa y promoción de los derechos de las mujeres en Estados Unidos durante más de 40 años.
Legal Momentum and the National Organization for Women (NOW) today filed complaints with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) alleging sex discrimination in 34 of the first 100 programs funded by the Bush Administration under its new “Responsible Fatherhood” initiative. According to the program summaries on the HHS web site, the 34 programs are providing job training services to men but not to women.
Too many magazines and organizations set a low bar for honoring “family-friendly” companies, writes Ann Friedman.