On Equal Pay Day, NOW Reaffirms Commitment to Closing Gender-Race Wage Gap

Released on April 4, 2017

Women still earn, on average, just 80 cents for every dollar earned by a white man. From this number, it is obvious that an embarrassing pay inequity exists between women and men in the United States. What’s not obvious is the way this inequity is magnified for women of color.

Schools Must Protect Girls of Color–in DC and across the US

Released on March 29, 2017

Instead of dismissing the District’s missing Black and Latina girls as “runaways,” we need to ask whether their schools failed to give them the attention, compassion, and resources they may have needed. Their lives matter.