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Jeannie Rickey

Jeannie Rickey is the director of the Office of Admissions Processing at Texas Woman's University and a public voices fellow with The OpEd Project. Prior to that, she spent 21 years in the corporate world, in various finance and human resources roles.

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My Mom Taught Me Why Minimum Wage is Women’s Issue

By Jeannie Rickey & Por Alison Bowen ● Employment ● August 4, 2015

She woke up every morning at 4:30 a.m., made lunches, cooked a hot breakfast for the family (I’m talking bacon and eggs) and then drove an hour north of where we lived to work in an enclosed room with no ventilation, applying airplane glue to seams on rainwear.