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Have you ever tried running a track meet where the gun goes off last for you?
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Have you ever tried running a track meet where the gun goes off last for you?
Clearly, the effects of mass incarceration extend beyond the individual cells that hold black women back by disrupting the lives of the people who need them most.
The level of sexual discrimination is particularly visible in the criminal justice system, where sixty percent of incarcerated women are in jail awaiting trial because they can’t afford bail.
The publication of the data has put the issue of the gender pay gap, and gender equality at work overall, very much on the national media agenda.
The court case, Janus v. AFSCME Council 31, is backed by the top wealthy 1% looking to rig the economy even further in their favor.
So far, only Trump, Fiorina and Graham have commented on the gender pay gap during the campaign, but they all have track records on this issue. Here’s a quick run-down of what we could find.
Supervisor David Campos introduced the legislation in the hope it will have national influence on income inequality policy. A source of San Francisco’s divide between “haves and have-nots,” he says, is the gap in how men and women are being paid.
In an Equal Pay Day gathering at New York’s City Hall on April 8 speakers proposed a variety of ways to close the gender pay gap. Public Advocate Letitia James said the City Council needs local control over its minimum wage.
The worst pay disparities are not male-female, they are experienced by people of color, writes Melody Wilson.