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How the ERA can Keep Incarcerated Mothers in their Children’s Lives
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 ERA: Why Black Women Need It 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.
2018: Already a Stand-out Year for Gender Equality in the UK
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.
Calling on the Supreme Court: Don’t Widen the Asian American Woman Pay Gap
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.
GOP Candidates Have Little Good to Say About Equal Pay
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.
San Francisco Aims To Close Pay Gap
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.
Big Apple Women Push to Get Out of the Red
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.
Color Lines Create Widest Pay Gaps
The worst pay disparities are not male-female, they are experienced by people of color, writes Melody Wilson.
