A separate report by the National Partnership for Women and Families recently indicated that women in Ohio have a wider pay gap than those nationwide. The report shows the wage gap between fully employed men and women in Ohio sits at $11,586. By comparison, the national wage gap is $10,622 per year.
Release Thursday at Congressional Briefing Focused on Paid Sick Days
In our time, feminist and women’s groups, including MomsRising.org and the National Partnership for Women and Families, have led the way in promoting work-life balance policies, demanding paid family leave, paid sick days, and flexible hours.
Testimony of Portia Wu, Vice President, National Partnership for Women & Families
Boston Globe They are an acknowledgment of the realities of family life today, says Portia Wu, vice president of the National Partnership for Women & Families: Four in … Boston Globe Editorial Argues For Increased …
… maternity leave–said Debra L. Ness, the president of the National Partnership for Women & Families, in a press statement released July 30. …
Statement of Debra L. Ness, President, National Partnership for Women & Families
Statement of Debra L. Ness, President, National Partnership for Women & Families
Statement of Debra Ness, President, National Partnership for Women & Families
Debra Ness, who is president of the National Partnership for Women and Families, says there’s growing recognition that paid sick leave benefits employers, as well as employees.
Statement of Debra L. Ness, President, National Partnership for Women & Families
By Overwhelming Majorities and Across All Demographic Groups,
Americans Say All Workers Should Have Paid Sick Days
Public Welfare Foundation to Release Results of Public Opinion Survey on Paid Sick Days
Newsweek “It’s more cost effective for companies to discriminate,” says Portia Wu, vice president of the National Partnership for Women & Families. …
“This money is really important. Already, about half of the states are doing something to move toward paid leave — holding hearings or introducing legislation,” says Debra Ness, president of the National Partnership for Women and Families. “This could be the push that would enable them to take that next step.”
The pressure on lower and lower-middle class families trying to raise children has been well-documented by Jody Heymann, a prominent researcher at McGill University in Canada, and advocacy groups such as the National Partnership for Women and Families and MomsRising.org have fought for changes.
47th Anniversary of Equal Pay Act Thursday Shines Spotlight on Wage Gap,
Urgent Need to Pass Paycheck Fairness Act
The National Partnership for Women & Families will honor Kathleen Sebelius, United States Secretary of Health and Human Services, at its 2010 Annual Luncheon on June 24
A few years later, I became executive director of the Women’s Legal Defense Fund (now the National Partnership for Women and Families). In that post I fought to increase the number of female judges on the federal bench.
“Health reform was a giant step forward, but working people need to be able to access health care,” said Debra Ness, President of the National Partnership for Women and Families. “The best system in the world does no good to a worker who can’t take time off to visit a doctor or get a test.”
