To commemorate this year’s Women’s History Month theme, which celebrates women who advocate for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), the DEIA team explored their reflections of the significance of this month and its dedicated theme.
Women’s History Unsung Hero: Celebrating the Advocacy of Florynce Kennedy
To commemorate Women’s History Month, Hodan Deria, 2024 Spring DEIA Intern highlights Florynce “Flo” Kennedy for her life-long dedication to advocacy. Through her activism for civil rights, feminism, and LGBTQ+ rights, Kennedy’s legacy continues to inspire and inform discussions on equity, diversity, and inclusion.
The Gender Rage Gap
Female rage is worthy of celebration and praise – without it women’s history would be radically different from what it is today.
Setting the Record Straight: The Truth About the Wage Gap
In 2019, a poll revealed that nearly half of men believe that the wage gap is “made up.” It’s time to set the record straight.
Black women and Latinas are joining the job market – but are they finding the jobs they’re searching for? | #JobsDay March 2024
For Women’s History Month, we celebrate the progress we have made while acknowledging the persistent inequities that remain in our labor market.
Our Bodies to Our Votes — The Attack on Our Individual Freedoms
The Dobbs decision poses a fundamental threat to key pillars of a functioning democracy by diluting constitutional and federal protections, preferencing state power over individual freedoms, and handing over greater control to existing – and often, biased – power structures…
Bills in Limbo aren’t Helping Black Mothers
In honor of Black History Month, this piece highlights the Black Maternal Health Momnibus act as a labor of love and how keeping these bills in limbo isn’t helping black mothers.
“The Math Ain’t Mathing”: Black Women in Hollywood and the Wage Gap
In light of Taraji P. Henson’s recent interview with Gayle King, this piece discusses how Hollywood continues to undervalue and under pay Black Women actors.
Black women still face inequities in today’s strong labor market | #JobsDay February 2024
January’s jobs report shows another strong job month for the economy, but persistent inequities underscore the need to center Black women in our economic policymaking.
Fifteen Years After Ledbetter, Here’s Why We Need to Pass the Paycheck Fairness Act
The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act was an important step towards closing the wage gap. Since 2009, the wage gap has shrunk by 7 cents. Despite the progress made, there is far more work to be done to eliminate the wage gap that robs the United States’ economy of over 1 trillion dollars a year.
Did the economy deliver for women in 2023? Will it in 2024? | #JobsDay January 2024
The economy ended 2023 strong, but women of color are not getting their fair share.
In the Year of the Union, Black women and Latinas lead union growth in 2023
Latinas see the largest increase in union membership rates among women despite little change in overall share of union membership.
New Census proposal would reduce the number of disabled women and girls counted by nearly 10 million
A new proposal from Census would change the definition of disability in the American Community Survey, reducing the official count of disabled people by 40 percent. This change could have significant implications for supports for disabled people.
How the Wage Gap Persists Beyond Working Years, Especially for Black and Latina Women
Many don’t realize the gender wage gap continues to impact women beyond working years. With longer life expectancies than men, the gender wage gap quickly turns into a retirement income gap, meaning women have fewer resources to stretch over longer periods when they may be unable to work or more vulnerable to health complications.
Black Women & Birthing People: We Inherit Joy, Too
Black women, in particular, are no strangers to traumatic experiences or being forced to be “strong” and “resilient” in the face of said trauma and, yet, somehow, finding joy anyhow. This is especially true for Black maternal health.
Latinas/xs Need Abortion Justice and Economic Justice
Given the increased economic resources required to access abortions in many communities post-Dobbs, Latinas in these 26 states who face large wage gaps are particularly likely to be harmed.
Unadmitted and Undiagnosed: Race-Conscious Admissions Matter for Rare Disease Diagnosis
The recent upheaval of affirmative action in higher education will harm patients of color. This harm could be particularly pronounced for patients of color with rare diseases, who are systematically undiagnosed, misdiagnosed, and left to fend for themselves in an overwhelmingly white medical system.
“Hot Strike Summer:” How Increased Union Actions Stand to Benefit Women Workers
Unions play a significant role in helping women, especially women of color, by minimizing the pay gap through strengthening negotiating positions and providing transparent pay scales.
Moms’ Equal Pay Day Spotlight: Single Mothers, Poverty, and the Wage Gap
Single mothers work hard, yet sometimes hard work is simply not enough. Thanks to a myriad of structural, cultural and organizational barriers moms face to employment and career advancement, mothers are paid only 74 cents for every dollar paid to fathers – single moms are hit hardest by this gap.
Women’s unpaid caregiving is worth more than $625 billion – and it could cost more
Women in the United States do twice as much caregiving as men, though both men and women face financial burdens due to unpaid carework.
