Welcome to Interviews for Resistance. Since election night 2016, the streets of the United States have rung with resistance. People all over the country have woken up with the conviction that they must do something to fight inequality in all its forms. But many are wondering what it is they can do. In this series, …
Interviews for Resistance: The March 8 Strike Is About Building Feminism for the 99% Read More »
Shelly Kapoor Collins had spent more than 10 decades in technology, but she felt that something was still missing from her career. “I knew that I loved tech, but I never quite understood the concept of working for someone else,” she said. And eventually, the mother of a 10-month-old daughter who was pregnant with a …
The Country’s Job Creators Are Increasingly Women Of Color Read More »
There isn’t just a gender wage gap among the highest-paid employees in the country. Pay for female executives also drops further when companies perform poorly compared to men but rises less during good times. In a new note about their research, Federal Reserve Bank of New York economists Stefania Albanesi, Claudia Olivetti, and Maria Prados find …
Female Executives Aren’t Just Paid Less, They Also Suffer More For Bad Performance Read More »
Women will not receive the same median annual pay as men until 2058, if current earnings patterns continue without change, announced the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) this week. “Progress in closing the gender wage gap has stalled during the most recent decade. The wage gap is still at the same level as it was …
Unless Something Changes, it Will Take Women 45 Years to Earn as Much as Men Read More »
When I think of working women, I think of SEIU 32BJ District 615 member Yocelin Ratchell. Yocelin works part-time as a baggage agent with Logan Airport in Boston. Her dream? To have benefits that include sick paid leave so that when her children are sick, she can take care of them and not have to …
Imagine the pilot episode of a revival of the 1970’s situation comedy “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.” It is July 2013. After a painful break-up with her fiancé, 30-year-old Mary Richards relocates to Des Moines, Iowa, to start a new life. Mary interviews for a secretarial position at a local television station with Executive Producer …
More than four in 10 private-sector workers and 80% of low-wage workers do not have paid sick days. This means people, especially women who are more likely to work in low-wage jobs, constantly have to choose between their health and a paycheck. A post in Jezebel, brought to you by the AFL-CIO, explains why the lack of …
80% of Low-Wage Workers Lack Even One Paid Sick Day a Year Read More »
One of the stats that always amazes is this: If the federal minimum wage had kept pace with the rising cost of living over the past 40 years, it would be $10.52 per hour today. Instead, the minimum wage is $7.25 an hour. That translates to $15,080 per year, below the poverty line for a …
From birth control pills to equal pay, women are a favorite target in the country’s most heated political wars. But a much quieter struggle is being waged over women’s bodies in their neighborhoods and workplaces, where a minefield of pollutants threaten working mothers and their children. According to new research from the the National Birth …
Working Women’s Bodies Besieged by Environmental Injustice Read More »
The New York Times’ Catherine Rampell highlighted data from Payscale, a salary tracking firm, showing that “by the time women reach age 39, their wage growth pretty much stops altogether.” By that age, the average college-educated, full-time female worker is making about $60,000. For men, meanwhile, wage growth doesn’t stop until age 48. This post originally appeared …
Chart: Averge Woman’s Wages Stop Growing When She Turns 39 Read More »
Madeline Messa is a 3L at Syracuse University College of Law. She graduated from Penn State with a degree in journalism. With her legal research and writing for Workplace Fairness, she strives to equip people with the information they need to be their own best advocate.
