Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer, has kicked up all sorts of controversy with her argument that career women can be their own worst enemy and should “lean in” more to their jobs and their ambitions. But the biggest, largely unspoken problem is not that she is elitist, or placing blame in the wrong place. [...]
It’s time to celebrate! Here’s a fun and free way to celebrate Mother’s Day! Check out MomsRising’s Mother’s Day video you can customize and send your mom (or to yourself!). Check it out here: http://momdance.com Every year, MomsRising comes up with a creative way to tell Mom she’s the best. This year, the inspiration came [...]
This week, Martha Roby (R-AL) will introduce the same discredited comp time bill that leaders in her party have been pushing for years. Misleadingly titled “The Working Families Flexibility Act,” HR 1406 would permit private sector employers to offer compensation time in lieu of overtime pay to their hourly work force. At first glance the [...]
Last week, I joined hundreds of striking fast-food workers on the streets of Harlem, where they held signs that read “I am a Man” and “I am a Woman” and chanted: “You can’t survive on $7.25.” The demonstration, led by workers struggling to survive on the minimum wage, recalled the organizing that Dr. Martin Luther [...]
As one of 11 kids in a migrant farm worker family, I toiled in the fields of California’s Central Valley under the bleakest of conditions in the 1950s and ‘60s, before Cesar Chavez’s movement offered us any relief. Getting sick or injured or showing symptoms of pesticide poisoning were not options. If they happened, you [...]
I’m having a head/desk day. You know the kind; where you just want to bang your head on your desk because you’re so frustrated. Why? Because today is Equal Pay Day – the day that marks how far into 2013 women have to work to earn what men earned for the same work in 2012. And at the rate we’re going, left [...]
Here we are again. Another Equal Pay Day to mark how far into this year that women have to work to earn what men already earned last year for the SAME work. This makes me want to bang my head on my desk in frustration. Which I will do: Once. And then it’s time to [...]
This blog post is also part of the National Women’s Law Center Equal Pay Day Blog Carnival. (Photo on right: My hubby and I at his surprise 40th birthday party a year ago. It’s not only women who are affected by the wage gap.) Working as a campaign staffer at MomsRising.org, I have known about the wage gap, [...]
My name is Duane Davis, and I’m a proud father of my beautiful five-year-old daughter. I worked at Juicy Couture’s flagship store on 5th Avenue in New York City for almost four years in the stock department, filling Juicy’s shelves with $200 track suits. When I started, I got 40 hours a week and was [...]
Let me tell you about Myrla. Myrla is a professional homecare worker. Her work allows her clients — seniors and people with disabilities — to live with dignity at home. Her hours are long and hard: Often Myrla works over 50 hours a week for less than minimum wage. She struggles to provide for her [...]
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