Equal Pay Day: A Joint Blog Carnival With National Women’s Law Center
Today is not just Tax Day. It is also Equal Pay Day – the day that symbolizes how far into 2012 women must work to earn what men already earned in 2011. That’s right. Women have to work for 16.5 months to earn what men make in 12 months. Even though it is 2012 and [...]
The True Value of Work: A Blog Carnival Honoring Latinas and Equal Pay Day
Today is Equal Pay Day, which marks the end of the catch-up game women in the United States involuntarily play every year. But unlike most games, there is no grand prize. Instead, women receive a brutal reminder that it takes from all of 2011 until April 2012 —more than 100 days since the beginning of [...]
This is the Year to Close the Wage Gap
Tuesday, April 17 is Equal Pay Day, again. Equal Pay Day 2009 was impetus for my starting this blog. That day I dropped my son at school; at my request he was wearing red – one of the ways activists observe the day. As he was filing into class, I turned to a group of [...]
Low-Income Women & Their Families Can’t Afford a Gender Wage Gap
When you look at the budget of a low-income, single woman with children, one of the first things you’ll notice is that pretty much every dollar is reserved for the most basic necessities. In Washington, DC, half of her income might go toward childcare, another third could be reserved for rent, and the rest will [...]
California Restaurant Owner: Increase in Tipped Minimum Wage Good for Economy, Country
Para español, haga clic aquí. This is what happens in my restaurant Platano, a Salvadoran restaurant in Berkeley, California, every single day: It is a splendid morning or day like any other and our wait staff is at their jobs, attending customers or setting the tables or clearing dishes. The work that they do has [...]
Out of the kitchen and into the streets!
For hundreds of millions of working women across America, paycheck fairness is about the fact that, on average, women earn about seventy cents for every dollar a man makes. For the more than 5 million women in the restaurant industry, however, paycheck fairness is about that, and much more. In many cases, it’s about getting [...]
Women Are Worth More Than $2.13
By the age of 30 in 2012, I have already built a 15 year career in the restaurant industry. Hospitality runs in my family, so working with people, food and beverage has always been a passion of mine. Additionally, both of my parents are Marines; hard work, discipline, and pride for one’s country are values that [...]
A Small Doc for Equal Pay; A Giant Leap for One Woman
I’m making a film about the pay gap that I hope will ignite some serious change in the way America does business. Why I’m making this film. I started on this project last year after several years of working as a copywriter. Copywriting was one of those choices I’d stumbled on and stayed with out [...]
More Than a Date: The Connection Between Tax Day and Equal Pay Day
Equal Pay Day and Tax Day both fall on April 17 this year due to a simple calendar coincidence. But the connection between the two and the financial impact for women and especially mothers is no coincidence. April 17, 2012 is the day that symbolizes how far into 2012 a woman has to work to [...]
I worked in a restaurant as a server earning $2.65 and could not afford to eat.
I worked in a restaurant as a server earning $2.65 and could not afford to eat. Like many women across the country, I worked as a server at a neighborhood restaurant. During the year the job was fine, I made just enough money to cover my expenses. But when the summer came, even though I [ ...]
The Boss, The Big Man, Loss … and Caregiving
From Your (Wo)manInWashington blog MOTHERS changing the conversation @ www.MothersOughtToHaveEqualRights.org While I hunted for those last elusive hidden eggs, writer and end-of-life issues expert Janice Lynch Schuster graciously permitted me to cross post her thoughtful piece about Bruce, Clarence, aging and care. It originally appeared on the Disruptive Women in Health Care blog. When Clarence [...]
Live From Britain: 50 Things For Kids To Do Outdoors Before They Turn 12
by Judy Molland Britain’s National Trust, an organization that preserves outdoor spaces as well as historic buildings in the UK, earlier this year announced a campaignto improve people’s links with nature and wildlife. The Trust’s director general Fiona Reynolds said that in particular, children needed freedom to discover nature for themselves, stating her belief that [ ...]
National Healthcare Decisions Day: Amy’s Story
Compassion & Choices member Persis Oberreither, by completing an advance directive, inspired her teenage daughter to do the same. Here she tells of the heartbreak – and comfort – of honoring her daughter’s wishes. AMY’S STORY In recognition of National Healthcare Decisions Day, I want to share with you my first-hand knowledge of the incalculable [...]
Mother takes on Monsanto, wins global prize
Hats off to this mother of three who got fed up and took charge. Thirteen years ago, Sofía Gatica’s newborn died of kidney failure after being exposed to pesticides in the womb. After the despair came anger, then a fierce determination to protect the children in her community and beyond. Today, she’s one of six [...]
Bully: Go to the Movies. Save a Life
Bully is game changing in the way we think about and act on childhood bullying. What changes is the belief that bullying is simply a case of Kids Will Be Kids. Children are dying, and this movie tells the truth we don’t want to hear, but must hear.
Will there ever be a truce in the Mommy Wars?
Last Thursday an online tempest erupted when Hilary Rosen went on CNN to explain that she didn’t think Ann Romney was a worthy voice for America’s women because she “has actually never worked a day in her life.” The kerfluffle might seem familiar. Twenty years ago, Hillary Clinton came under fire for a remark she [...]
My Review – Pearls of Wisdom: 30 Inspirational Ideas to Live Your Best Life
I’ll admit it, I enjoy self help books. Mind you, I include Drive and political autobiographies like Worlds Apart in my repertoire of consciousness expanding literature, I also hold shelf space for the likes of Deepak Chopra, Wayne Dyer and poets like John O’Donohue. When I heard that my chapter “Take A Family Sabbatical” would be included in a [...]
It’s Not a “Mommy War,” It’s a War on Moms
There is no question that Hilary Rosen should have chosen her words more carefully when she said that Ann Romney, mother of five sons, “never worked a day in her life.” Raising children is work. It’s immensely rewarding work, but it’s work just the same. Ann Romney is justifiably proud of the work she’s done [...]
On Ann Romney and the “War on Moms”
There is no question that Hilary Rosen should have chosen her words more carefully when she said that Ann Romney “never worked a day in her life.” As an organization representing moms of all political persuasions across the country and run by moms, we at MomsRising know well that raising children is work. Caregiving is [...]
Rosen Vs. Romney
I’ve turned a deaf ear to the constant news about this “controversy” because I try to avoid getting too involved in faux controversies created by political strategists. I just wanted to say one thing. If people are going to use phrases like ” Stay at home mothers are working,” then they’re going to have to [...]