How the Rise of Women in Labor Could Save the Movement
"While birthing roc i have birthed two children saru jayaraman co founder and co director of the restaurant worker organizing group roc united told me over the phone she was talking over the yells and...
View ArticleWhat President Obama Could Do Right Now to Address the Work/Family Dilemma
"Plenty of worthy policy changes that would help working people balance the demands of the workplace with home have been proposed in congress universal preschool paid family leave paid sick days but...
View ArticleThe Government Is a Terrible Marriage Matchmaker
"First it was senator marco rubio marriage is ldquo the greatest tool rdquo to lift people out of poverty then it was ari fleischer the best way to fight income inequality is by ldquo helping the poor...
View ArticleWant to See Pay Discrimination Against Women? Look at the Top.
"The car industry is no bastion of female empowerment so it was groundbreaking to see general motors appoint mary barra as ceo in december she is the first woman not just to run the company but to run...
View ArticleMen of the World, Lean Out!
"In an essay for foreign policy rosa brooks writes that she hates sheryl sandberg not because she has nice hair or is wealthy but because she has urged women to lean in to their work brooks describes...
View ArticleWhy Americans Should Take August Off
"By now you have definitely seen it the cadillac ad for its first hybrid car that has a hard on for america s work ethic other countries actor neal mcdonough says while strutting through his perfectly...
View ArticleWhy Women Rightly Fear Failure
"I was a bright and precocious child or a nerd or a teacher s pet depending on whom you asked i loved reading more than tv i took science classes as an after school activity for fun things at school...
View ArticleOn Racism and Sexism, Don’t Let Progress Be the Enemy of More Progress
"If you read blogs then you have almost certainly seen the back and forth between two sharp writers ta nehisi coates at the atlantic and jonathan chait at new york magazine their conversation began in...
View ArticleWhy We Can’t Strip Race Out of the Gender Wage Gap Conversation
"April 8 was equal pay day the day by which women will have theoretically worked enough to catch up to what men made the year before in honor of that the senate voted on the paycheck fairness act a...
View ArticleWhy It Matters That Women Do Most of the Housework
"Today s women spend more time in paid employment but still come home to the second shift on the typical day nearly half of them will do housework but just 20 percent of men will do the same and women...
View ArticleMothers’ Thankless Work Building an Economy for the Rest of Us
"There s a video that recently made its way around the internet in it supposedly unsuspecting people join a video call to interview for a job as director of operations then the person doing the...
View ArticleIn the Real World, the So-Called ‘Boy Crisis’ Disappears
"The realization came to me later than it should have getting a job is not the same as applying to college after i graduated i assumed for a long time that the work world operated the same way as the...
View ArticleFor Women’s Office Wear, Who’s Making the Rules?
"It s summer and it s hot so women are now plunged into the murky waters of dressing appropriately for work while not wearing so much clothing they ll get heat stroke some like a reporter who was...
View ArticleWhat Happened When One Country Required All Corporate Boards to Be 40% Women
"Call it the sheryl sandberg theory of feminist progress help more women get into the tippy top of the company pyramid and change will spread to the bottom ranks you could also call it trickle down...
View ArticleWe’re Arresting Poor Mothers for Our Own Failures
"You ve probably heard the name shanesha taylor at this point she s the arizona mother who was arrested for leaving her children in the car while she went to a job interview her story went viral thanks...
View ArticleThe Real Solution to Wealth Inequality
"With this issue we rsquo re inaugurating ldquo the score rdquo a monthly feature about the economy by bryce covert and mike konczal the wealth controlled by the top tenth of the top 1 percent has more...
View ArticleWhy Is It So Controversial to Help Poor Mothers Afford Diapers?
"Imagine you re a single mother working a minimum wage job with a toddler at home you don t make enough to cover all of your family s necessities a minimum wage income isn t enough to even afford rent...
View ArticleThe Republican Playbook for Cutting Anti-Poverty Programs
"The cornerstone of paul ryan rsquo s recently released poverty proposal is his ldquo opportunity grant rdquo which transforms participating states rsquo anti poverty programs into block grants...
View ArticleTo Leave Their Abusers, Domestic Violence Survivors Need Economic Security
"Saturday marks twenty years since the violence against women act was signed into law the country has made real progress toward reducing domestic violence thanks in many ways to vawa domestic violence...
View ArticleYes, Tipping Sucks. But You Still Have to Do It.
"Last week marriott launched a campaign to encourage its guests to tip the housekeepers who clean their rooms every day tipping hotel cleaners is considered good practice even if many people don t know...
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