Moms want a tax code, budget and set of fiscal policies that allow their families, communities, businesses and economy to thrive. Candidates running down the ballot in 2020 should take note—and remember that we all do better when moms and women do better.
Category: Money & Jobs
I Faced Down Workplace Discrimination—at a Top-Level Labor Law Firm
I investigated and handled claims of workplace discrimination and harassment every day during my 12 years as an employment attorney—and I was experiencing precisely such discrimination and harassment from my own employer.
Spoiler Alert: We (Still) Need More Women Working in Film
A study published this month indicates substantial progress for women’s inclusion in independent films over the past year. But gender discrepancies are amplified in the realm of more mainstream science fiction and superhero films.
Elizabeth Warren Joins Growing #MeToo Boycott of Terranea Resort
Senator Elizabeth Warren announced today that she would be adding her name to the growing list of elected officials, celebrities and activists leading the #CancelTerranea movement, a national boycott of the Terranea Resort in Rancho Palos Verdes, California.
75 Years Later, Women are Finally Half the Sky at Bretton Woods
Seventy-five years ago, Franklin Delano Roosevelt gathered monetary thinkers of the Allied forces—all-male, of course—to a secret meeting in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. When Silicon Valley’s Galia Benartzi organized a Global Economic Visioning Summit to mark the anniversary, she made sure half its speakers were women.
We Are Unstoppable: How Female Philanthropists are Turning Giving Circles into a Movement
Giving circles bring people together to practice collective philanthropy. In the same spirit, representatives of giving circles and giving circle networks across the U.S. are now convening to build power.
Standing Guard to Stop Trafficking: Inside the Asservo Project
Asservo, derived from the Latin verb meaning “watch over or guard,” is an apt name for the project, which seeks to combat human trafficking and sexual predators, support the recovery of victims and aid in the imprisonment of perpetrators.
The U.S. Needs a Feminist Federal Budget
“The government does not set out to discriminate. Rather, it overlooks its own bias because it does not take the trouble to assess how policies affect women. Government budgets are supposed to be ‘gender-neutral;’ in fact, they are gender-ignorant.”
Paradise Lost
“Article ignores the great strides we’ve made.” That was the headline in the Saipan Tribune in response to the Ms. cover story on abusive garment sweatshops, forced abortions and sex trafficking in the Northern Mariana Islands. After the publication of “Paradise Lost,” Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.) reintroduced the United States-Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Human […]
The Sexual Harassment Strikes Against McDonald’s Were Only the Beginning
In a brave stand against workplace sexual misconduct, a group of McDonald’s workers filed 25 sexual harassment charges and lawsuits against the fast food giant at the end of May—adding up to more than 50 suits and complaints that workers have filed alongside Fight for $15, an international organization of low-wage workers, in the last three years.