A newsletter in my in-box Monday! Interesting thoughts come through the women and men pushing for North Carolina to ratify the ERA.
Gender Wages: Same old gap, same old crap.
"It’s Labor Day 2023: do you know where your equity is? Things today are not far from where they stood 20 years ago. One hopeful change: younger female workers’ pay is creeping closer to younger men’s. On the downside, older women are still at a gross disadvantage, particularly older Black and Hispanic women.
Try living on $30,000 a year, especially if you’re a single mom. Two out of three full-time workers with jobs that pay less than $30,000 a year are female!
We know that women’s work is largely undervalued. Some experts say the real gap lies in the ‘choices’ women make. Let’s see ... should I take a part-time job so I’m home when kids get out of school? Or pay a childcare person who may make more than I do? One tough choice after another is what moms are forced to make. The problem is societal, not just corporate.
Source: U S. Department of Labor
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If Nevada can do it, we can too.
"On the eve of the 100th anniversary of the ERA, Nevada voters did something even more historic than authoring the Equal Rights Amendment.
One ‘yes’ at a time, they amended their state constitution to guarantee equal rights for all,
regardless of race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation or expression, age, disability, ancestry or national origin.
The amendment was on the ballot and the people decided. They voted for what was fair, for justice for their families, their neighbors, themselves.
North Carolinians can do the same. Join the ERA-NC Alliance and let’s make it happen."
Thanks ERA NC Alliance!
...it's so discouraging.
ReplyDeleteAnd yet so many women seem enthralled by tRump and those who would keep women subsurvient to men (see last picture)
Deletesubservient that is..
DeleteIt is a shame we are still having to fight for equal rights. Take care, have a great day!
ReplyDeleteI can't believe it either. So many women. So frustrating that we women haven't been able to do what we need!
DeleteNewspapers.com just posted this: September 19, 1893: New Zealand Becomes The First Nation to Give Women the Right to Vote
ReplyDeleteIn the late 1800s, women around the globe began organizing and advocating for the right to vote. On September 19, 1893, 130 years ago, New Zealand passed the Electoral Act and became the first self-governing country in the world to allow women the right to vote in parliamentary elections. It would take another 27 years for the United States to follow suit. The victory came after a hard-fought fight led by Kate Sheppard, a leading activist for the women’s suffrage movement in New Zealand.
I have hope that things will improve. For our granddaughters.
ReplyDeleteI do too. Hope.
DeleteThat last photo reminds me of how I lost one blogger friend. She thought it was nice to see a Muslim couple, he in western apparel and she veiled (at least partly). I posted something like the picture, that I would be impressed if he were in traditional clothes and she in western garb. I never hear form her again.
ReplyDeleteI post light humor at Christians, so figure if Muslims don't get a laugh every now and then, they might feel left out.
DeleteNevada surprises me.
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