At YWCA Metropolitan Chicago, we are working actively to embody Land and Labor Acknowledgment practices. This entails not only crafting a written statement, but also identifying clear objectives and calls to action for our work internally and in communities across the Metropolitan Chicago region.   You may be wondering, what is a land and labor acknowledgment? …

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On Native Women’s Equal Pay Day, we would like to highlight Institute for Women’s Policy Research Fact Sheet entitled “A Decade Without Improvement: Native Women and the Wage Gap” which states the following: Native American women must work 20 months to make the same amount White men make in 12 months  The gender wage gap …

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