2023’s theme for Black History Month is “Black Resistance.” This February, we’re called to learn more about how Black people in America have for centuries resisted oppression in its systemic, institutional, interpersonal, and intrapersonal forms. This ongoing struggle to right inequities needs to be centered not just every February, but each and every day. The …
Peter Keegan / Keystone / Getty Images file January 22, 2023 would have been the 50th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade. But this year, instead of reflecting on progress, many are reflecting on tremendous setbacks to reproductive rights in the United States. By overturning Roe v. Wade via the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization …
Latina Equal Pay Day raises awareness of the inequality in wage earnings for Latina women. According to Equal Rights Advocates, “part-time Latina workers earn only 54 cents for every dollar earned by white, non-Hispanic men. Those who work full time year-round only earn 57 cents to the dollar.” This means Latina women must work an …
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? …
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 …