National Organization for Women
From The Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/21/ron-desantis-florida-atlantic-university-randy-fine
’“Another GOP politician with no real qualifications for a job like this being appointed to lead a college. Higher education institutions shouldn’t serve as job placement plans for political cronies. The grift is real,” Thomas Kennedy, a Florida member of the Democratic National Committee tweeted.‘
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Statement by NOW President Christian F. Nunes
WASHINGTON, D.C. – A quarter, a nickel, and three pennies is the typical difference between the amount that Black women are paid for a full-time job versus their white, non-Hispanic male counterparts. And while that 33-cent difference may seem trivial, it costs Black women $1,891 per month, $22,692 per year, and more than $900,000 over a 40-year career. Today, we recognize Black Women’s Equal Pay Day and the need to balance the scales between what we receive and what we are worth.
Our country’s unsettling relationship with gender and racial wage gaps is inseparable from the labor history of America, beginning with the exploitation of Black women during slavery. This sophisticated theft created lasting disparities in various areas beyond the wage gap. NOW, committed to intersectional feminism, acknowledges how instrumental women of color were in fueling our nation’s economic growth. While we cannot reverse the lasting imprints left on several generations of minority Americans in the past, we are fighting for the present and the future to dismantle the systems that obstruct equal opportunity.
For this year’s Black Women’s Equal Pay Day, we urge federal lawmakers to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act, which will modernize and strengthen the Equal Pay Act of 1963 to better combat pay discrimination and truly close the wage gap. Let us all work together to implore Congress to strengthen the law and provide new tools to ensure women – especially women of color – are paid what they deserve.
Contact: Press Team, press@now.org,
From the NYTimes, July 13, 2023:
Democrats Try a Novel Tactic to Revive the Equal Rights Amendment
”Democrats in Congress are making a fresh push for the nearly century-old Equal Rights Amendment to be enshrined in the Constitution, rallying around a creative legal theory in a bid to revive an amendment that would explicitly guarantee sex equality as a way to protect reproductive rights in post-Roe America.
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York and Representative Cori Bush of Missouri introduced a joint resolution on Thursday stating that the measure has already been ratified and is enforceable as the 28th Amendment to the Constitution. The resolution states that the national archivist, who is responsible for the certification and publication of constitutional amendments, must immediately do so.”
Rabbi Barry Silver earned the Feminist of the Year from PBC NOW in 2022 and we are grateful he serves as PBC NOW advisor. He has strengthened connection between jewish scripture and abortion rights for decades.
Read the recent article from Repro Rights NOW on Substack.com: Florida Rabbi a champion of reproductive freedom
“Rabbi Barry Silver has been a mainstay in Florida’s abortion rights movement for decades. He and his congregation filed a lawsuit against the state’s 15-week abortion ban last year.
His advocacy is driven by two things–a concern for women’s rights and a desire to separate church and state in political decision-making.”
Read more about Rabbi Silver on our Board Members page: https://pbcnow.org/board-members/
Read the whole article From Ms. Magazine, Summer 2023: Banned: Women’s Studies
“‘The sweeping directive,…yielded a grab bag of hundreds of student organizations, mentorship programs, community outreach initiatives, offices dedicated to federal compliance and a seemingly random assortment of classes.
‘Why go to college if you aren’t learning from scholars who are actively researching, who are producing knowledge and who you can be in dialogue with about their knowledge production?’ asks Nicole Morse, director of the Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and an assistant professor of media studies at Florida Atlantic University. ‘That’s the whole point of higher ed.’”