To End Unequal Pay for Black Women, We Must Confront Racism, Sexism, and the Maternal Wage Gap
At A Better Balance, we are fighting for a more just economy and to end the discrimination that contributes to the stark wage gap for Black women.
Sandberg’s Option B Calls for More Options for Working Families
Sheryl Sandberg’s new book, Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resistance, and Finding Joy, repeatedly recognizes the difficulties facing low income women and women of color and calls for public policy to address those needs In particular, she calls for many of the policy goals we fight for at A Better Balance, including: closing the wage gap, recognizing and protecting the diversity of American families, paid family and medical leave and paid sick time.
ABB Testifies in Support of Legislation to Advance Gender and Racial Equality in New York City
Our testimony focused on proposed legislation that would impose requirements on city agencies to address gender and racial disparities within the municipal workforce.
Tomorrow is Equal Pay Day – Help us Close the Gender Wage Gap!
Nationally, the wage gap remains perniciously greater for women of color. Black women earn just 63 cents for every dollar a white man earns and Latina women earn just 54 cents for every dollar paid to a white man.
Justice in Jeopardy: Jeff Sessions Is Unfit to Serve as Attorney General
Today, the Senate is expected to vote on Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions’ nomination to serve as Attorney General of the United States. Senator Sessions is wholly unfit for this position.…
FEDERAL WATCH: Gorsuch Nomination Raises Alarms on Civil Rights, Women’s Rights
Last night President Trump nominated Judge Neil M. Gorsuch, a Denver-based federal appeals court judge, to fill the vacant seat on the U.S. Supreme Court left open last year by…