#equal pay

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[palatinewolfsblog]

"Labor is like motherhood to most of our political leaders: a calling so fine and noble that it would be sullied by talk of vulgar, mundane things like pay."

Barbara Ehrenreich. Happy Mother's day, y'all!

[whenweallvote]

When we all vote, we create the future all women deserve. Make sure you are registered to vote right now at WeAll.Vote/register — because this November, our votes will decide key issues impacting US.

Get ready to paint the polls pink this November! 💗

[afusionoffandoms]

Thinking about how being fat means you're denied a very large portion of what's considered a normal (and healthy) part of the human experience.

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Jane Fonda on National Secretaries Day, 1980.

[leveloneandup]

re—inc The beautiful thing about the beautiful game is that oftentimes, soccer is about more than soccer. It’s a microcosm of the larger society, showcasing its triumphs and tribulations, its victories and its inequities. It brings to light battles typically left in the dark.

The spotlight on equal pay and financial liberation will not extinguish today or this month; the spotlight will remain forever illuminated — shining a light on the necessary steps we must take and the conversations we must have to continue down the path toward progress.

Together we can close the gap and #MoveTowardsEqual

[didalexiabreakupwitholgaisback]

I saw some people saying that the Vietnam Football Federation should learn from RFEF about investing in women's football and not being gender-biased. VFF has its own problems, but RFEF is on a completely different level of bad.

Jorge Vilda went into the players' rooms while they were sleeping and asked to talk at night. Mai Duc Chung said that his principle is that if he has something to say, he will meet the players on the field, in a public place, where everyone can see, never meet the players in the room. The Vietnamese players have a great coach who loves them, respects them, takes care of them. Spanish players have never had a coach like that. I wish they have a really good coach, but I don't have much hope for the RFEF 😅

I'm not writing this to praise my country's football as the best. Obviously we have a big gap in level compared to many other teams. But not everything in Europe is perfect, they have their own serious problems

thanks for sharing information about the vietnam women's team. i am not as familiar with that program. 🙏

and every federation, no matter how big or small, has its problems. but at the minimum we should not tolerate an environment in any federation where the coach abuses the players. zero tolerance. and just because a team has won a tournament doesn't automatically mean you should emulate that program in every aspect. aside from rfef, let's not forget that jill ellis won two world cups and she seems to be an absolutely horrible person.

and it's a good thing that vietnam has a good coach who respects the players and treats them fairly. that's hopefully makes for a good foundation and they can grow from there.

so one thing that rfef did that i have not seen reports that us soccer did was employ a strategy of divide and conquer. there was a lot more player unity at first, especially after the euros. but the federation completely tore it apart. it's one thing to have players with different backgrounds and ideas (lloyd vs. rapinoe) but it's another situation where the federation is exploiting that divide and causing players to second guess their decisions. that's what happened that led to 'las 15.'

and the other major difference is that in spain, we have the sports law that requires players to attend a call-up otherwise they risk losing their license to play football at all. usa does not have any such law and so, there isn't that risk of exploitation of younger players as replacements that spain dealt with.

so a super corrupt and divisive federation that blocked all unity efforts and a draconian law. plus, the uswnt were able to successfully use us labour laws to mount a legal challenge based on discrimination and violation of federal law. unfortunately, we do not have the same set of facts or laws to take advantage of in spain's situation.

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Drive, executive ability, and a single-mindedness of purpose became enduring characteristics of Susan Anthony. She was impatient with whatever did not contribute directly to the battles she waged in her various campaigns for reform. She began as a teacher at the age of seventeen, and for many years she was a critical observer and then vigorous participant at teachers'-association conventions.

An early example of her courage and ability to press to the main point of an argument can be seen in her role at the 1853 state convention of schoolteachers. At this time women teachers could attend but could not speak at the convention meetings. Susan listened to a long discussion on why the profession of teaching was not as respected as those of law, medicine, and the ministry. When she could stand it no longer, she rose from her seat and called out, "Mr. President!" After much consternation about recognizing her, she was asked what she wished. When informed that she wished to speak to the question under discussion, a half-hour's debate and a close vote resulted in permission. Then she said:

“It seems to me, gentlemen, that none of you quite comprehend the cause of the disrespect of which you complain. Do you not see that so long as society says a woman is incompetent to be a lawyer, minister or doctor, but has ample ability to be a teacher, that every man of you who chooses this profession tacitly acknowledges that he has no more brains than a woman? And this, too, is the reason that teaching is a less lucrative profession, as here men must compete with the cheap labor of woman. Would you exalt your profession, exalt those who labor with you. Would you make it more lucrative, increase the salaries of the women engaged in the noble work of educating our future Presidents, Senators and Congressmen.”

Susan's point on the wage scale of occupations in which many women are employed is as pertinent in the 1970s as it was in the 1850s. Equal pay for equal work continues to be seen as applying to equal pay for men and women in the same occupation, while the larger point of continuing relevance in our day is that some occupations have depressed wages because women are the chief employees. The former is a pattern of sex discrimination, the latter of institutionalized sexism.

-Alice S. Rossi, The Feminist Papers: From Adams to de Beauvoir

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the pain and tiredness in their eyes :(

[they-them-van]

Now that the tournament is wrapped up I'll first say that even with all the bullshit that came along with it, I still feel so privileged to be able to watch the growth of women's sports in real time like this. There was so much Black joy, so much colonized joy, so much queer joy, and I hope nobody loses sight of how radical the wwc and woso are at the roots. The players are succeeding with quite literally every odd stacked against them in some cases, and i desperately hope that with a spotlight shined on some of the inequalities we've seen, it might get better.

Having said that, I hate that Spain won. It's nothing against the players and everything against Vilda; I ache for the players who watched the final knowing that with a win, with the federation backing Vilda, their careers might be over. I'm still kind of in disbelief that after this incredible tournament, this is somehow where we ended up. And I hope that if you're feeling similar to me, that feeling will serve as a reminder that we are not done yet. Growth isn't good enough if it comes at the cost of players' well-being.

[whenweallvote]

Today is Equal Pay Day. On average, a woman in the U.S. has to work until today — March 12th — to earn what a man was paid in the year prior. 🪙🙅🏽‍♀️💵

This #EqualPayDay, join us in bringing awareness to the gender wage gap, which is even wider for women of color. 

The politicians WE elect can implement reforms that address pay inequality across industries. Make sure you’re registered to vote NOW at weall.vote/register.

[lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers]

It is possible, due to brexit, that we may lose equal pay (among other rights) in 2024. It’s very important we don’t allow Tories to sweep these things under the carpet or ignore them.

It’s very possible in the next year we could lose a lot of the worker’s rights we gained under New Labour, also- many of these are incredibly important in terms of worker’s safety and in terms of equality.

Capitalism is shit enough without letting them take the limited protections we have available.

[leveloneandup]

Tobin Heath | Inspiration Summit 2023

What would you say to the individuals who look at you and say, 'I'm so inspired by what you've done. How can I take a piece of that back in my own life?'

I think this summit is one of the great examples of it. I was fortunate enough that I played for a team. So what happened was… through the process of… You know, you put eleven women on the field and those eleven women have to go out and figure out a way to win a football match. There was no man on the field to say like, 'Oh, let me do it for you.' We did it ourselves, and I think that’s powerful.

I believe in the power of community. I believe in the power that you don't have to fight battles alone. I think, like I said in that moment when everybody was chanting 'Equal Pay!' the act of gathering was so powerful. That stadium chanting that was so powerful.

And I think we've all had shared experiences to the point of being paid unequal, we have that shared experience. And I think that if we try to look at our individual battle as an individual battle and not as a collective battle, I think we fail. I think if we look at it collectively, I think we really have a chance of succeeding.

I was speaking to another athlete in another sport recently and I was kind of like, 'Hey, what's going in your sport? How can I help?' And it was interesting because in all these women's sports pockets— because I believe women's sports currently is fragmented. It's not accessible. I mean, if you try to go watch it, it's like everywhere and nowhere at the same time, which is really frustrating for fans. I think you lose a massive audience because of that. So part of this was like, I said, 'Hey, like what's going on?' And she started telling me about the battles she was going through and I was like, 'Man, that sounds like something we did five years ago, that we went through five years ago' and I was frustrated in that moment because by keeping us fragmented and keeping our battles small and to each industry and to each person's situation, it really diminishes the power that we have as a collective.

And I think moments like this, when you can realize that every single women in every single field has a shared experience— it might look different, it might feel different, but we all have a shared experience and that our voices coming together are really, really powerful. That's when we start this conversation from another perspective.

And I remember in our pay equity lawsuit, there was one critical moment where... For so long we had gone into these rooms that it seemed like they would be smarter than us, right? They seemed like the people... They were talking all this bullshit, trying to make it so that we couldn’t understand what they were saying, yada yada yada '...the economics...'

And honestly, through this process, we were just like, 'Okay, we're sick of going into these rooms to be told that we have no value. We believe in our value. We see our value every single day. We're just… We’re done with this room.' And in one moment, a collective group of us, instead of just continuing to hear that and continuing to accept it, in one moment, that collective group, we stood out, and we walked out of the room.

And that act was so powerful. And it's one that... For the people that were in the room, it will sit with me for the rest of my life, because it was the first time we stood up together as a collective and we said, 'No. We're done with this.' And that started a massive, massive moment of a power shift.

[100percentdirtball]

just bought a hand tray (off your site, not etsy) for my friend!! Thank you for making such cool things <3

thank you so much! i'm sure they're gonna love it (:

i honestly love our hand trays so much, i have at least one of every color in my house. i use 'em for keys, jewelry, heck i hung one on the wall for necklaces.

i'm partial to the strawberry lemonade, but

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