Child Care Scarcity Has Very Real Consequences For Working Families
Until the government takes on child care as a public good, there are fortunately employer-funded models that seem to be working.
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Back to homeThe urgency of intersectionality: Kimberlé Crenshaw speaks at TEDWomen 2016
“When there’s no name for a problem, you can’t see a problem. When you can’t see a problem, you can’t solve it.”
U.S. Parents Are Sweating And Hustling To Pay For Child Care
Ask just about any parent — regardless of where in the U.S. they live, socioeconomic status or race — and they’re likely to have strong opinions and a story to tell of juggling priorities, cutting costs and employing creative strategies …
It’s Now More Expensive To Send Your Kid To Daycare Than College
Is it any wonder so many women decide not to go back to work? It’s simply not worth the bother to work when that much of a household’s income is going to daycare.
Pinksourcing: Pretty, Cheap Labor
Companies, hire women.
Poverty is Sexist – and the Prime Minister Gets It
“Women and girls are less likely to get an education, more likely to be impoverished, and face greater risk of disease and poor health.”
This Adorable Cartoon Explains Privilege In The Most Nonconfrontational Possible Way
Privilege can be uncomfortable to explain or learn about, but this cartoon addresses it in a cute and creative way.
80 percent of LGBT People Killed are Minorities
When violence strikes the LGBT community, the victims often look like those who died in the Orlando tragedy.
#SayHerName: Why Kimberlé Crenshaw is Fighting for Forgotten Women
More than 70 black women have died at the hands of the police in the past three years. Professor and activist Crenshaw, who coined the term ‘intersectionality’ in the 1980s, is determined they will be remembered.
This Is Why Poor People Can (And Should) Have Nice Things
“Despite the fact that we live in a country burdened by poverty and social immobility, we also live in a country riddled with false narratives about what poverty looks like and doesn’t look like, or what kind of poverty is …