- 1. Female Truck Drivers Are Finding Community and Celebrity On TikTok, And Sharing Their Stories Of What It's Like Being A Woman On The Road ...
- (Feminism)
- ... #girltruckdriver #truckdriver #insparation ♬ insta ssgkobe - 𝑽𝒂𝒎𝒑™ While the percentage of women in trucking is growing (according to the Department of Labor, 7.8 percent of the workforce is female), ...
- Created on 07 June 2022
- 2. "You Are Worthy," Senator Cory Booker's Emotional Speech Defending Ketanji Brown Jackson Reminds Us How Significant This Historic Moment Is For Black Women (And Has Us Reaching For The Tissue Bo
- (Feminism)
- ... being, like Ginger Rogers said, ‘I did everything Fred Astaire did but backwards in heels.'” Senator Booker’s comments are a reminder that Black women often face double standards in the workforce—they ...
- Created on 25 March 2022
- 3. K. Michelle's New Series "My Killer Body With K. Michelle" Explores The Darker Side of Plastic Surge
- (TV)
- ... you look better, you’re paid better. This isn’t true for just models and actors, but on social media and in the traditional workforce. With so much riding on looks it’s no wonder women are willing to die ...
- Created on 18 February 2022
- 4. The recent Taliban takeover is terrifying for Afghan women and girls—here's wh
- (Feminism)
- ... Workforce While women were banned from working outside the home under the Taliban, women have since become active participants in the public life they were once banned entry from entirely. Afghanistan ...
- Created on 18 August 2021
- 5. Greta Thunberg, Rihanna, Disha Ravi and Nodeep Kaur: The Indian Farming Protests and The Women Speaking Out
- (Feminism)
- ... for Indian farmers. Farmers, who make up over half of the country’s workforce, have been protesting in Delhi for months in response to controversial agricultural laws that affect the sale of crops, as ...
- Created on 17 February 2021
- 6. Death and the Maidens: How Previous Pandemics Helped Make the World a Better Place for Women
- (Feminism)
- ... that had previously been closed, allowing them to enter the workforce and explore opportunities that otherwise wouldn’t have existed. Both outbreaks also gave women new leverage to advocate for their rights. ...
- Created on 29 September 2020
- 7. Study Shows That COVID-19 Disproportionately Affects The Lives Of Mothers
- (Feminism)
- ... mean sacrificing paid work hours to do so.” If we don’t heed this advice, the results could be a drastically changed workforce and regressive, gendered expectations for divisions of household labor. ...
- Created on 23 September 2020
- 8. Child Care Providers in California Vote to Form Union
- (Feminism)
- ... third of the workforce, reports the HuffPost. Providers have been fighting for the right to unionize for almost two decades. This came to fruition first when Governor Gavin Newsome signed a law that ...
- Created on 28 July 2020
- 9. “She-Ra” Creator Noelle Stevenson Talks Flawed Heroines And Women In Animation: BUST Interview
- (TV)
- ... and showrunners who can bring important stories to life. Currently, women only represent 20% of the workforce in animation. Stevenson says she would like to see that change. “I’d love to see more and ...
- Created on 16 July 2020
- 10. Aisha Dee Of “The Bold Type” Talks The Power of Female Friendships And Her New EP: BUST Interview
- (Entertainment)
- ... for its depiction of issues that millennial women face in the workforce. Do you find that The Bold Type's portrayal is accurate to your own experiences as a millennial woman? Is there anything that you ...
- Created on 13 July 2020
- 11. How Fashion Nova and Other Fast Fashion Companies Are Profiting Off Of The Pandemic
- (Style)
- ... conducted against the company in 2016 that found their Los Angeles-based workforce was paid as little as $2.77 an hour. The investigation found that many workers at Fashion Nova's factories were paid as ...
- Created on 22 April 2020
- 12. As Unemployment Rates Rise, Women Are Hit The Hardest
- (Feminism)
- ... unemployment. This means that approximately 10 percent of the entire U.S. workforce is now indefinitely unemployed. Of the first 700,000 jobs that were lost in the months of February and March here in ...
- Created on 10 April 2020
- 13. Miss England 2019 Returns To Practicing Medicine During Pandemic
- (Living)
- ... 24, 2020 at 7:41am PDT Mukherjee is self-isolating for two weeks before jumping back into the workforce, ensuring that she hasn’t contracting the disease and will be in good shape to lend ...
- Created on 09 April 2020
- 14. Victory For #KuToo: Japan Airlines Says Goodbye To Mandatory High Heels and Skirts For Flight Attendants
- (Feminism)
- ... has been on a mission to achieve gender equality in the workforce since last year. Started by Japanese actress and writer Yumi Ishikawa, the title plays on the #MeToo movement, and combines the Japanese ...
- Created on 27 March 2020
- 15. Inspiration Behind "Rosie The Riveter" Dies at 95, Here Are 5 Fast Facts about the Feminist Ico
- (Feminism)
- ... philanthropist, here are some fast facts about the iconic symbol of Rosie the Riveter and women in the workforce: Long seen as a symbol of feminism and gender equality, the press used many “Rosies” ...
- Created on 09 March 2020
- 16. “For Neither Love Nor Money”: Artist Sawyer Rose Shines A Light On Women’s Invisible Labor
- (Arts)
- While women in the U.S. workforce are struggling to break the glass ceiling, they’re also fighting to stop “scrubbing the glass floor” at home. American women are doing almost twice as much cooking, ...
- Created on 06 December 2019
- 17. The Four Black NASA Women Who Inspired “Hidden Figures” Are Getting Congressional Gold Medals
- (Feminism)
- ... agency’s latest workforce data, 72 percent of its nearly 17,000 employees are White, 12 percent are Black or African American, 7 percent are Asian American or Pacific Islander, and 8 percent are Hispanic ...
- Created on 13 November 2019
- 18. Feminism Includes Disability Advocacy: What to Mark on Your Calendar This Fall
- (Feminism)
- ... They simply struggle to master the material the same way other classmates do. While schools legally need to provide accommodations for students with learning disabilities, adults in the workforce struggle ...
- Created on 03 October 2019
- 19. "Britt-Marie Was Here" Asks, "How Do You Live A Life
- (Movies)
- ... up the house and start cleaning up her life. After four decades outside the workforce, Britt-Marie accepts a position coaching youth soccer in a tiny town called Borg, and it’s there that she discovers ...
- Created on 20 September 2019
- 20. 10 Women Sue Disney Over Systematic Gender Discrimination in Class Action Lawsuit
- (Feminism)
- ... gender equity, all women in the workforce will be better off.” The third person, Dawn Wisner-Johnson, worked for Disney’s ABC Television music branch until 2017 and, according to the suit, “was classified ...
- Created on 20 September 2019
