
12/08/2022
It’s Latina Equal Pay Day — finally
It’s Latina Equal Pay Day — finally
The pay gap for Latinas persists across education levels and industries. Here’s why.
Connecting women with the resources they need to reach their full potential.
Operating as usual
It’s Latina Equal Pay Day — finally
The pay gap for Latinas persists across education levels and industries. Here’s why.
Tune-into the FREE Virtual Lunch & Learn event this Tuesday, December 13, at 11:30 AM: "Advancing Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion in the Workplace in 2023: Authenticity & Sustainability."
Speakers include Dr. Karen King, Erie County Commissioner of Public Advocacy & Executive Director of the Erie County Commission on the Status of Women.
Event details & registration:
December Theme: "Advancing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Workplace in 2023: Authenticity and Sustainability"
High school girls empowered to pursue political jobs through roundtable event
The event allowed the teenagers to ask questions about becoming involved in politics and civic engagement.
Photos from Karen Hoak, Hamburg Town Councilwoman's post
This Thursday, December 1st at 5 PM: Join us at the Frank E. Merriweather, Jr. Library for a roundtable discussion on diversity, equity, & inclusion. Hear from community members engaged in DEI initiatives. Discuss challenges & successes in creating impactful change. Participants will share experiences & how efforts have impacted our community.
See graphic for details. RSVP to Karen King: [email protected]
How, when and where to vote: A resource guide
Election Day is November 8, and rules on voting vary from state to state and even county to county. Here’s how to find what you need to know.
On the Banned-Book Bus With Kimberlé Crenshaw
During, a visit to America's book-banningest community, a scholar who helped develop critical race theory issued a warning for the country
Thursday, October 27, @ 5 PM: Join us at The Buffalo History Museum for a roundtable discussion on diversity, equity, & inclusion.
Hear from community members engaged in DEI initiatives. Discuss challenges & successes in creating impactful change. Participants will share experiences & how efforts have impacted our community. See video for more!
RSVP to Karen King: [email protected]
Perspective | Dangerous beauty
What does it mean to look our best? The person whose appearance is pleasant, familiar, likable is all the person who is valued.
Events | Health
Class topics include health consequences of to***co use, NYS Public Health Law, types of products, signage requirements, proof of age requirements, enforcement & penalties & advertising requirements
Thursday, October 27, @ 5 PM: Join us at The Buffalo History Museum for a roundtable discussion on diversity, equity, & inclusion. Hear from community members engaged in DEI initiatives. Discuss challenges & successes in creating impactful change. Participants will share experiences & how efforts have impacted our community. See graphic for details.
RSVP by October 25 to Karen King: [email protected]
The Burnout Crisis in Pink-Collar Work
Plus: A housing revolution is coming.
Thank you to all of our community volunteers, students, master gardeners and ECCSW Advisory Board members for making the Tribute Garden WNY 2022 Plant-a-Thon a great success!
Unpacking the term Hispancic
Hispanic and Latino have been used to describe people with roots in Spain or Latin America, but the terms blur multiple diasporas' experiences and identities.
As the EPA introduces environmental justice office, the ‘mother of the movement’ remembers the Black women who led the battle
The EPA announced a new environmental justice office. Dollie Burwell, who raised the profile of environmental racism 40 years ago, sees that as full circle.
“Women, Life, Freedom:" Stand with Women in Iran - GIWPS
Women are at the forefront of widespread protests in Iran, demanding human rights and freedom following the tragic death of 22-year-old Mahsa Zhina Amini who was violently beaten and arrested by Iranian morality police for wearing an “inappropriate” hijab that did not “properly” cover her ha...
Belittling of a climate expert shows how insults obscure the issues.
Women and nonbinary experts are often cast as irrational and even un-American.
The gender wage gap persists
Last year, Black Women's Equal Pay Day was marked on August 3. Here’s why it is on September 21 this year.
This Wednesday, September 21 is Black Women’s Equal Pay Day. Join us & Positive Steps NY for a special event 8:30 AM.
Register at: PositiveStepsNY.com
💃🏽🕺🏽🎶🍲 continues, with music, crafts, food, & fun all month long. See graphic for events & programming, or go to: hispanicheritagewny.org/events
Cc: Hispanic Heritage Council of Western New York Inc., EC200 - Erie County Bicentennial, WNED PBS
Moms’ Equal Pay Day is September 8. Moms are paid 58 cents for every dollar paid to dads.
Black Women’s Equal Pay Day is September 21. Black women are paid 58 cents for every dollar paid to white men.
Native Women’s Equal Pay Day is November 30. Native women are paid 50 cents for every dollar paid to white men.
Latina’s Equal Pay Day is December 8. Latinas are paid 49 cents for every dollar paid to white men.
There are more than one equal pay day to denote the day that women of color must work until before their wages catch up with men's.
Trailblazer!
A new statue honors Elizabeth Freeman, who argued against slavery in a Massachusetts legal case
1st Amendment 1st Vote’s program content aligns with NYS educational standards.
Themes include:
Foundations of American Democracy; Civil Rights and Civil Liberties; Rights, Responsibilities and Duties of Citizenship; Political and Civic Participation; and, Public Policy. Bringing history to life also allows students context regarding policy and governance.
Discovering the forgotten women of silent cinema
An exhibition of theater lobby cards at New York's Poster House celebrates women's contributions to silent movies both in front and behind the camera.
Trailblazers!
Thirty years ago, photographer Brian Lanker made indelible images of historical lives; a new exhibition says their stories have never seemed more relevant
Intersectional Feminism
We recently came across the panel comic “ A Timeline of Girl Boss Culture ” on Instagram by feminist cartoonist Lily O’Farrell ( ). The cartoon struck us because it critiques the brand of feminism that preaches equality but is neither inclusive nor intersectional, as it ass
Stop Protecting “Good Guys”
Rates of sexual harassment in medicine outpace all other science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM) fields. When women speak up about sexism or sexual harassment in these workplaces, they’re often met with the “good guy” defense: “He didn’t mean anything by it. He....
Period Equity!
The school district joins a national movement to provide equal access to period supplies.
On this day in 1848, the Seneca Falls Convention began, widely considered to be the start of the women's rights movement in the United States. Held over two days at a church near Elizabeth Cady Stanton's home in Seneca Falls, NY, the event was organized by Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Jane C. Hunt, Martha Coffin Wright, and Mary Ann M'Clintock.
The convention is noted for the "Declaration of Sentiments," brilliantly modeled on the Declaration of Independence, and viewed as the movement's foundational and most influential document. In addition to some 200 women, about 40 men attended, including the famous African American abolitionist Frederick Douglass.
Learn more about the convention: nps.gov/wori/index.htm
More about the Erie County Commission on the Status of Women at: erie.gov/csw
🎉 A big welcome to our summer interns! Senior Kate Richter & Junior Tulesi Suresh—both from Williamsville East High School—will be getting some hands-on experience with county government, public policy, and women's issues.
We're so glad to have you!
Learn more about ECCSW at: erie.gov/csw
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Hello! I am Kate Richter, a rising senior at Williamsville East High School.
I am excited to be interning at the Erie County Commission on the Status of Women because I am gaining experience for a potential career path. I am learning how policies work within county government. This summer, we are looking at how social media impacts women and girls. This is a passion of mine because social media has such a huge impact on all of our lives. We will be creating a survey and conducting focus groups with high school girls in WNY. The survey and focus group data we collect will be used to create a policy report which is very exciting! Since women's rights have always been a huge interest for me and this internship caters to that. I am excited for the rest of my time in the Public Advocacy office!
My personal interests include sports: I play defense for the Amherst Knights hockey association and have great passion for the Buffalo Bills!
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Hi everyone! I’m Tulesi Suresh, a rising junior at Williamsville East High School. I’m excited to be interning at ECCSW this summer! I am interested in learning more about public policy and how county government works, especially to try and see if it is what I would like to pursue in the future. The research process and collecting data through surveys and focus groups are skills I am excited to learn about in my time here. This summer, we are gathering information and discussing how social media affects different age groups of women, which is important to me because social media shapes many issues that I care about and affect our lives. Preparing to present our research for 1st Amendment 1st Vote in the fall is also important to me because it gives opportunities and knowledge to girls about how to engage in our community and government. I’m so thankful to learn more about women’s rights and public advocacy in my time here!
My personal interests include music, whether it is in the form of listening to music, singing, playing the piano, or going to concerts and jazz shows with my friends and family. I also love sports—I play tennis and am a huge Bills fan.
Coverture: The Word You Probably Don't Know But Should
Coverture: The Word You Probably Don't Know But Should September 4, 2012 My mother-in-law loves this story. A few years ago, my husband, Andrew, and I went to apply for a mortgage. As a candidate for a house mortgage—and this is the part my mother-in-law loves—I characterize myself as “greater...
The Supreme Court has unleashed chaos, uncertainty and untold harms by overturning Roe v. Wade. Here’s where every US state stands of as June 27 👇
Note: This graphic does not reflect some of the latest policy changes we're tracking, including in Utah and South Carolina. Visit our map for the latest info: https://states.guttmacher.org/policies/
With Roe v. Wade toppled, we do not have the same rights in all labor markets. In a global market, an empowered worker is one who can migrate. With Dobbs, women cannot assume that we can safely work in Idaho the same way that we can in Oregon or Washington. I cannot negotiate wages or time off with an employer with the same risk profile as those who cannot become pregnant. An employer who offers lower pay in a state with abortion care indirectly benefits from women’s inability to take our labor on the open market across the nation. Thanks to a rogue court, women’s lives are now more determined by the accidents of our birth than they were a week ago - Tressie McMillan Cottom
Women pay a greater price for freedom than do men.
Roe v. Wade has been overturned. In these states, abortion access will no longer be accessible.
Thirteen states have trigger laws that would immediately, or almost immediately, ban abortion now that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade.
Photos from Erie County, NY's post
Organizing and adding members are top goals for the newly elected AFL-CIO president
Elizabeth Shuler, the first woman ever elected president of the labor federation, is pledging a massive organizing drive over the next decade, with a goal of adding 1 million new union members.
After the Emancipation Proclamation, some slave owners kept the news from their slaves. In a 1941 recording, a former slave recalls June 19, 1865, when slaves in Texas were told they were free.
"Voices from the Days of Slavery" is an online exhibition at the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress. This story was brought to us by Hearing-Voices producer Barrett Golding.
After the Emancipation Proclamation, some slave owners kept the news from their slaves. In a 1941 recording, a former slave recalls June 19, 1865, when slaves in Texas were told they were free.
Today is Day: Did you know that women in same-gender relationships often face a double pay gap?
Students are mobilizing against gun violence, with young women taking the lead
Gender-based violence is a key cause of the gun violence youth experience. Students exposed to gun violence suffer academically and emotionally, and they’re demanding change.
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