Women's eNews

Apr 24

Color Lines Create Widest Pay Gaps

The worst pay disparities are not male-female, they are experienced by people of color.

The same AAUW report that finds an ongoing gender pay gap also notes the effect of discrimination on women and men of color. While both Hispanic and African American women earn 91 percent of what Hispanic and African American men earn, all four of those average salaries are lower than white women.

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Mar 22

Ida B. Wells read byCarol Jenkins

Having lost my paper, had a price put on my life, and been made an exile from home for hinting at the truth, I felt I owed it to myself and to my race to tell the whole truth now that I was where I could do so freely… . Accordingly, the fourth week in June the New York Age had a seven-column article on the front page giving names, dates, and places of many lynchings for alleged rape. This article showed conclusively that my article in the Free Speech was based on facts of illicit association between black men and white women… . I found that white men who had created a race of mulattoes by raping and consorting with Negro women … these same white men lynched, burned, and tortured Negro men for doing the same thing with white women, even when the white women were willing victims… . [The Age] printed ten thousand copies of that issue … and broadcast them throughout the country and the South. One thousand copies were sold in the streets of Memphis alone.

Public Worker Layoffs Target Women of Color

New York City laid off 642 support-staff workers, predominately women of color, in early October 2011.

New York City has eliminated 10,000 public sector jobs since 2003, but it has also doubled its contracts budget from $5 billion to $10.5 billion since 2005, according to Henry Garrido, associate director for DC 37.

Federal workers are also getting phased out by private contracts.

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