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Tag Archives: womenWomen’s Campaign Fund Won’t Settle for Less Than HalfMonday night I attended the bipartisan Women’s Campaign Fund’s annual “Parties of Your Choice“.
As always, they begin with a raucous reception at Christie’s for several hundred guests, after which we all scatter around town for intimate dinners in beautiful homes. At each party, there are several WCF-endorsed candidates or elected officials who tell their tales and make their pitches. Here are a few photos I took during the evening, which was peppered with chants of “Change the players. Change the game.”
Posted in Activism, Leadership, Politics, Power, Women & Politics, Women's History
Tagged leadership, No Excuses, politics, power, women, women in politics
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The Young Politica: What’s Next for Student LoansIn my last column, I wrote about how the sequester could deeply impact students of all ages—by cutting education jobs, programs like Head Start, food stamps, and limiting financial aid. Well, once again, kids trying to get an education are at risk of being undercut by the federal government.
The interest rate of new federally subsidized Stafford loans will revert to 6.8 percent from 3.4 percent. The rate subsidized loans, which go to low-income households, was supposed to rise to 6.8 percent back in June 2012, but the rate’s expiration was postponed for a year. This year’s extension lasts until June 30, 2013. If Congress does not act to change the rules or extend the loan rate expiration date, an estimated 7.4 million college students will be affected. Note that each year the date to change the rate is extended, the federal government loses out on about $6 billion in revenue. But students don’t necessarily have to be the ones paying the price. If there would have been more oversight on the financial aid process, the federal government could have prevented a loss of $200 million in federal student aid fraud since 2009. What’s a good solution? Rather than postponing the expiration again, the House Education and the Workforce Committee argued that Congress should reevaluate their rate-setting process for all government-issued college loans. FoxNews.com reports that the Department of Education has also been sending out letters to inform Direct PLUS Loan borrowers that their fees are being raised as a direct result of the automatic budget cuts (or the sequester) that happened after the federal government could not come to a fiscal agreement. Fees for loans issued after March 1, 2013, will have an adjusted loan rate fee—from 4.0 percent to 4.204 percent. Students are taking more and more hits, but at least they’re putting up a fight.
Posted in Economy, Leadership, Politics, Power, Young Politica
Tagged leadership, power, sequester, Stafford Loans, Student Loan, Subsidized loans, women
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The Young Politica: Why the Paycheck Fairness Act Will Narrow the Wage GapLast week, Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) introduced the Paycheck Fairness Act, which would allow employees to discuss their salary information without the fear of companies pursuing legal action against them. The bill is on its third try. In a 2010 senate vote, the bill failed to get any Republican support, even by the female Republican Senators Susan Collins (R-ME), Kay Bailey Hutchinson (R-TX) and Olympia Snowe (R-ME), who all voted for the Lilly Ledbetter Act. According to Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), the Fair Pay Act will: • Amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to prohibit discrimination in the payment of wages on the basis of sex, race or national origin; • Require employers to provide equal pay for jobs that are comparable in skill, effort, responsibility and working conditions; • Prohibit companies from reducing other employees’ wages to achieve pay equity; • Require public disclosure of employer job categories and pay scales, without requiring specific information on individual employees; and • Allow payment of different wages under a seniority system, merit system, or system that measures earnings by quantity or quality of production. The bill makes perfect sense—give all female workers a chance to see what their equal male counterparts are earning, and see if it matches up without getting sued by employers. In an economy where women earn some 33% less than males, why wouldn’t politicians see this as a good measure for ensuring equal rights? The Young Politica: The Growing Debate On Unpaid InternshipsInternships are awesome. They look great on a resume and they help you hone your craft with real-world experience. As a journalism student, I’ve heard the same advice many times: “Do as many internships as you can.” So I have done internships, both paid and unpaid, for the sake of gaining some experience while I’m still in school. Within my school and other universities across the nation, it seems like full-time, unpaid internships are a common practice. For many, these unpaid internships are taken at the cost of relocating away from school (e.g. taking a summer internship in NYC) and/or paying for extra school credit. See, that’s a loophole, folks. As long as it is labeled as ‘educational’, an employer does not have to pay its intern. In reality, paying interns is not about thriving, really; it’s about surviving. Many times, a student is not even reimbursed for housing, food, or transportation. But there’s a group going against the current, telling students to resist unpaid work. #PayGenY, an initiative sponsored by She Negotiates Consulting and Training, argues that most unpaid internships are illegal. “We have a very simple lesson: influence for-profit employers, university and professional schools to pay interns,” Victoria Pynchon, co-founder of She Negotiates, said.
Posted in Leadership, Politics, Power, Women & Work, Women's Rights, Young Politica
Tagged educational internship, interns, internship, leadership, power, unpaid internship, women, work life balance
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The Young Politica: After the Fiscal Cliff, What?For now, it seems that the fiscal cliff crisis has been temporarily adverted. The Senate and House approved the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, which has prevented old budgeting from sending the country hurtling down the Fiscal Cliff. But don’t get too excited. The battle isn’t over and in some ways it’s just beginning. The new deal, which is designed to keep our economy from another recession, increases taxing on the wealthy but has temporarily halted many changes in government spending. In further detail, here’s what some of the new bill entails:
However, there’s been no real agreement on what should be done about government spending cuts.
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Happy 2013: Why Women Must Change Our Narrative to Break Through to Leadership
With a virtual thud, the Catalyst 2012 Census of Fortune 500 companies hit my e-mailbox:
Posted in Leadership, Power, Women's History
Tagged leadership, No Excuses, power, Start a Movement, women
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New Year’s Wishes for Women
Happy New Year! At this time of renewal, I’m reflecting on what we can achieve together as women. And how we can help each other as women. So I asked my favorite women’s advocates, “What do you wish for women in 2013?” What would you add to the list? Several decades ago, my cousin Chris gave me the following advice: “Remember to laugh out loud and make your own luck.” I have often marveled at just how challenging that is to do, but every day I strive to do both. I wish for women the collective will to hold elected officials’ feet to the fire on issues that really matter to us. After this election, it’s clear that women’s votes brought them into this world, and that women voters can also kick them out! The Young Politica: The Gender Gap’s Seven PercentIn a recent Forbes.com article, Meghan Casserly delved into the details of a recent study by the American Association of University of Women.
The study, which I covered briefly in an earlier column attempts to single out factors that may contribute to the wage gap (including the number of hours worked and the college major chosen). It turns out that even after AAUW factored in choices that may have affected women’s pay, women still earn seven percent less than men counterparts one year after college.
Posted in Gender, Leadership, Power, Women & Work, Young Politica
Tagged AAUW, College Graduates, female college graduates, leadership, Pay Equity, power, wage gap, women
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In Which I Answer POLITICO Arena’s Election Day Question: What were the campaigns’ biggest mistakes?A friend posted a photo on Facebook of a long line at her polling place this morning with the comment that “it’s a good sign when voters are treating an election like Black Friday at Walmart.” Now we have to wait all day to learn which of the candidates brought forth this outpouring of interest: do voters think Obama or Romney is the better bargain? Both campaigns have made mistakes galore, balancing each other out in about the same horserace numbers as the daily polls have recently shown the race to be. Romney’s worst was hoisting himself on his own petard of Etch-a-Sketch positions, thus eroding voter trust, then nailing his coffin with the deliberately false Jeep ad. Obama’s worst mistake was four years in the making. He failed to run, as Harry Truman successfully did, against the “do nothing Congress” that is more at fault for the lack of economic progress than the president who at least put forward some ideas. He had to re-energize many discouraged 2008 supporters as a result. But thanks to the Republican War on Women which Romney could not separate himself from, Obama was able to seize a set of issues that resonate with progressive women who make up almost 60% of the Democratic base. Romney’s mistakes were mistakes of character and likability; Obama’s were mistakes of leadership style.
Posted in Election Watch, Leadership, Politico Arena, Politics, Power, Women & Politics
Tagged Democrats, election, leadership, Politico Arena, politics, power, Republicans, women, women in politics
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The 2012 Election: Could our reproductive future be even worse than our past?
Watching the haunting images in Dorothy Fadiman’s new compilation, “Choice at Risk,” drawn from her award-winning PBS abortion rights trilogy, is even more unsettling than it was before. For years, I have shown Fadiman’s films about abortion to students, finding her work the most effective way to communicate to young people both the horrors of the pre-Roe v Wade era—as shown in her Oscar-nominated film, When Abortion was Illegal—and the continual threats to abortion rights since legalization. The third film in the trilogy, The Fragile Promise of Choice, offers a searing portrayal of the violence and harassment that abortion providers undergo as they struggle to meet the needs of their patients. But now, writing these words, I feel that this talented filmmaker, by editing her 2 ½ hour body of work into clips and mini-docs, is showing us in chilling detail, not only our past, but our possible future. A future, moreover, that may be even worse, in some respects, than the pre-Roe era she has so ably documented. How could anything be worse than the era of the back-alley butchers and women attempting to self-abort in dangerous ways? |
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