Kamala Harris will forever have “first” attached to her name — the first woman, the first Black American and the first person of South Asian descent to serve as vice president of the United States.
If the Biden administration’s choices for cabinet members and senior officials are approved, many of them will also be firsts — including the first Black, Latino, Native American, female and openly gay and transgender leaders to serve in various positions. Read more>>>
That the burdens of COVID-19 are not borne equally by all has been apparent from the beginning. Vox reported last month, for example, that Black Americans infected with the virus are dying at twice the rate of white Americans. In July, the New York Times found that Black and Latinx residents of the United States were three times as likely to become infected as their white neighbors. And this week, a new report found that amid all the economic chaos caused by the pandemic, Black women with children are being forced out of the workforce at rates far higher than any other group. Read more>>>
In its latest survey, the Hollywood Commission, an organization chaired by Anita Hill, found that gender harassment, or offensive workplace talk, is the most common type of harassment in the entertainment industry. Read more>>>
Anita Hill knows how sexual harassment can upend a career.
The lawyer who testified that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas had sexually harassed her saw her reputation vilified and story questioned in the national media. So as head of the Commission on Sexual Harassment and Advancing Equality in the Workplace, Hill’s assessment of the Hollywood Survey carries a particular weight. Read more>>>
Among health care workers, nurses in particular have been at significant risk of contracting Covid-19, according to a new analysis of hospitalized patients by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Read more>>>
In 1971, I interviewed a young doctor in Michigan who had been working as an ER physician but wanted to open her own medical practice. She applied for a bank loan, and was duly informed she needed her husband’s signature in order to get the loan.
Mind you, the doctor was earning a substantial salary at the time; her husband was unemployed, but no matter. She had to get his signature. Read more>>>
Before I Die, I … want women and girls to be whoever they want to be – a CEO, a Doctor, a Professor, a Mother, an Elected Official, a Wife, an Astronaut, all of the above – without fear and without question!
Before I Die, I would like to create Auntie Karen’s Place, a 50-acre artist village and incubator in the South Carolina Low Country.
Before I Die, I would like to see the Supreme Court make pro-choice.the law of the land and beyond challenge.
Before I Die, I … want children to grow up without hearing about boy books and girl books, boys like trucks but girls don’t and all the “gender defining” talk that creates self limitations in the minds of girls.