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Today marks the day into the next year where a woman on average meets the earnings of what an average man earned in 2020. That is a whopping 15 months. In other words, women work for free for 3 months compared to their male co-workers. If you look at a typical 9:00-5:00 work day, women
Read moreToday, March 9th , is the day an Asian American/Pacific Islander woman finally hits the annual salary from last year that of her non-Hispanic male counterpart. The average Asian American/Pacific Islander Woman is paid $0.87 for every $1.00 paid to their white, non-Hispanic male counterpart, losing hundreds of thousands of dollars over an entire career.
Read moreMarch is not only Women’s History Month but it incorporates some other important dates as well, like International Women’s Day. The Women’s Department along with Ivana Saula, Canadian Territory Women’s and Human Rights laison and some other members, wanted to highlight these trailblazing women below. Charlotte Edith Anderson Monture- Canada Edith Monture accomplished many firsts
Read moreKanno Sugako- Japan, a Japanese feminist, Japan’s first female journalist, advocate of women’s rights, and author. Her life ended abruptly when she was executed for her part in a plot to assassinate the Emperor. She remains the only woman to be executed in Japan for treason. Sugako had admitted her guilt in the plot, as had
Read moreJuana Belén Gutiérrez Chavez (later de Mendoza), from Mexico was an advocate for worker’s in Mexico, Indigenous rights, and the founder of a group that advocated for better working conditions for women. She later became a teacher, translated numerous classic anarchist texts into Spanish, and contributed prolifically to revolutionary publications, and more mainstream ones on working
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