Despite some progress, women still experience high rates of workplace sexual harassment. How can we hold employers more liable for pervasive and inappropriate workplace behavior and culture?

by womensdebate | Jul 19, 2016 | Questions: Personal Safety

We’re Being Bold Over at BOLD About Women’s Issues

by womensdebate | Jul 10, 2016 | News

Check out our newest piece at Bold about the need for a debate on women’s issues, and the pervasive misunderstanding of what women’s issues are about: A Presidential Debate on Women’s Issues? In January, Showtime debuted a docuseries behind the 2016...

We Can No Longer Be Silent: How Intimate Partner Violence Affects Women of Color

by womensdebate | Jul 7, 2016 | Personal Safety

The sexual abuse to prison pipeline, and its disproportionate effects on women of color and low-income women, is yet another demonstration of the relationships between: intimate partner violence, lack of mental health for low-income women, high rates of violence...

Women’s Debate Asks What’s Next?

by womensdebate | Jul 6, 2016 | News

Here at The Women’s Debate, we have to keep asking, “what’s next?” What’s next as we work to eliminate the barriers to equity? What’s next as we call out and work to reform the system that inadequately persecutes sexual assault and rape cases? What’s next for...

Women in America’s Blue-Collar Communities Face the Biggest Pay Gap

by womensdebate | Jul 2, 2016 | Economic Opportunities

The female working class earns a fifth less than men A focus on vocational education in working-class towns helps men find good paying local jobs as manual laborers and machinists. For women in those same blue-collar milieus, it often means lower pay or no work at...