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Vim's new ad is a nudge to society to see women beyond archaic roles
It urges the audience to not reduce a woman's identity to her chores
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Biden invited the gay nephew of the GOP congresswoman who decried marriage equality to the White House to watch him sign it into law
GOP congresswoman Vicky Hartzler went viral last month for tearfully begging colleagues to vote aga…
Sophia Ankel
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Advocates say Latinas who make less than their white colleagues are 'screaming into the void' on Equal Pay Day
Latinas still make less than white men. This Latina Equal Pay Day, here's what experts say can be d…
Gwen Aviles
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Britain's Parliament has a problem with sexual harassment. Meet the team trying to change that.
MP Rob Roberts was found to have sexually harassed a female intern - but he's still in his job more…
Bethany Dawson,Henry Dyer
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3 ways to fix the economy for essential workers, according to a leading labor activist
"If there is a set of workers who are unprotected and highly insecure," it's a risk to us all, acco…
Juliana Kaplan
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Pelosi said lawmakers should 'just go to the beach and forget the whole thing' if voting rights legislation failed, book says
Pelosi clashed with the White House over what she saw as lack of urgency to pass the bill and even …
Grace Panetta,Brent D. Griffi…
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The student-loan industry was created to give everyone an equal shot at the American Dream. The opposite happened.
LBJ had a vision for America: equal access to higher education. So he expanded student loans, and n…
Ayelet Sheffey
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Buttigieg says he doesn't get why some House Republicans voted against gay marriage bill and tells Senate to 'vote yes and move on'
After GOP Sen. Marco Rubio called the vote on codifying gay marriage a "stupid waste of time," Butt…
Katie Balevic
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GOP Sen. Mike Braun says he would vote to codify 'settled' interracial marriage but wants to 'wait and see' what his constituents think about same-sex unions
Braun flubbed a question on interracial marriage in March. On Wednesday, he joined other Republican…
Bryan Metzger
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Mothers make just 75 cents for each dollar fathers make, and it means a mom would have to work til May 5 to earn what a dad made last year
Moms had to work an extra 125 days, or about four months, into 2021 to earn what fathers made in ju…
Madison Hoff
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Bill introduced in Congress hopes to force US Soccer Federation to pay men's and women's national team members equally
The GOALS Act threatens to block federal funding of the 2026 World Cup unless the US Soccer Federat…
Meredith Cash
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The US is leaving economic growth on the table by failing to close gender gaps in pay and hiring, Moody's says
Labor-force participation among women aged 24 to 54 plummeted during the pandemic and has since set…
Ben Winck
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The House will vote on legislation protecting marriage equality after Clarence Thomas said the Supreme Court should 'reconsider' gay marriage decision
The Supreme Court's decision to overturn the constitutional right to abortion has prompted Congress…
Kayla Gallagher
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September 8 is Mothers' Equal Pay Day, a day that's 'not a cause for celebration' as the wage gap between mothers and fathers persists
It would take a mom working from the start of 2021 through today to earn as much as a dad did last …
Madison Hoff
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A judge threw out the USWNT's equal pay lawsuit against US Soccer — here's why
Since the USWNT "rejected an offer to be paid under the same pay-to-play structure" as the men, the…
Meredith Cash
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Louisiana governor posthumously pardons Homer Plessy from infamous 'separate but equal' Supreme Court case
Plessy v Ferguson was a case argued in the US Supreme Court in 1896 which became the catalyst for a…
DeArbea Walker
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The House just passed the Equality Act which includes major protections to prevent LGBTQ discrimination
"Much of the history of the United States has been about expanding the definition of who is underst…
Joe Perticone
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Louisiana board votes to posthumously pardon Homer Plessy, namesake of the landmark 'separate but equal' ruling
Plessy pled guilty to violating the Louisiana Separate Car Act and was fined $25. He died in 1925 a…
John L. Dorman
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Latinas still endure one of the widest pay gaps of any group. On Latina Equal Pay Day, here's what policymakers, organizations, and companies can do to combat pay discrimination.
Fifty years after the Equal Pay Act of 1963, Latinas had to work 22 months to make the same salary …
Lola Méndez
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US Paralympic athletes will receive equal pay for the first time at the Tokyo Olympics
Before the change, US Paralympic athletes received $7,500 for every gold medal they won, while Olym…