Tag Archives: equal pay
Keep your flowers, I want change for Mother’s Day
This year for Mother’s Day you can keep your flowers, candy, and spa gift certificates. What I want is some change — some real progressive change for women and their … Continue reading
Waiting for Equal Pay Day
What would you do with your lost $11,000 in wages? That is the question on deck this Equal Pay Day, the annual day that marks how far into the following … Continue reading
The Progressive Agenda: A Legislative Wish List
Today marks the start of 77th (regular) session of the Nevada Legislature! Can you feel the excitement? For the next 120 days of the (regular) session, people across the state … Continue reading
Feminist Files: If you aren’t outraged, you aren’t paying attention
Make it rain: Today is the fourth anniversary of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. But we still don’t have a Paycheck Fairness Act, which would give Ledbetter the teeth … Continue reading
Waiting for Norma Rae
As anxious shoppers trekked from the warmth of their homes for Black Friday deals, at Walmarts across the country workers seized the day to strike for fair wages and fair … Continue reading
Debate night talking points: The ‘what you won’t hear’ round-up
I was going to write a post about my predictions about what you won’t hear President Barrack Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney talk about during Wednesday’s debate. But then I … Continue reading
Mythbusters: Blame it on the wages
June is a lot of things… Gay Pride month; a time for Juneteenth celebrations; and it is the peak of the wedding season. But what I didn’t know was that, … Continue reading
What’s eating The Sin City Siren
All week I’ve been thinking about how to write about the third anniversary of Dr. Tiller’s death — an abortion provider in Kansas who was shot dead while he was … Continue reading
Feminist Files: Never mind the bullocks
F That: So did you hear the one about the woman who was kicked off an airplane for wearing an “offensive” prochoice t-shirt? Or was it a miniskirt? … Wait. … Continue reading
