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Equal Pay is a Racial Justice Issue
American women overall are paid only 80 cents to every dollar a man takes home, and the wage gap gets worse when factoring in race—and even wider when you add motherhood as a factor in addition to gender and race. Here in Pennsylvania, Black moms only make 55 percent...
Juneteenth
In solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, the Women’s Law Project is closed today in observance of Juneteenth. Juneteenth commemorates the day in 1865 that Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas with news the war was over and the people who had been...
Victory! Federal Civil Rights Protections Cover LGBTQ+ Workers & What It Means for Pennsylvania
The Supreme Court of the United States ruled that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender workers from workplace discrimination. Today’s opinion in Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia is a major victory for LGBTQ+...
Action Alert: Help Protect Philadelphia’s Black Frontline Workers
The pandemic is not over. Now is the time to ensure frontline workers are protected from unnecessary risk exposure to COVID-19 and retaliation for voicing concerns about safety in the workplace. We proudly support this legislation alongside community partners, but we...
A Message from our Executive Director
Eight minutes and forty-six seconds. Eight shots fired into a woman sleeping in her own home. 401 years. This country was founded on the backs of stolen Black lives and labor. White supremacy is deeply embedded in our institutions, our systems, our society. We all...
