Today marks Juneteenth, an annual celebration commemorating the end of slavery in the United States in 1865. If you’re wondering why it took more than two years after President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation for slaves to be free, it’s because that...
Virginia, like most of America, has a racial inequity problem, and in many cases, this inequity disproportionately affects women.
The ERA is only twenty four words long, but those twenty four words aim to end the legal distinctions between men and women in terms of divorce, property, employment, and other matters.
72% of Virginians believe abortion should be legal; Virginia’s laws just don’t represent that quiet majority yet.
Women in Virginia make 79 cents for every dollar paid to a man, a difference that adds up to nearly $12,000 per year.
The lack of competitive teacher pay in Virginia is particularly harmful for women, who comprise 79% of the teaching force in the state.
In 2017, 59% of the 70,000 workers earning the minimum wage or less in Virginia were women.
79% of black mothers, 48% of white mothers and 48% of Latina mothers in Virginia are the key breadwinners in their families, making affordable childcare critical for women in Virginia.
The United States is the only country in the developed world that doesn’t guarantee paid family leave for working men and women.
From 2004 to 2013, 37% of female murder victims in Virginia were killed by an intimate partner, and six out of every ten of those murders was carried out with a firearm.
