“What is happening? This is a posting for the same job as mine and it pays $10,000 more than I make?” That is the question I posed to my supervisor more than 20 years ago as a young Black female lawyer in what was considered a high-paying job in New York City. There was no good answer given, so I applied for the job. This was the first time I discovered the issue of pay inequity for Black women, and unfortunately, I went on to discover many examples throughout my career.
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Legal Momentum announces a new online training course, Helping Sexual Assault Victims Navigate the Criminal Justice System, designed to prepare non-lawyer victim advocates to help their clients navigate the criminal justice process.
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Recent immigration policies, including the separation and detention of families entering at the U.S.-Mexico border and the Attorney General’s decision to deny asylum to victims of domestic violence, reinforce existing inequalities that disproportionately impact immigrant women.
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I remember coming home after having dinner with a male friend and being asked by my mother: “Did he pay the bill?”
“No, we split it. Why would he?” I asked.
My mother just shook her head. “He’s no good.”
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They create two types of women in bedtime stories: the innocent and gullible princess and the deceitful and wicked witch. They ask all women to be the former, but secretly believe that all women are the latter. They demand that women be pure—but call women natural liars.
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On Wednesday, March 21, the Senate voted overwhelmingly, 97-2, to pass FOSTA-SESTA, the anti-trafficking bill that modifies Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996. The bill will enable survivors of online commercial sex trafficking to sue the websites that facilitate this evil. It now goes to the President’s desk in the White House.
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"I don't make history, I am history." — Joan Baez
As we celebrate Women’s History Month, it makes sense to think about who makes history and how the present time will be viewed from the perspective of the future.
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Legal Momentum was deeply saddened by the passing on March 16 of Lisa Quiroz, president of the Time Warner Foundation and senior vice president and chief diversity officer of Time Warner. Ms. Quiroz was a 2017 Aiming High awardee—honored by Legal Momentum last year because of her deep and longstanding personal and professional commitment to nurturing diverse talent and creating quality content for multicultural audiences.
