It’s Equal Pay Day! Here’s what we’re reading today:
• Here’s some research on the inequities that contribute to the wage gap. [Pew Research Center]
• While women in the United States earn on average 78 cents for every dollar men take home, race also plays a role in the wage gap. Check out this look at the wage gap broken down by race. [Center for American Progress]
• And one more little chart: Male nurses make more money than female nurses in pretty much every way. [Sociological Images]
• What if pastors talked about contraception from the pulpit? [Ebony]
• Five women who distributed anti-domestic violence stickers and posters in China were arrested last month. Now there’s good news: The “Beijing Five” have all been released. [The Mary Sue]
• It’s been one year since the Boko Haram abducted 200 girls in Nigeria—reflecting on #BringOurGirlsBack is heartwrenching. [CNN]
• Once people are convicted of a felony, their voting rights are revoked. That’s led to high rates of disenfranchisement in some communities. Now, Maryland may restore voting rights for 40,000 people released from prison. [Mother Jones]
• In Britain, the Independent Party is pushing for a national conversation about race, immigration, and identity. [The Atlantic]
What did I miss? Add what you’re reading to the comments.
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Ehhh
2016SA replied on
Uh, I would hardly call the rise of UKIP a "national conversation about race, immigration, and identity". I would call that summary a valiant attempt at sanitizing a hate group and a symptom of a lack of research into international affairs beyond a headline.
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