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What Ms. Monopoly Shows about Our Cultural Unwillingness to Understand the Pay Gap

A photo of Ms Monopoly, a new board game from Hasbro. The game features an illustrated woman, presumably white, holding a coffee cup and staring at the camera with a soft smile.n
by Rachel Charlene Lewis
September 11, 2019 at 1:29pm
Despite potentially good intent, a presumably white woman in heels and doing a weird power pose on a board game about capitalism isn’t inspiring.
Serena Williams, a dark-skinned Black woman wearing blond, curly hair, poses on a red carpet

Collective Success: The Myth of Progress through Black Capitalism

by Jasmine Burnett
August 7, 2019 at 12:25pm
When we center and celebrate those who have succeeded in the capitalist project, it becomes easier to be captivated by the myth that hard work and effort will guarantee every Black woman the same success as Rihanna and Serena Williams. Read more »
a white woman with brown hair sits on a stage in a white chair

The Last Big Lean In: Corporate-Feminist Self-Help Was Always a Scam

by Alissa Quart
November 27, 2018 at 12:47pm
They sold advice to the same ambitious women they were later willing to sacrifice. Read more »
illustration of people shopping in a grocery store across from people farming

Growing Pains: Why Labor is the Real Food Movement We Should be Paying Attention To

by s.e. smith
September 20, 2018 at 2:01pm
Laborers—often migrant laborers—work long hours without access to basic employment protections. Read more »

I Consider the Union My Second Mother: An excerpt from "We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now: The Global Uprising Against Poverty Wages"

by Annelise Orleck
February 26, 2018 at 12:14pm
A compelling excerpt from We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now: The Global Uprising Against Poverty Wages.  Read more »
Yvonne Orji as Molly on Insecure

Pay Me What You Owe Me: “Insecure’s” Yvonne Orji Talks Black Women’s Equal Pay Day

by Evette Dionne
July 31, 2017 at 9:22am
Molly’s fight for equal pay mirrors a real life issue. Read more »

Backtalk: Hollywood Shenanigans—Revenge Porn & Unequal Pay

by Amy Lam
July 13, 2017 at 3:15pm
This week, Dahlia and Amy get into the latest in Hollywood shenanigans. First up is the potential prosecution of the sole Kardashian brother, Rob Kardashian, for posting revenge porn against his ex-fiance and mother of his infant daughter, Blac Chyna. Revenge porn is another realm of online... Read more »
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Ivanka’s World of “Women Who Work”: FEMINISTS UNITED TO COMBAT KAKISTOCRACY IN TRUMP TIMES

by Lisa Factora-Borchers
May 31, 2017 at 3:21pm
Ivanka Trump says she doesn’t know what it means to be “complicit,” but she does claim that she will improve the lives of “working women.” Read more »

History Speaks for Itself: Migration, Women of Color, and the Fight for Equal Pay

by Sung Yeon Choimorrow
April 4, 2017 at 1:20pm
The histories of wage disparities for women of color are different than those of white women, and these histories impact the stories we tell about equal pay and the solutions we generate. Read more »

Opportunity Costs: What the Olympics Show Us About the Economics of Women's Sports

by Kelly Burch
August 12, 2016 at 10:45am
Women who are skilled competitors and elite athletes should have the chance to shine more than once every four years. Read more »

Between a Boss and a Hard Place: Why More Women are Freelancing

by Sarah Grey
August 2, 2016 at 11:20am
Big corporations and startups alike have realized that it’s cheaper and easier to subcontract labor than to employ people. Read more »

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