Latest from Chabeli Carrazana
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White House reveals nation’s first gender equity strategy, aiming to close the pay gap and increase abortion access
The Biden administration’s Gender Policy Council has released a strategy that requires each agency to figure out how to implement measures to reach key goals and makes long-awaited reforms to data collection.
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Pete Buttigieg took parental leave. LGBTQ+ advocates and administration officials say that should be normal.
A paid-leave proposal is part of the White House’s proposed Build Back Better legislation.
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What does child care look like when it works?
A center in Tennessee has a model that could make child care sustainable in the long run — by taking the business side out of day cares.
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September saw one of the biggest drops in women's jobs since pandemic began
More than 300,000 women left the labor force last month, the second time in the pandemic that the start of a new school year and loss of child care has caused a major drop-off of women from the workforce.
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Can the U.S. create universal pre-K without repeating past mistakes?
A proposed $450 billion investment in child care and preschool could fundamentally change the nation’s approach to early learning — but getting the right money to the right people is complicated.
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The Census Bureau’s first ever data on LGBTQ+ people indicates deep disparities
Sexual orientation and gender identity were added to the U.S. Census Bureau’s survey of the pandemic this summer — the first time a national government survey has captured the LGBTQ+ economic experience.
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Women first responders were erased from the 9/11 story. This woman wants to change that
Brenda Berkman, who sued the city of New York to ensure that women could become firefighters, has fought to raise awareness of the women first responders on the frontlines during 9/11.
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How abortion restrictions like Texas' push pregnant people into poverty
A study of hundreds of pregnant women over a decade found that 72 percent of those who were denied care ended up living in poverty.
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Black women’s unemployment is up as hospitality and retail stopped adding jobs in August
Growth in the industries that had helped women regain jobs in the labor force this year ground to a halt in August, as the spread of the Delta variant drove business closures.
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67 abortions in 17 hours: Inside a Texas clinic’s race to beat new six-week abortion ban
At Whole Woman’s Health in Fort Worth, it was a race to perform as many abortions as possible until midnight, when a new Texas ban on the procedure became law.