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Cabinet secretaries Marcia Fudge, Jennifer Granholm and Gina Raimondo said they all had to staff up when they started running their agencies but that it gave them a chance to diversify.

In the first four months of 2021, Republican lawmakers introduced over 360 bills to restrict voting rights and 536 bills to restrict abortion rights. The defeat of Donald Trump, and Biden’s attempts to dismantle Trump’s white supremacist agenda, have inspired a fevered campaign by state-level Republican lawmakers of voter suppression and abortion restrictions. While at first glance these efforts might appear to be unrelated, they are deeply connected, says Smith College professor Loretta Ross.

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A new study from National Women's Law Center and Columbia University in the City of New York reveals the to getting women back to the workforce and increasing women’s lifetime earning potential. Hint: It’s something we already know that we deserve. Universal childcare.

Justice and accountability are necessary but policy change and action must also happen. Today, we finally saw some accountability with a guilty verdict. Our hearts are with George Floyd's family. Today's verdict doesn't fix a broken system. And we remember the lives that have never found justice. We continue the fight for justice and liberation in their name. BLACK LIVES MATTER

"If we don’t all play our parts as proponents of fairness and equality, harmful stereotypes will continue to infect the coverage and undermine the success of the many diverse women who are now entering the top tiers of government. Take action when you see women leaders being ignored or dismissed by sexist coverage by calling it out. Today, more than ever before, let your voice demand that their voices are heard." Well done Lois Phillips and Anita Perez Ferguson!

Let’s normalize working mothers and ALL the duties that title comes with by encouraging more inclusive & supportive work environments. Shoutout to all the moms out there and their village making it happen at home and at work.

This #EqualPayDay, we need our leaders to fight like hell for the women who need it most. It’s no secret that womenparticularly Black women and Latinasaren’t... paid fairly. And the #Covid19 crisis is making that reality even worse. New research from Lean In and SurveyMonkey found that half of Latinas and Black women have struggled to pay for basic necessities like rent and childcare in the past yearand half have less than $300 in savings to fall back on in an emergency. Millions of Black women and Latinas have been pushed to the edge of poverty by a system that was stacked against them well before coronavirus. We urgently need systemic change, including closing the gender and racial pay gaps, raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour, making childcare more accessible and affordable, and providing national paid family leave. Business leaders and policymakers need to take bold steps NOW. leanin.org/equalpayday

President Biden supports the ERA! "It is long past time that we enshrine the principle of gender equality in our Constitution" ERA NOW! We can do this!

"Petersen started her climate experiments in the fifth grade, learning Python programming and creating a tool that successfully predicted skiing conditions. Struck by the power programming has to understand the world, she embarked on her Crop4Cast project after learning about a drought in Ethiopia that left 18 million people at risk for starvation. I have three adopted siblings who all faced food insecurity in their former homes, Petersen explains. I wanted to help by monitoring crop health as crops develop. When it comes to STEM, I learned it’s never too early to get started.

As we collectively grieve and respond to the violent attack on our community, we must center the needs of those most directly impacted: the victims and their fa...milies. We need your help. Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Atlanta is calling on you, our allies in Georgia and across the country, to join us by providing community care. 3 Ways to support: 1. Sign on to our collective community statement. bit.ly/aaajcommunitystatement 2. Donate to support the victims and their families. bit.ly/DonateToGeorgiaAAPICommunity 3. Share crisis response resources. bit.ly/georgiaAAPIcommunitycare __ #StopAsianHate #Asian #AsianAmerican #CommunityCare #GA #Georgia

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"As Black women, as Black Americans, as human beings. No matter how poor or how hard of times fell upon a person, [Cicely Tyson] insisted they deserved to be represented with the poise and resolve so quintessentially her."

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