By Preston Derrick Think about an event you participated in: a choir concert, a band performance, a football game or a presentation. Imagine the event is completely full. Friends, family and supporters are pouring in like crazy. Your heart fills with joy. But now imagine the event space is mostly empty. All the hard work you […]
Reporters, Who You Gonna Call?
May 27, 2016 by
By Nicolas Lopez When journalists are looking for sources, more than three-quarters of the time they turn to me. Only 24 percent of the people you hear, see, or read about in the news are women, shows the most recent report by the Global Media Monitoring Project. Every five years since 1995, the Global Media Monitoring Project […]
Pay Gap Less Prevalent in Cosmetology, Barbers Say
May 26, 2016 by
By Julie Castaneda College may not necessarily be an advantage in closing the gender wage gap. A recent study shows young women earn 92 cents on a man’s dollar among high school graduates. Among college graduates, young women with a college degree earn only 79 percent of what is paid to similarly educated men Desiree […]
Who Makes More in Tips? Most Say Women Do
May 26, 2016 by
By Kortni Robinson and Nicole Casperson Struggling college student Audrey Parisi works weekends at Las Brisas Steakhouse to make ends meet. On Friday nights, Parisi comes in hoping to be assigned as a bar back on the patio, where the men hang out, to get the big bucks in tips. “I make more as a […]
Does Fairness Have a Color?
May 25, 2016 by
By Julie Gomez Nicolasa Sanchez recalls the moment she first noticed her husband was getting paid more than she was for doing the same job. “I look back and know that it wasn’t right. I should have spoken up.” “I thought this wasn’t fair,” she said. “But I didn’t say anything because he’s my husband […]
The Pink Ghetto Problem: Escape or Repaint?
May 25, 2016 by
By Victoria Landers Women make on average 79 cents to each dollar men make, and in some occupations, that gap is much greater. Although the gap is getting smaller, the difference between men’s and women’s earnings has seen some fluctuation for the past 40-plus years. “Today, the largest factors contributing to the wage gap are […]
The Work ‘Closet’: Alive and Well, Thank You Very Much
May 24, 2016 by
By Kaitlin Bain Mark Phariss, a Plano attorney and a past plaintiff in Texas’s most notable same-sex marriage case, worked in his previous job for 10 years, and every day he kept his sexuality a secret. Phariss’s past experience matches that of many people who identify as gay, lesbian or transgender. Workplace discrimination based on […]
Sexism in Court: Female Attorneys Recall Marcia Clark
May 24, 2016 by
By Emily Hamilton “Marcia Clark gets a new hairdo and stuns the courtroom. The District Attorney has never looked more RUFF!” –The National Examiner It was 1994. Heisman winner and NFL Hall of Famer O.J. Simpson had been charged with the brutal slaughtering of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ronald Goldman. Instead, America chose […]
