Women's History is Every Month: Women's March gave us our best grounds for hope; Latina workers have to work 10 months into 2

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Women's History is Every Month: Women's March gave us our best grounds for hope; Latina workers have to work 10 months into 2018; Billionaire Heiress Lashes Out at Unions; Miscarrying at Work; Deaths And Disfigurements Of The 'Radium Girls'; Women Of Color Who Criticize Israel Won Big;


How the Women's March gave us our best grounds for hope





Latina workers have to work 10 months into 2018 to be paid the same as white non-Hispanic men in 2017

"Latinas are, thus, vastly over-represented in low-wage jobs and relatively under-represented in high-wage jobs. In fact, Latinas’ median wages are just about those of white men’s 20th percentile wage. In other words, half of all Latina workers are paid less than the 20th percentile white male worker. Meanwhile, by comparing the white male median to the 80th percentile Latinas’ wages, you can see that more than half of white men are paid over $22 an hour while only 20 percent of Latinas are. At the high end, only about one in 20 Latina workers are paid more than white male workers at the 80th percentile.

Much of these differences are grounded in the presence of occupational segregation. Latina workers are far more likely to be found in certain low-wage professions than white men are (and less common in high-wage professions). But, even in professions with more Latina workers, they still are paid less on average than their white male colleagues. Figure B shows the average wages of Hispanic women and white non-Hispanic men in the ten most common occupations for Latinas. In every one of them, white men, on average, are paid more than their Latina counterparts."










Billionaire Heiress Lashes Out at Unions Because Her Fortune Didn’t Buy Election




Women Of Color Who Criticize Israel Won Big. That’s Good For American Jews.

"For a few years now, the American Jewish community has engaged in a reevaluation of its relationship with Israel, questioning the extent to which Israel deserves unconditional support in light of its increasingly tenuous commitment to liberal democracy.

There’s the entrenched and brutal occupation of the Palestinians in the West Bank and the deprivation of their civil rights; the iron-fisted reign of the ultra Orthodox over matters of personal status and prayer at the Western Wall; and the increasing and explicit commitment to ethnocentric nationalism, most recently expressed by a “Nation State bill” which, at least symbolically, elevated the status of Jews and demoted the status of minorities in Israel.

For the past few years, these features of Israel have put the American Jewish community in a tough position; the vast majority of American Jews are liberal Zionists who support Israel but not its occupation of the Palestinians.

That tension at the heart of the American Jewish community has only been heightened by the Trump Administration, who most American Jews do not support despite Trump’s extreme support of Israel. In just two years, Trump moved the embassy to Jerusalem, withdrew all aid from the Palestinians, and scuttled the Iran deal.




But these efforts have only frustrated American Jews further, empowering Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to further sideline the Diaspora community’s concern for civil rights and religious pluralism.




This tension between Israel and the American Jewish community has American Jews reevaluating not only their relationship with Israel, but their very identity as a community.

This has never been more true than after the massacre in Pittsburgh. The American Jewish community is still reeling from events of October 27, when Robert Bowers walked into the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, taking 11 lives as well as the feeling of safety that many Jews felt was part of their American birthright.

It was a stark reminder that at least to the murderous white nationalists in this country, we are still a minority.

More stark of a reminder was the love and support that came flowing out of other minority communities in America, especially the Muslim and black communities.

Black churches across the country held vigils and stood in prayer with us. So did Muslim communities, who also raised over $200,000 for burials for the victims.







Less supportive was Israel. From Israeli Ambassador Ron Dermer’s disastrous interview repeating Trump’s “both sides” phrase, to Naftali Bennett’s appalling statement that he’s “not sure there’s a surge of anti-Semitism in the United States,” to Israeli opposition leader Avi Gabbay’s outrageous suggestion that the shooting should encourage American Jews to move to Israel, Israel’s representatives shocked, appalled, and angered American Jews grieving for their loss.







Most shocking was the astounding decision made across the board to defend President Trump, who many American Jews saw as the killer’s catalyst. It was the fact that Jews helped immigrants — demonized by the President — that sent Bowers over the edge. Yet just days later, Trump again suggested absent evidence that George Soros could be behind the asylum seekers making their way to the border."

Read more: https://forward.com/opinion/413781/women-of-color-who-criticize-israel-won-big-thats-good-for-american-jews/



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