New York becomes the first city in the country to ensure that women receive free tampons and sanitary pads in schools, jails and shelters. This program is unique to the extent that its advocates argue hindrances to access of female hygiene products result in discrimination. Back in March, New York City Council members had introduced […]
Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2016: Riveting Accounts of Enduring Struggles
This year’s Human Rights Watch Film Festival features movies highlighting women’s rights issues from around the globe. From Hooligan Sparrow (Dir: Nanfu Wang) with activist Ye Haiyan as the protagonist, to Jackson (Dir: Maisie Crow) detailing the crisis of abortion access in Mississippi, to Starless Dreams (Dir: Kristi Jacobson) that portrays young adult women in a […]
New York Gender Identity Discrimination Law
As of January 2016 the New York State Human Rights Law bans discrimination and harassment against transgender people, which means that all public and private employers, housing providers, and businesses are prohibited from discriminating against transgender people anywhere within the state of New York. This new progressive law’s biggest impact will be in the workplace, […]
Everything changes when you take responsibility
By Deborah O’Rell Twenty something years ago, while at a ten-day Tony Robbins seminar, I had a huge breakthrough regarding what my problem was, what was causing me the majority of the pain and angst I was experiencing. He spoke about changing your life by asking better questions. At the time I was at the […]
The stubborn pay gap and how to bridge it
Following the recent passage of equal pay bill in California, the debate has resurfaced – how to implement this goal to establishing equality in pay nationwide, and what researches back up the credibility of such a need (since apparently, we somehow manage to remain in doubts about paying women equally even in 2016). Sharing an […]