On Monday, March 8 as we celebrated International Women’s Day, I received many empowering messages from my female friends from all walks of life. But at this moment in history, the irony of the situation is that while women have made tremendous strides in the workplace with fulfilling careers and i
Crisis far from over for Maine women suffering prolonged unemployment
The state lost more than 48,000 jobs from February to December of last year, and women held 57% of those jobs. The crisis has drawn attention to systemic inequities for Maine s working women.
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Abby Howell of Biddeford holds her children, 4-month-old Audrey, left, and Eloise Garafalo, 2, at their home on Thursday. Howell is one of thousands of Maine women who ve had to leave jobs or are having trouble finding work because of child and family care pressures related to the pandemic and recession. Shawn Patrick Ouellette/Staff Photographer
As parts of Maine’s economy recover from the damage wrought by the coronavirus pandemic, many women are being held back from getting a new job after being laid off or are dropping out of the workforce because of conflicting responsibilities at home.
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When Burger King made a major misfire on International Women’s Day this week, tweeting the phrase “women belong in the kitchen,” social media lit up with furious women.
The actual tweet, by Burger King U.K., was part of a campaign meant to promote scholarships for culinary education for women, and it was only in subsequent tweets that the intended meaning was explained. But the incandescent reaction serves only to highlight that the issue of women s household roles is a tinder box.
Warning signs were already there. In January, a coronavirus-themed digital campaign by the U.K. government also provoked fury. The social media ad, with the tagline Stay home, save lives, shown here by The Guardian, featured an illustration of four small houses. In three of them, female stick figures were depicted homeschooling, cleaning and ironing. In the other house, a man was pictured sitting on a sofa with a woman and child. The image went viral and was later pulled amid co
Editor s Note: This is a column by Executive Editor Rana Cash. She lived and worked in Louisville at the time of Breonna Taylor s shooting and death.
It helps sometimes to let despair go instead of lugging it around. Soulful singer Erykah Badu’s words of caution “You gone hurt your back, dragging all them bags like that” foretold of days like these, when the burden of Black womanhood would be heavy.
The death of Breonna Taylor, followed by the controversial decision to not deliver an indictment in her death, was for many Black women another brick in a sack already filled with the weight of the world.
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