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Black women laundry workers finally get their due as organizers and leaders

August 9, 2021 By Beatrice Lumpkin

As a history of laundry workers and their 108-year struggle for justice from 1912 to 2020, Jenny Carson's book comes at an important time.

U.S. women make their historic mark at Tokyo Olympics

August 9, 2021 By Al Neal

The games ended, as they began, with empty stadiums and gilded pageantry.

Honoring the suffragists, women in white march for voting rights

July 19, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg

They call for protecting, strengthening, and increasing voting rights, the minimum wage, and ending the filibuster.

Senate Republicans defeat women’s equal pay bill, again

June 11, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg

Women are paid only 82 cents for every dollar paid to men, and this gap is greater for women of color. The Senate GOP just made sure that will all continue.

Varieties of working-class women: ‘Wanted,’ ‘Bitter Daisies’ and ‘Mare of Easttown’

June 1, 2021 By Dennis Broe

In large parts of the world, anywhere between 50 and 70% of women are now actively engaged in the workplace. Most earn less than men, and many perform the essential service and caring jobs that keep...