June 3rd, 2016 | Deeds Digest No. 2
Hey #ChangeMakers,
It's our second Deeds Digest. We hope you are enjoying these inspiring profiles and informative stories about the world of women's equality. If you do one deed this week, send this newsletter to a friend and get them to sign-up. We have more exciting opportunities to get involved in the coming weeks, and we need every one of you and your friends to be a part of our energetic and growing community!
xo,
Wendy
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This week's #ChangeMaker is Amanda Nguyen. Amanda is the founder of the organization Rise and helped draft the legislation for the Sexual Assault Survivor Bill of Rights. Amanda began advocating for legal protections for sexual assault victims after repeatedly facing challenges to prevent her rape kit from being destroyed in Massachusetts. And by the way, she’s also a Harvard alum, Deputy White House Liaison at the State Department and an astronaut in training. Read more about her here. New York Times
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It is no coincidence that states where it is hardest to obtain a safe and legal abortion are also the states where black women are most likely to live in poverty. Race and class are primary to a woman’s access of healthcare, contraception, and abortion. As a nation we need to include gender equity and economic stability in our discussions of women’s healthcare options. YES! Magazine
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Maryland Congresswoman Donna Edwards explains that we are neither post-racial nor post-gender using her own experience of crashing into the glass ceiling during her run for senate. Cosmopolitan
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In the Jim Crow South of the early 1960s, behind the secrecy of NASA’s walls, the upcoming film “Hidden Figures” shares the story of three female African-American mathematicians who were invaluable to the success of our country’s space program. The female-driven star studded cast includes Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, and Kirsten Dunst. New York Times
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An abortion desert is forming, from Florida to New Mexico and north into the Midwest, as the number of clinics is rapidly declining due to states implementing increasingly more restrictive laws. And women – especially lower income women – are being penalized by this wasteland. Women are compelled to try to organize their finances, and work schedules in order to travel across state lines to avoid the legal barriers in their home states as well as circumvent shockingly long appointment wait times. LA Times
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While we are on our way to electing our first female president, women are still left out of the most powerful jobs in the country. According to a study by PricewaterhouseCoopers, there were 359 open CEO slots last year of 2,500 global public companies and female executives filled only 10 - between the U.S. and Canada, only one woman filled a CEO Job. Huffington Post
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This sweet video highlights LGBT families talking about what makes a family. BuzzFeedVideo
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Women of color are more likely than any group in America to work for poverty-level wages. This is due to multiple factors, including bias, lack of opportunity, and the confidence gap – all acting as part of the concrete ceiling – the term that more accurately describes the barrier for success that women of color face. Huffington Post
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