— A new report from Lean In, released Thursday concurrent with this year’s Black Women’s Equal Pay Day, found that Black women are being promoted at far lower rates than their White male counterparts despite seeking promotions at similar rates.
— Black women are also severely underrepresented in top leadership positions, making up 1.6 percent of vice president roles and 1.4 percent of C-suite positions, despite being 7.4 percent of the U.S. population, according to the report.
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Race —
Meghan, The Duchess of Sussex, to The 19th: “It’s good to be home.”
By Errin Haines
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Meghan, The Duchess of Sussex, spoke to The 19th’s co-founder and CEO, Emily Ramshaw, about the role of gender in media and why Ramshaw started the new nonprofit newsroom earlier this year. (Sipa via AP Images)
“Just devastating.”
That’s how Meghan, The Duchess of Sussex, described returning to America in the midst of a national reckoning on race. But as peaceful protests proliferated after the killing of George Floyd, Meghan found inspiration. Now, she said, “it’s good to be home.”
Meghan’s remarks — made in one of her first sit-down conversations since returning to the United States — were part of an interview for The 19th Represents Summit, a week of virtual conversations with leading women in politics and public policy.
For this conversation, Meghan was in the interviewer’s seat, talking with The 19th’s co-founder and CEO, Emily Ramshaw, about the role of gender in media and why Ramshaw started the new nonprofit newsroom earlier this year. But Meghan did answer a few questions from Ramshaw, reflecting on her lived experiences as a biracial woman and mother coming home to a troubled nation.
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We just wrapped the final day of The 19th Represents, our inaugural summit! Thank you to the thousands of people who joined us throughout the week.
If you weren't able to join us or are interested in watching the conversations again, you can find all event recordings here.
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Want to support Black students? Invest in Black teachers. Research shows that Black students who learn from even just one Black teacher in elementary school are more likely to graduate high school and consider college. Students of color report feeling like they are held to higher standards and shown more cultural sensitivity when taught by teachers of the same race. Still, the number of Black instructors continues to decline. (TIME, August 11)
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The women battling wildfires and breaking barriers in the American wilderness. Women are extinguishing the gender gap in wildland firefighting. Although women still make up only 12 percent of the field, more than 10,000 women from across the country gather each summer to defend national forests and make the profession more accessible than before. The men who work alongside them also see the female presence as indispensable, noting they bring a much-needed big-picture perspective to each task. (National Geographic, August 13)
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The women the 19th Amendment left behind. The young women fighting voter disenfranchisement in 2020 remind us that suffragists are not just historical figures of a pre-19th Amendment world. Today they continue to fight the limitations of voting laws that still exclude the most vulnerable members of society from democracy — and discuss the limitations of voting itself. (Teen Vogue, August 11)
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🎧 Listen: The women who still can’t vote. Hundreds of thousands of women have lost the right to vote due to criminal convictions. Some are turned away from the polls for registering with their spouse’s last name without changing it on their driver’s license. Others lose access because they work or care for their families during the hours polling places are open. All in all, millions of women find themselves disenfranchised in every election. (The Politics of Everything via The New Republic, August 12)
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📺 Watch: Once called 'delusional' for running, female politicians say a woman VP is overdue. Today we see more women in politics than ever before — but they still face much of the same sexism and unfair scrutiny that has followed women politicians for decades. Women like Patricia Schroder, who ran for president in 1987, and Carol Moseley-Braun, the only woman to run for president in 2004, discuss their experiences. (Washington Post, August 11)
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