— During the Republican National Convention, the high-ranking women in Donald Trump’s White House tried to make the case for the president’s commitment to gender equality. The rhetoric, however, belies the reality in the Trump White House, particularly when it comes to the gender pay gap, a key measure of gender parity.
— An analysis by The 19th of the 2020 median salaries in the Trump White House found a $33,300 chasm between the median salary for male staffers ($106,000) and the median salary for female staffers ($72,700).
— That means women make nearly 69 cents on the male $1 — worse than the national gender pay gap of 82 cents on the dollar.
Read the full story by Chabeli Carrazana here.
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Sarah McBride poised to become the nation’s first openly transgender state senator
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Sarah McBride is poised to become the nation's first openly trans state senator. (Paul Sancya/AP Photos)
Sarah McBride made it a point to vote in person during Tuesday’s primary in Delaware. This particular trip to the polls was special: the 30-year-old voted for herself.
“I’ve never voted for someone like me before,” McBride said.
McBride overwhelmingly won a two-person Democratic primary for a state senate seat. And the makeup of her district, with its large base of registered Democratic voters, all but assures that McBride will win the seat in November, making her the nation’s first openly transgender state senator.
McBride ran a campaign focused on issues like health care, infrastructure and schools. But she recognizes the historic nature of her win.
“One thing that I do think about is that in Delaware or North Carolina, or in Texas or Montana, there will be a trans kid who wakes up on Wednesday and … sees that the sky’s the limit for them,” she said. “That their dreams and their identities are not mutually exclusive.”
McBride is part of a surge of transgender candidates this election cycle. At least 16 trans candidates are running for statehouse seats in 2020, according to a tally by the LGBTQ Victory Fund, an organization that works to increase the number of openly LGBTQ+ candidates in office.
Read the full story here.
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Donald Trump accused of sexual assault by former model Amy Dorris. Amy Dorris alleges Trump forced his tongue down her throat and groped her at 1997 US Open. (The Guardian, September 17)
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Black girls with disabilities are disproportionately criminalized. This op-ed authored by Rep. Ayanna Pressley and researchers explores how Black girls are targeted at school because of their disabilities, along with their race and gender. (Teen Vogue, September 17)
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Support for Black Lives Matter has decreased since June but remains strong among Black Americans. 55 percent of U.S. adults now express at least some support for the Black Lives Matter movement, down from 67 percent in June. (Pew Research Center, September 16)
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🎧 Listen: America's other Constitution. Residents of the United States all live under the U.S. Constitution, but every state also has its own. Four women state Supreme Court justices discuss how these written documents can vary rather significantly from state to state. (Lady Justice: Women of the court, September 17)
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📺 Watch: “It’s just girls being girls”: Inside Rocks, a new type of coming-of-age film. Director Sarah Gavron, writers Theresa Ikoko and Claire Wilson, and actors Bukky Bakray and Kosar Ali on how they made a story of contemporary sisterhood. (New Statesmen, September 17)
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