321ACTION: Codify "Roe", Gun Reform, Occupational Segregation, #FinancialLiteracyMonth
Ready to make a difference?
Here are three ways to get started:
1. Ensure equal access to abortion
The Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA) was just introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives. This federal legislation is necessary to ensure every woman has access to a full range of reproductive healthcare options, including abortion.
WHPA would create a statutory right for healthcare providers to provide abortion care, and a right for their patients to receive that care. Email your Representative and demand they support WHPA!
Urge your federal elected officials to support WHPA
2. Demand gun reform
Enough is Enough. Congress must take comprehensive actions to reduce the gun violence that has infiltrated into every community and into every space we occupy.
The vast majority of Americans believe that violent people shouldn’t be able to access firearms, every person who purchases a gun should have to pass a background check, and that assault style rifles don’t belong in our communities.
We need to keep the pressure up on the members of Congress who support these proposals, and make sure those who don’t believe in common sense gun reform hear our voices.
Demand your elected officials support policies that will save lives
3. Learn more: the systemic undervaluingof women's work
Occupational segregation is real. Women make up just 30% of the top 20 occupations with the highest pay and make up 64% of the lowest-paying occupations.
Learn more about the ways racism and sexism keep women out of high-paying jobs and in lower waged women-dominated jobs by reading a newly released report by our coalition partners at the National Partnership for Women and Families, “Women’s Work is Undervalued, and It’s Costing us Billions.”
Read the report: "Women's Work is Undervalued, and It's Costing Us Billions"
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Empower yourself and support survivors of domestic abuse this Financial Literacy Month
Celebrate Financial Literacy Month with JWI this April by building financial freedom and independence for yourself, your loved ones, and survivors of domestic abuse.