Women are leading strikes and walkouts demanding restaurants pay a living wage
After years of being overworked, underpaid and harassed, the women who make up the vast majority of the nation’s restaurant workforce are demanding change.
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3 Cabinet secretaries on how their experiences inform their leadership and pandemic response
Marcia Fudge, Jennifer Granholm and Gina Raimondo said they all had to staff up when they started running their agencies — but that it gave them a chance to diversify.
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Could queer-inclusive sex ed halt trans homicides? Some advocates say yes.
As transgender homicides surge, experts say teaching kids that an attraction to transgender people is OK could curb the crisis.
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Cancer treatments can threaten fertility. Some states are working to help patients preserve it.
A bill in Texas has stalled, but this year Utah joined other states that have tried to make procedures including egg, embryo and sperm freezing more accessible to those getting treatment.
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How expanding vaccine eligibility for kids will impact mothers
The FDA authorized the Pfizer vaccine for those 12 to 15. Experts say that could help moms get back to work.
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Liz Cheney is out of House leadership, and Elise Stefanik waits in the wings
Cheney’s ouster, and her likely replacement by Stefanik, have nothing to do with policy and everything to do with Trump’s false claims about the 2020 election.
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Schools are reopening, but for many reasons Asian American parents remain hesitant
More than 60 percent of Asian American elementary and middle school students continued full-time remote learning in March — compared to only 19 percent of White students.
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Deb Haaland on climate, energy and a new effort to address violence against Native Americans
The interior secretary talked to The 19th about her department’s top priorities and her perspective on natural resources — plus her signature dish.
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With COVID vaccinations, CDC finds older women are being left behind
A new analysis showed that older women, who face significant barriers to access, were less likely than older men to have gotten at least one COVID-19 vaccine.
Amber Briggles’ vocal campaign for trans rights has made her a prime target for harassment. But for her family, the stakes are too high to stay silent.
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Black people constitute 12.4 percent of the population but only 8.6 percent of people who have started the immunization process.
A year from the start of the women’s recession, 2 million women are still out of the workforce
About 165,000 women left the workforce in April as the economic recovery sputters. Unemployment rates continue to be higher for women of color.
Biden promised the most diverse administration ever. Here’s how he’s doing.
Seven figures that show the representation — and the gaps — in President Joe Biden’s Cabinet and federal appointments.
The women’s recession isn’t over — especially for moms
One year since the start of the women’s recession, hundreds of thousands of moms have been forced to leave their jobs — and grapple with the consequences.
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