Archive: Feminism

• WCP: Working-Class Women Unionists on the Front Lines

  Working-class women are becoming the face of the labor movement in Australia and inspiring unions to fight for feminist issues. In this week’s Working-Class Perspective, Sarah Attfield profiles three women unionists at the helm of the worker struggle in Australia.

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Australia, Equal Pay, Feminism, John Russo, Sally McNamus, Sarah Attfield, Sherry Linkon, WCP, Women, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: Women Hold the Keys to New Working-Class Prosperity

  Pundits use ‘working class’ as a shorthand for white blue-collar men, but the American worker today is just as likely to be a woman of color in the service or healthcare industry. In this week’s Working-Class Perspective, Lane Windham makes the case for promoting women’s leadership in the labor movement and introduces an ambitious project seeking to do just that.

  Categories: Visiting Scholars, Women Innovating Labor Leadership Tags: CIWO, Economic Justice, Feminism, Georgetown, John Russo, KI, Lane Windham, Rutgers, Scheduling, Sherry Linkon, WCP, WILL Empower, Women, Women Innovating Labor Leadership, Working-Class Perspectives

• Kalmanovitz Initiative to Help Build New Generation of Women’s Labor Leadership

  Georgetown’s Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor will identify, nurture, train and convene a new generation of diverse, female labor leaders in a collaborative effort with Rutgers

  Category: Our Staff Tags: AFL-CIO, Berger-Marks Foundation, Center for Innovation in Worker Organization, Feminism, Georgetown University, Grants, Immigration, Joseph McCartin, Kalmanovitz Initiative, Labor Movement, Lane Windham, Linda Foley, Liz Shuler, Marilyn Sneiderman, Racial Justice, Rutgers University, Sheri Davis-Faulkner, WILL Empower, Women, Women's Leadership, Worker Justice