Archive: WILL Empower
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Intersectionality and Women’s Voting Rights Over the Past Century (Video)
The Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor at Georgetown University, the National Parks Service, and WILL Empower co-sponsored the webinar “Gender, Race, Class, and the Vote: From the 19th Amendment to COVID-19” to discuss how race and class have shaped womens’ ability to vote over the past century. This June 23 panel was moderated by Lane Windham, Associate Director of the Kalmanovitz Initiative and co-director of WILL Empower.
Categories: Events, Women Innovating Labor Leadership
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WCP: COVID-19 Is a Perfect Storm for Women Workers
Women have long held the most precarious jobs, made less money than men, and done most of the paid and unpaid caregiving. As Lane Windham writes in this week’s Working-Class Perspectives, the coronavirus exacerbates these inequalities. While men appear to have a greater chance of dying from COVID-19, the underlying condition of gender inequality makes women particularly vulnerable to economic disaster in the months and years to come.
Category: Uncategorized
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Apply for the 2019 KI Summer Organizing or Research in Action Internship!
KI is now accepting applications for its paid, full-time 8-week internship for Summer 2019 open to Georgetown students. Each summer, KI recruits Georgetown students who are dedicated to social justic
Categories: Organizing Internship, Research in Action Internship
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Lane Windham, KI Associate Director, Receives Prestigious Labor History Award
KI Associate Director Lane Windham has been awarded the prestigious 2018 David Montgomery Award from the Organization of American Historians (OAH) at its annual meeting in Sacramento, California. The
Categories: In the News, Our Staff, People, Women Innovating Labor Leadership
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Heather Booth Film Leaves GU Inspired and Hopeful
A screening last week of Heather Booth: Changing the World left a crowd of students, faculty, and community members stirred to action, and more committed than ever to working for social justice. H
Category: Women Innovating Labor Leadership
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Worker Organizing Roundtable features Lane Windham’s Knocking on Labor’s Door
How can working people build power today when organizing a union is so difficult? That question was at the heart of a KI roundtable discussion on strategic twenty-first century worker organizing with AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer Elissa McBride, Jobs with Justice Organizing Director Erica Smiley, and KI Associate Director Lane Windham.
Categories: Events, Our Staff, Women Innovating Labor Leadership
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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
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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