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Jessica Grose: On the Unsustainability of Parenting

Opinion writer and author Jessica Grose discusses the complicated subject of modern motherhood in her new nonfiction book, Screaming on the Inside.

'A spontaneous loss of enthusiasm': workplace feminism and the transformation of women's service jobs in the 1970s

An analysis of the gendered dynamics in the class struggle in the 1970s US service sector.

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Pope Francis agrees: Equal pay for women is long (long) overdue

Editor s Note: The Moral Economy is a new series that tackles key economic topics through the prism of Catholic social teaching and its care for the dignity of every person. This is the seventh article in the series. The gender pay gap, persistent and global, is an evident structural economic injustice and despite widespread agreement that it deserves immediate remedy, it is proving annoyingly difficult to solve. For almost 60 years, since President John F. Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act in 1963, it has been illegal in the United States to pay men more than women for doing the same job. And yet in 2020, women earned 82.3 percent of what men did in all jobs combined. Put another way: In the United States, women, who make up about half of the population, earn only 40 percent of the gross domestic product. And in the last 25 years, the gender pay gap in the United States has shrunk only eight percentage points.

A Century Later, Garment Workers Still Face the Unfair Labor Conditions That Sparked International Women's Day

A Century Later, Garment Workers Still Face the Unfair Labor Conditions That Sparked International Women’s Day Chelsey Sanchez © Art by Ingrid Frahm Over a century ago, striking garment workers inspired International Women s Day. Today, L.A. garment workers are still facing the same problems. On a November evening in 1909, hundreds of shirtwaist workers, many of whom were Jewish immigrants, packed the Great Hall of New York City’s Cooper Union. Local 25 of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union had organized a meeting that night to discuss the possibility of an industry-wide strike, a practice that was still illegal at the time.