By Noreen Farrell, Executive Director, Equal Rights Advocates Today, on National Women and Girls in Sports Day, we have a lot to celebrate as we head into the 2022 Winter Olympics and mark the 50th Anniversary of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. This seminal law’s prohibition against…

By Noreen Farrell, Executive Director, Equal Rights Advocates Less than one month into 2022, and Congress already broke its new year’s resolution. They said they were resolved to do better by American families, to lift us out of the economic trenches they themselves dug with their negligent response to the…

Equal Rights Advocates’ Sept. 23 Virtual Gala theme was “The Future Is ….” and I was moved and energized by the hopes and dreams many of our supporters shared. As one supporter said, the Future is Now. So rather than waiting for Washington D.C. stalemates to break, join us October…

By Noreen Farrell, Executive Director, Equal Rights Advocates I’ve been thinking a lot about the definition of family. With Moms’ Equal Pay Day yesterday, Mother’s Day this weekend, and the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act making waves in Congress, there are so many ways we can advocate for parents and caretakers…

By Noreen Farrell, Executive Director, Equal Rights Advocates As vaccines become widely accessible, air travel is picking back up. But like 76% of low-income people who have been deemed essential workers — 60% of whom are women — airport security employees never had the luxury of working from home. That’s…

By Noreen Farrell, Executive Director, Equal Rights Advocates I am not going to sugar coat it. If we do not act now, COVID-19 may well decimate our chance to close the gender and race pay gap harming most working women. Any interruption in a worker’s career trajectory can have devastating effects on their earnings. Soak that in as…

By Noreen Farrell, Executive Director, Equal Rights Advocates In just one day, the Biden-Harris Administration already made progress on many of the crises currently devastating our nation, with executive actions restoring protections for LGLBTQI+ workers, requiring pandemic safety, protecting Dreamers, lifting the Muslim travel ban, reinstating federal DEI trainings, and…

By Noreen Farrell, Executive Director, Equal Rights Advocates Equal Rights Advocates joins the nation celebrating incredible Election 2020 progress for our shared values, including equal opportunity for those underrepresented among our electeds. Congratulations especially to Vice President-Elect Senator Kamala Harris, who makes history by becoming the first woman, the first…

By Noreen Farrell, Executive Director, Equal Rights Advocates On days like this, political winds feel determinative. They affect the pace of our progress toward justice and equality. They can fan flames of hate and oppression and threaten immediate relief for millions in crisis across the nation. In an excruciatingly close…