By Linda Garcia Barnard, Director of Finance and Administration at Family Values @ Work August 15th, 2023 marks moms Equal Pay Day where full-time, year-round working moms catch up to what dads earned in 2022. According to the AAUW, that breaks down to moms earning 74 cents to every $1 earned by dads and the ratios are even more staggering for part-timers and women of color. For decades, the social justice…

Just a few weeks ago, I represented Family Values @ Work at Women Deliver 2023. This was FV@W’s first time attending this conference, one of the largest gatherings of the movement for gender equity meant to create solidarity and cross-movement collaboration. …

You know what I’m tired of? Every year, I write the same letter to the universe: it’s incomprehensible that women still aren’t equally paid and that must change. And every year, we’re back here, acknowledging how far into the new year a Black woman would have to work to make…

Josephine Kalipeni, Executive Director Tori Bowie was an Olympic gold medalist. When she was found dead on May 2, 2023, she was eight months pregnant. An autopsy found that Tori died from childbirth complications, likely resulting from eclampsia and respiratory distress. Tori is now part of an alarming number. Black…

Family Values @ Work congratulates our partners — Maine Women’s Lobby, Southern Maine Workers Center, and the Maine Paid Leave Coalition — on their hard work building sustained momentum to move their paid family and medical leave (PFML) bill forward. …

By Josie Kalipeni In a flurry of decisions, the Supreme Court decided to continue rolling back protections for the most vulnerable among us as they did with Roe v. Wade last year. …

By Sammy Chavin-Grant Last Wednesday, June 21, I sat with a large cup of coffee, ready to tune into the live stream of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pension (HELP) Committee legislative markup. For the less policy-nerdy reader, let’s start with what a legislative markup is. Once a piece…

By Marie Lindberg I was raised to believe that the only ideal family was the nuclear family — one husband, one wife, 2.5 kids, and the white picket fence. It was promoted explicitly in the churches I attended with my friends and the judgment I heard of single mothers and…

Thirty years ago, Congress passed the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) — which was both groundbreaking for the U.S. at the time and woefully insufficient to meet workers’ health and economic needs. Besides being unpaid, the FMLA also leaves out workers who work for small businesses, need to care…