Action for Equity's Blog

When a person becomes a parent (or we learn that an acquaintance is a parent), one of the very first questions we typically ask is whether the child is a girl or a boy.  In fact, when we become parents, we are accustomed to spreading “It’s a boy!” or “It’s a girl!” to announce the [...]

What would it mean if there weren’t a $10,622 wage gap? For some, eliminating the wage gap would mean the difference between a living wage and living in poverty.  The highest poverty rates are for families headed by single women, especially if they are women of color.  That means a lot of children are growing [...]

A friend of mine recently wrote on her Facebook page:  “Dear boy scout leaders, priests, teachers, coaches, dentists, and any other occupations pedophiles hide behind . . . stop raping our kids.”  There certainly are enough examples of people not only taking advantage of their positions (in all variety of ways) but actually engaging in [...]