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Newsweek: Women Are Carrying This Country Through Crisis After Crisis. We Need Paid Leave Now | Opinion

5/31/2022

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Excerpt: “We are one of the only countries in the world with no form of paid leave. We invest less in child care than nearly every OECD nation. We rank 71 in women's political representation. We have one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the developed world, one that continues to rise, and until recently we did not even officially count maternal deaths. The gender wage gap and motherhood penalty barely budge. Gender-based harassment and assault remain commonplace and often unchecked. The rape kit backlog is an abomination, and out of 1,000 sexual assaults in the United States, 975 perpetrators will walk free.” Read here.

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