Work is vital to a woman’s financial independence, socio-economic advancement and personal dignity. Women have the right to equal opportunity and equal pay in all aspects of employment. Currently, women earn just 76% of men’s average wages, even though they work longer hours (factoring in non-compensated domestic work).
We support:
- Equal pay for equal work policies;
- Initiatives to ensure safe, healthy, and secure working conditions, and abolishment of “sweatshop” labor practices;
- A living wage;
- Comprehensive, affordable and quality health-care benefits and retirement plans that meet the needs of working women and their families;
- Expansion of current medical and family care leave benefits, including granting additional leave time, allowing the use of paid leave benefits, and expanding the definition of family;
- Efforts to mitigate financial penalties to women who leave the workforce to care for children or elderly relatives;
- Equal opportunity and access in leadership development, workplace recruitment, hiring, training and promotion of employees, as well as the fulfillment of affirmative action goals;
- Initiatives that encourage and assist women entrepreneurs;
- Policies such as flexible hours, telecommuting, job-sharing, day care support and other which allow women and their families to participate fully in the workplace and home lives;
- Training of all employees and effective enforcement against sexual harassment at work;
- Inclusion of domestic partners as qualified dependents to existing employer-sponsored benefit programs, and allowance for their full coverage;
- Legislation that prohibits the dismissal of workers on the basis of sexual orientation.
