Monday you can fall apart
….and you might, because Supreme Court decisions, 10am ET, and they still have 87 decisions to release. “Will this Supreme Court term ever end?” Lol no.
It’s already after 9am and I told this one we’d mark National Waffle Iron Day this morning, so gotta run!
This week is going to be action-packed, so now’s an especially good time to share with your folks.
Abortion
My Reproductive Freedom Has Been Critical to My Life Choices
Sarah B. Hechtman | Ms. Magazine
I am grateful every day for my good fortune, and recognize the role that the ability to self-determine—unavailable to so many people—played in bringing my vision for my family to fruition.
My Abortion Saved My Life. However the Supreme Court Rules, Help Is There
Nikiya Natale | Newsweek
From helping people pay for their procedures to providing transportation to get to their appointment, abortion funds serve as a critical resource for their communities. Abortion funds were there for me when I needed them, and we'll continue to be there for years to come, no matter how the Supreme Court rules in the next few days, so everyone can access essential, life-saving health care without political interference.
Missouri
After yearlong fight, Missouri's lone abortion clinic gets its license renewed
Austin Huguelet | USA Today
Missouri's lone abortion clinic got its abortion license renewed by the state this week after a yearlong fight with health authorities. The state's decision means the Planned Parenthood in St. Louis' Central West End will be able to operate through at least 2021 absent further challenges.
LGBTQ
Trump's foreign aid office is under fire for anti-LGBTQ appointees
Casey Quinlan, Josh Israel | The American Independent
Staffers at the U.S. Agency for International Development are reportedly upset about the recent appointment of three anti-LGBTQ Trump loyalists, which they say has created a hostile work environment.
How Many Companies With Pride Campaigns Donate To LGBTQ Causes?
Alice Broster | Bustle
A 2019 study by the marketing experts at Reboot Online looked into 122 companies to see how much LGBTQ marketing they were doing, and revealed that only 64% of companies doing a Pride campaign donated to an LGBTQ cause.
Supreme Court’s DACA, LGBTQ Discrimination Rulings Find Bipartisan Support, Poll Suggests
Alison Durkee | Forbes
An Economist/YouGov poll suggests the Supreme Court’s recent rulings supporting DACA and barring workplace discrimination against LGBTQ employees have made the high court more popular among Americans, with support for the Supreme Court rising from 42% to 48% and a majority of respondents from both political parties approving of the court.
Meet The Forgotten Woman Who Forever Changed The Lives Of LGBTQ+ Workers
Leah Rosenbaum, Brianne Garrett | Forbes
As a civil rights activist, feminist and attorney, Pauli Murray influenced Martin Luther King, Eleanor Roosevelt and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. And with a single word in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, she bent the arc of the moral universe.
LGBTQ Rights: There’s a Lot More Work to Do
Genie Harrison | Ms. Magazine
The good news is that if your company has more than 15 employees, isn’t associated with a conservative religious group, and doesn’t already have a nondiscrimination policy for its LGBTQ workers, it’s going to need one right away. But this is just a start. Next we need to look outside of the workplace, at all the other areas of our lives—including education, health care and housing.
🠲 Could the Supreme Court’s Landmark L.G.B.T.-Rights Decision Help Lead to the Dismantling of Affirmative Action?
Jeannie Suk Gersen | The New Yorker
The decision protecting gay and transgender individuals from discrimination may have laid the groundwork for a textualist case against race-conscious school-admissions policies.
Black Trans Women Seek More Space in the Movement They Helped Start
Isabella Grullón Paz, Maggie Astor | New York Times
At no point have black trans people shared fully in the gains of the L.G.B.T.Q. or racial justice movements. This may be changing.
Perceptions differ on how the LGBTQ+ community fare in the workplace
Esther Shein | TechRepublic
Despite the growing business case for inclusion, that has not translated into solid gains within the workplace, a new survey and report find.
Curve Magazine | Nondiscrimination Against LGBT Individuals Isn't Just The Law – It Helps Organizations Succeed
Supreme Court LGBTQ Ruling Could Help Lawsuits Against Military's Transgender Ban
Stephanie Colombini | WUSF Public Media
Groups challenging the military’s ban on transgender service are encouraged by a recent Supreme Court decision that protects many LGBTQ employees from discrimination. The ruling doesn’t directly affect the ban, but it could support lawsuits against it.
Indiana
Taxpayer funded Catholic schools given secret edict to ban kids who don’t conform to gender norms
Bil Browning | LGBTQ Nation
The Archdiocese of Indianapolis is one of the most viciously anti-LGBTQ in the nation, and new leaked internal documents show that its using its Catholic school system to actively harm gender-nonconforming youth.
The Advocate | Catholic Archdiocese Tells Schools to Reject Openly Trans Students
Metro Weekly | Indianapolis Archdiocese's new policy would ban transgender children from parochial schools
Michigan
LGBTQ workforce makes gains, but transgender discrimination remains pervasive
Annalise Frank | Crain's Detroit Business
Transgender visibility, understanding has increased in recent years, but trans people are still mistreated at work. Unemployment rate for trans people in Michigan was 19% in 2015 compared to overall rate of 5.4%.
New York
New York poised to send first openly gay black members to Congress
Sarah Ewall-Wice, Aaron Navarro | CBS
Absentee ballots are still being counted from New York's primary Tuesday, but two leading candidates appear to be on the cusp of making history as the first openly gay black members of Congress.
The American Independent | Congress likely to get its first openly gay Black members
Despite Police Confrontation, the Queer Liberation March Was a Powerful and Peaceful Call for Justice
Naveen Kumar | The Daily Beast
Thousands of protesters flooded the streets for the Queer Liberation March for Black Lives and Against Police Brutality. Late afternoon reports on social media showed disturbing moments of confrontation after a largely peaceful march, with the police pushing through crowds of protesters and appearing to detain multiple people.
17 corrections officers to be charged in trans woman's death at Rikers Island jail
Alicia Lozano | NBC News
Layleen Xtravaganza Cubilette-Polanco died last June while in solitary confinement, where she had been placed over the objections of at least one doctor.
Texas
Mansfield ISD board rejects specific LGBTQ protections
David Taffet | Dallas Voice
The school district voted not to include gender identity and sexual orientation in its nondiscrimination policies, despite SCOTUS’ ‘Bostock’ decision
Virginia
Laws expanding LGBTQ+ protections to go into effect
CBS19 Charlottesville
New laws expanding rights and protections for LGBTQ+ individuals are going into effect next week.
Pregnancy & Parenting
Pregnancy and COVID-19: Women Are Postponing Their Fertility Plans Due to the Pandemic
Macaela Mackenzie | Glamour
According to new survey data—one third of women in the U.S. are postponing pregnancy or plan to have fewer children due to COVID-19. The findings come from the first comprehensive study of women’s pregnancy preferences in the pandemic.
Most Maternal Health Studies Focus On Babies. Mom's Needs Come Last.
Jeanne Faulkner | Romper
Healthcare’s priority is to prevent transmission, and rightly so, but as often happens in maternal health settings, the question of what’s best for mothers is an afterthought.
No childcare, big problem
Elizabeth Ralph | POLITICO
We worried this would happen: A persistent lack of childcare due to the coronavirus pandemic is keeping women from going back to work. This is bad for the economy. And it also risks rolling back the workplace gains women have made over the past decade.
Reproductive Health & Justice
Overturning 'Obamacare' during a pandemic
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar | AP
The decade-old health care law that has divided Americans even as it expanded coverage and protected people with preexisting conditions is being put to yet another test.
NBC News | Trump administration asks Supreme Court to strike down Obamacare amid pandemic, recession
New York Times | What Texas Would Look Like Without Obamacare
A Sex Educator Explains The Sexist History Of Vaginal Douching
Emma McGowan | Bustle
Once firmly the provenance of the “women’s hygiene” aisle at the drugstore, the term douching now covers two body parts: the vagina and the butt. By itself, “douche” is just the French word for “shower,” but when we’re talking about vaginal and anal douching, there’s a lot more involved.
Planned Parenthood Work To Extend Birth Control Access With Businesses
Alice Broster | Forbes
Planned Parenthood is extending birth control access with businesses through their Business For Birth Control 2020 campaign. … They’re working with 12 national companies who are affirming their employees’ birth control coverage as an essential part of their health insurance plans and urging more companies to do the same.
Using tear gas on protesters perpetuates patterns of reproductive harm
Goleen Samari, Dhruvi Chauhan, Paula Kibuka Musoke | The Hill
Exposure to tear gas can affect people’s ability to have children — every advocate for reproductive rights, women’s health, and families should be speaking up.
Wyoming
County Cuts To Gillette Reproductive Health Clinic Could Cost Patients
Catherine Wheeler | Wyoming Public Radio
Campbell County commissioners did not approve the clinic's $35,000 funding request after three of the five commissioners indicated they did not want to fund the clinic with county tax dollars.
Washington
As Planned Parenthood says demonstrations break noise rule, Spokane police say they haven’t found violations
Adam Shanks | Spokesman-Review
Spokane PD said it was at the scene of the monthly demonstration with city code enforcement officers and found no violations of city and state laws regarding noise. It was yet another demonstration that left Planned Parenthood administrators frustrated.
Work & Money
States Should Ban Employers From Asking About Salary History
Noah Smith | Bloomberg Opinion
Race and gender discrimination boost the wages of White men relative to their peers. If employers use salary history to determine future salary, those increases last a lot longer than they otherwise would; even if discrimination declines, the dead hand of past unfairness can exert power over workers’ careers long into the future.
On Instagram, Ban.do Looked Like A Millennial Woman’s Paradise. In Reality, Employees Say They Were Miserable.
Stephanie McNeal | BuzzFeed News
Current and former employees told BuzzFeed News about alleged racist and toxic behavior at the fun, lighthearted stationary, accessories, and clothing company, in contrast to the image the company carefully curated on Instagram.
Trump Had Four Years To Fill 93 US Attorney Spots. Seven Are Women And Only Two Are Black.
Zoe Tillman | BuzzFeed News
The fight over Geoffrey Berman’s seat underscores the Trump administration’s practice of overwhelmingly placing white men in charge of federal prosecutor offices.
NOW Board Members: We’re Being Punished for Blowing the Whistle on Racism
Emily Shugerman | The Daily Beast
Two NOW board members say the group is retaliating against them and seven others for speaking up about racism within the iconic organization.
Planned Parenthood Names Alexis McGill Johnson As Its New President
Laura Bassett | The Daily Beast
Planned Parenthood announced Friday that its new permanent president and CEO is Alexis McGill Johnson, the renowned civil rights and social justice activist who’s been acting as interim president since the organization fired its former leader, Leana Wen, in 2019.
Bustle | “I Am Horrified & I Am Energized”: How Planned Parenthood’s President Is Responding To 2020
NPR | Planned Parenthood Elevates Interim CEO Alexis McGill Johnson To Permanent Status
The Root | Planned Parenthood Officially Names Alexis McGill Johnson Its Permanent President
Acknowledging Gender Bias Is Crucial To Defeating It, New Study
Andrea Morris | Forbes
A new study out today looks at veterinary medicine, a profession long dominated by women, to see if workplace gender bias still hits women in the paycheck. The results confirm that unacknowledged implicit bias is a key driver of gender pay disparity even in fields that hire more women. However, those who acknowledge that gender bias still exists are more likely to compensated women fairly.
Will the Pandemic Reshape Notions of Female Leadership?
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Avivah Wittenberg-Cox | Harvard Business Review
Countries with women in leadership have suffered six times fewer confirmed deaths from Covid-19 than countries with governments led by men. Unsurprisingly, the media has swelled with stories of their pragmatism, prowess — and humanity. Will these positive outcomes influence our collective readiness to elect and promote more women into power?
How Coronavirus Could Widen The Gender Wage Gap
Danielle Kurtzleben | NPR
The challenge of juggling work and raising kids has only increased during the pandemic, according to Claudia Goldin, professor of economics at Harvard. "We have some information that shows, surprise, surprise, the workload of parents has increased astronomically," she said. But, Goldin says, the workload has grown more for moms.
Cleveland.com | What does the coronavirus pandemic mean for women in the workforce?
The Conversation | As lockdown ends, women executives are also at the end of their rope
Going On the Record to Fight for Gender Equality
Maggie May | Philanthropy Women
With COVID-19 dominating news feeds, it’s more important than ever before to keep our attention on movements like #MeToo and the fight for gender equality.
To actually eliminate racism at work we need to recode the workplace
Jessica Weisz | The Startup
Unless managers change the workplace code – the policies, processes and norms – racism will persist.
Georgia
Legislature abandons paid family leave proposal
Tamar Hallerman | Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A first-of-its-kind proposal to extend three weeks of paid family leave benefits to state employees failed in the General Assembly on Friday.
Michigan
Racial Wage Gap larger in Great Lakes Region and largest in Michigan
Russ White | WKAR-TV (East Lansing, MI)
In much of the U.S., the earnings of African American workers have fallen relative to the earnings of white workers since the late 1970s and early 1980s, according to a new study. The relative losses have been larger in the Great Lakes region than in any other region in the U.S., and larger in Michigan than in any other state.
Vermont
OpEd: Vermont should use the pandemic to reshape child care and women’s work for good
Meg Smith, Cary Brown, Rhoni Basden, Jessica Nordhaus, Aly Richards, Dr. Katie Wells, Dr. Anne Dougherty | Vermont Business Magazine
The closures of two high-quality academic child care centers in Chittenden County are canaries in the coal mine. The pandemic is pushing an industry that was already operating on razor thin margins over the edge.
Washington, DC
Paid Family Leave Will Start In DC On July 1
Rachel Sadon, Colleen Grablick | DCist
Paid family and medical leave has crossed its final hurdle in the District. The city’s chief financial officer has certified that the program, which would give employees of D.C. businesses up to eight weeks of paid parental leave, has enough funding to move forward on July 1.
More, More, More
Survey of public shows lack of knowledge about Title IX changes
Greta Anderson | Inside Higher Ed
A majority of Americans surveyed have no knowledge of upcoming changes to how colleges must respond to sexual misconduct on campus, according to a new poll.
War on Women Report: Trump’s Xenophobic, Transphobic and Sexist Legacy
Jenna Ashendouek, Marissa Talcott | Ms. Magazine
The War on Women is in full force under the Trump administration. We refuse to go back, and we refuse to let the administration quietly dismantle the progress we’ve made. We are watching.
As The Country Reexamines Statues And Symbols, The VA Resists A Gender-Neutral Motto
Quil Lawrence | NPR
Some veterans would like to change the gender-exclusive motto of the Department of Veterans Affairs. But the VA is doubling down, and planning to put additional plaques at 140 national cemeteries, bearing the line from Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural address that is its motto: "...To care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow, and his orphan."