Immigrant Women Workers

Bernice Yeung’s In A Day’s Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against American’s Most Vulnerable Workers exposes the underbelly of economies filled with employers who take advantage of immigrant women’s need to earn a basic living. When these women find the courage to speak up, Yeung reveals, they are too often met by apathetic bosses and underresourced government agencies. But In a Day’s Work also tells a story of resistance, introducing a group of courageous allies who challenge dangerous and discriminatory workplace conditions alongside aggrieved workers—and win. Moving and inspiring, this book will change our understanding of the lives of immigrant women.

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20 States by 2020 Campaign

On the one-year anniversary of #MeToo going viral, nearly 300 organizations came together to call for strengthened protections against sexual harassment and violence at work, in schools, homes, and communities—demanding concrete advances in “20 states by 2020.” Led by Girls for Gender Equity, the campaign is progressing in the state. The National Women’s Law Center published a report on this in July of 2019: Progress in Advancing Me Too Workplace Reforms in #20StatesBy2020.

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New Rules Summit

Hosted by the New York Times and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists at the forefront of the gender and equality conversation, the New Rules Summit , held June 12-13 in Brooklyn, New York, “called on diverse leaders from across business, politics and culture to create a boldly inclusive vision of the workplace— and transform it into reality.”

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Sexual Harassment in the Restaurant Industry (2014)

Restaurant Opportunities Centers and Forward Together, The Glass Floor: Sexual Harassment in the Restaurant Industry (2014)

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By looking at the rate and types of sexual harassment experienced by current and former restaurant workers through national surveys and rigorous analysis, the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United and Forward Together provide the most accurate picture to date of sexual harassment in the restaurant industry in The Glass Floor: Sexual Harassment in the Restaurant Industry.

Frontline Special: Rape in the Fields (2013)

PBS Frontline: Rape in the Fields (2013)

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FRONTLINE and Univision partner to tell the story of the hidden price many migrant women working in America’s fields and packing plants pay to stay employed and provide for their families. This investigation is the result of a yearlong reporting effort by veteran FRONTLINE correspondent Lowell Bergman, the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley, and the Center for Investigative Reporting.