Americans should all stand and cheer for our U.S. Women’s Soccer Team, now four-time World Cup champions. After their latest championship victory, the crowd even broke out into chants of “Equal pay!” in support of the team’s wage-discrimination lawsuit against their employer, the U.S. Soccer Federation, and for their broader...
Mixed Feelings in Supreme Court Ruling in Fresno Equal Pay Case
The attorney who won a landmark equal pay case for a Fresno woman calls the latest Supreme Court ruling a “minor setback.” The high court ruled on Monday that the case of Aileen Rizo, a math consultant with the Fresno County Office of Education, should head back to the Ninth...
Schools Chief Yovino Wins Round at Supreme Court in Equal Pay Case
WASHINGTON — Fresno County Superintendent of Schools Jim Yovino won a round in the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday in an equal pay case brought by a former math consultant. The Court unanimously threw out a lower court ruling in favor of Aileen Rizo, who sued in 2014 when she...
Fresno Unified Has Attendance Problem … On Bond Oversight Committee
Voters in Fresno Unified have entrusted the school board with more than a half-billion dollars in bond money. Measure Q passed in 2010 for $280 million. Measure X passed in 2016 for $225 million. Both bonds have an oversight board to make sure the construction funds are spent appropriately. The...
International Women's Day: Few Women Oversee U.S. Companies. Here's How to Change That.
Women’s participation in the labor force has soared over the past 50 years, rising from 32 percent in 1948 to 56.7 percent as of January. Yet those gains have not translated into the U.S. corporate boardroom, where women held just 16.6 percent of seats in 2015, according to a Credit...