LAS COMADRES SPEAKER SERIES -- February through April 2022

 

Join us for a new year of great speakers who will inspire and motive us. 

 

Many thanks to Comadre Aileen Roberta Schlef, President of Creative Alliance Communications, who has graciously volunteered to help coordinate the series and find speakers.

  

Mark Your Calendars!

FEBRUARY 23 – Speaker:  Julie Baez Prebula, first and only Latina golf club owner in the U.S.

 

 

 

MARCH 30 – Speaker:  Abigail Golden-Vazquez

Founding Executive Director of the Aspen Institute Latinos & Society Program (AILAS)

 

  

APRIL 27 – Speaker:  Sindy Benavides

CEO, League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)

 

LATINA EQUAL PAY DAY

October 29.  Today is Latina Equal Pay Day, which marks how far into the year the average Latina must work to make what the average white, non-Hispanic man made the previous year, reports Forbes.

On average, Latinas in the US are paid 45% less than white men and 30% less than white women.  This pay gap starts in the teenage years, and widens for educated Latinas.  This gap affects Latinas, their families, their communities, their workplace, and, yes, society at large.

But, take heart!  This is a new decade for women, for Latinas.  Latinas are stepping forward and asking for promotions and raises at similar rates to white men and women.  It’s time to bridge that gap.

Here are some great articles on Latina Equal Pay Day:

Lean In offers wonderful stats on the pay gap by genre, age, education:

https://leanin.org/data-about-the-gender-pay-gap-for-latinas

 

Forbes writes about why closing the wage gap for Latinas is a win for all:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/hollycorbett/2020/10/29/why-closing-the-wage-gap-on-latina-equal-pay-day-is-a-win-for-us-all/#2161952c7530

 

CNBC sheds light on the fact that this pay gap for Latinas has barely moved in 30 years and it overdue:

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/29/latinas-face-an-ongoing-pay-gap-that-has-barely-moved-in-30-years.html

 

 Share with us ways that you feel would bring this wage gap for Latinas.#