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NAACP
NAACP is leading the fight for justice.
From police brutality to COVID-19 to voter suppression, Black communities are under attack. We work to disrupt inequality, dismantle racism, and accelerate change in key areas including criminal justice, health care, education, climate, and the economy.
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NAACP
When it comes to civil rights and social justice, we have the unique ability to secure more wins than anyone else. Help make racial equity a reality.
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NOW (National Organization for Women)
As the grassroots arm of the women’s movement, the National Organization for Women is dedicated to
its multi-issue and multi-strategy approach to women’s rights, and is the largest organization of feminist
grassroots activists in the United States. NOW has hundreds of chapters and hundreds of thousands of
members and activists in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
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NOW (National Organization for Women)
Since our founding in 1966, NOW’s
purpose is to take action through intersectional grassroots activism to promote feminist ideals, lead
societal change, eliminate discrimination, and achieve and protect the equal rights of all women and girls
in all aspects of social, political, and economic life.
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Geena Davis Institute on Gender and Media
Founded by Academy-Award® winning actor and advocate Geena Davis in 2004, The Institute
is the first research-based organization working within the media and entertainment industry to
engage, educate, and influence content creators, marketers and audiences about the importance
of eliminating unconditional bias, highlighting gender balance,
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Geena Davis Institute on Gender and Media
challenging stereotypes, creating
role models and scripting a wide variety of strong female characters in entertainment and media
that targets and influences children ages 11 and under. The Institute is also the only organization
employing the GD-IQ tool to create systemic change in entertainment media content creation.
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NCNW (National Council of Negro Women)
NCNW’s mission is to lead, develop, and advocate for women of African descent as they support
their families and communities.
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NCNW (National Council of Negro Women)
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Major Companies With Equal Pay
Launched in 2019 as part of the First Partner and CCSWG’s #EqualPayCA initiative, the Equal Pay Pledge invites California employers to conduct an annual company-wide gender pay analysis...
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Major Companies With Equal Pay
review hiring promotion processes and procedures to reduce bias and structural barriers; and promote best practices that will close the pay gap to ensure equity for all workers.
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FairPlay Workplace
Fair Pay Workplace certification takes a holistic approach to pay equity. We evaluate your current pay scales, systems, and infrastructure to discover root causes and then partner with you to design an annual pay equity action plan to effect meaningful, measurable change.
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FairPlay Workplace
Fair Pay Workplace certification takes a holistic approach to pay equity. We evaluate your current pay scales, systems, and infrastructure to discover root causes and then partner with you to design an annual pay equity action plan to effect meaningful, measurable change.
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California Woman Lead
California Women Lead is about the astonishing power of community and the difference women
can make it. It's also not just about gender parity at our local and state offices, but having
California’s decision-making boards and commissions reflective of California communities, so that all Californians truly feel that they
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California Woman Lead
are represented and their issues addressed. In that, the
members of California Women Lead represent a wide variety of ages, professional backgrounds
and geographical areas and California Women Lead continues to make a difference for women
across the state and provide them with the inspiration to be the leaders we know they have the
potential to become.
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Women In Defense
Women In Defense (WID) engages, cultivates and supports the advancement and recognition of women in all aspects of national security. Incorporated in 1985, this empowerment organization provides women a business environment for professional growth through strategic networking, education, and career development.
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Women In Defense (WID) engages, cultivates and supports the advancement and recognition of women in all aspects of national security. Incorporated in 1985, this empowerment organization provides women a business environment for professional growth through strategic networking, education, and career development.
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Every Mother Counts
Every Mother Counts in a non-profit organization dedicated to making pregnancy and childbirth
safe for every mother, everywhere. We inform, engage, and mobilize audiences to take actions
and raise funds that supports maternal health programs around the world.
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Every Mother Counts
Every Mother Counts in a non-profit organization dedicated to making pregnancy and childbirth
safe for every mother, everywhere. We inform, engage, and mobilize audiences to take actions
and raise funds that supports maternal health programs around the world.
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Equal Right Advocates
Equal Rights Advocates fights for gender justice in workplaces and schools across the country. Since 1974, we’ve been fighting on the front lines of social justice to protect and advance rights and opportunities for women...
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Equal Right Advocates
...girls, and people of all gender identities through groundbreaking legal cases and bold legislation that sets the stage for the rest of the nation.
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Cal Matters
In 2023, companies with at least 15 workers will need to add pay ranges to job postings. Larger companies will also have to report more data to the state.
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CalMatters is a nonpartisan and nonprofit news organization bringing Californians stories that probe, explain and explore solutions to quality of life issues while holding our leaders accountable. We are the only journalism outlet dedicated to covering America’s biggest state, 39 million Californians and the world’s fifth largest economy.
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Crown Act
Help Us End Hair Discrimination in the Workplace, Schools, and Pools
Currently, it is legal to discriminate against a person in the workplace, schools, and/or pools because of their natural or protective hairstyle in all states except for California...
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Currently, it is legal to discriminate against a person in the workplace, schools, and/or pools because of their natural or protective hairstyle in all states except for California...
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New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Colorado, Washington, Maryland, Connecticut, Delaware, New Mexico, Nebraska, Nevada, Oregon, Illinois, Maine, Tennessee, and Louisiana. Hair discrimination remains a source of racial injustice with serious economic consequences for Black people. The CROWN Act corrects these racial injustices by making hair discrimination illegal.
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