NATIONWIDE —Tomorrow, December 15 at 11 a.m. ET, Color Of Change, TIME’S UP Foundation, and the National Employment Law Project will hold a press briefing with academic partners on new intersectional research that measures racial, gender, and economic disparities amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The national survey, which oversampled Black and Latinx respondents, examines employment and workplace safety issues and how they affect multiple areas of people’s lives, including household economic security, caregiving, and access to health care.
Preliminary findings show:
- Women — and especially women of color — are experiencing outsized impacts from unpaid care responsibilities.
- The majority of Black women fear receiving substandard health care due to their race if they become seriously ill, 15 times higher than white women who said the same.
- Employers are practicing wage theft during the pandemic, stealing wages from Black workers at higher rates than from white workers.
As the pandemic and economic downturn persist, this research serves as a blueprint for reforms needed to promote a fair and just recovery in 2021 and beyond.
WHAT: Experts on race, gender, and socio-economic issues will preview results from the Just Recovery Survey, illustrating how race, gender, and income intersect to shape deep inequities in how people are experiencing the COVID-19 pandemic.
WHO: Color Of Change, Columbia Labor Lab, National Employment Law Project, TIME’S UP Foundation, and Worker Institute at Cornell ILR, featuring:
- Amity Paye, Color Of Change
- Sanjay Pinto, Ph.D., Worker Institute at Cornell ILR
- Maya Pinto, National Employment Law Project
- Rakeen Mabud, Ph.D., TIME’S UP Foundation
- Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, Ph.D., Columbia University
WHEN: December 15, 2020 at 11 a.m. ET.
TO RSVP: Please use this Zoom link.
