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Pay Equity Day
Stories crafted by Herstory participants will be showcased at National Pay Equity Day 2010, April 20, presented by the Women on the Job project of the Long Island Fund for Women & Girls and the Long Island Women’s Institute of CW Post –Long Island University. The evening of stories will focus on Long Island women’s gender and pay – related experiences in the workplace, society and beyond. Herstory readers will include a journeywoman plumber, Latinas from the Workplace Project’s Housecleaners Unity Cooperative, a journalist and others. The event begins at 6 pm and is open to the public. Further details will be posted here when available.
National Pay Equity Day was originated by the National Committee on Pay Equity (NCPE) in 1996 as a public awareness campaign to illustrate the gap between men’s and women’s wages, symbolizes how far into the year a woman must work, on average, to earn as much as a man earned the previous year. Because women overall still are paid just 78 cents for every dollar paid to men, it takes women 15 months to make as much money as men do in a year. To drive home the point, Equal Pay Day is celebrated on a Tuesday because it takes women seven days to make as much money as men make in five.
Herstory in Nicaragua
In the Spring of 2009, through Antoinette Hertel, associate chair of St. Joseph’s College’s Modern Languages Department, Herstory’s method was introduced to a group of twelve female community leaders in Sutiaba, Nicaragua in conjunction with St. Joseph’s ongoing service project with the people of this impoverished community on the outskirts of León. Over the years of working with these female leaders, St. Joseph’s representatives had heard the women’s stories, but now brought the Herstory Page One Moment technique to bear. In a very condensed period of time, each woman in the group shared her life, both orally and in writing, editing and commenting on each other’s stories, as well. The women of Sutiaba continue to meet and write.
Herstory’s Archives at Stony Brook
Stony Brook University’s Special Collections Libraries acquired Herstory’s archives, which include newsletters, letters, photographs, draft and completed manuscripts and other memorabilia from both Herstory and the pre-Herstory Woman’s Salon, which met for a decade in the mid-’70s in Erika Duncan’s New York City apartment and enabled audiences to interact intimately with then-emerging feminist writers such as Susan Griffin, Dorothy Dinnerstein, Olga Broumas and Blanche Wiesen Cook in a forum where the works of women not yet known were heralded in by Tillie Olsen, Alice Walker, Kate Millett and Adrienne Rich, to name just a few.
For more about the reception and reading to celebrate the acquisition, click here.
This collection will be a resource for scholars and students for decades to come. |
