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A big part of the reason why we work to elevate women is so they have choices and control over their personal and financial future.
Serving on the Amicus Briefs Committee is a fantastic way to keep abreast of pending cases that directly affect the mission and core values of Lawyers Club of San Diego, and to assist the Lawyers Club’s Board in defending these principles.
On Saturday, October 2, 2021, before the United States Supreme Court reconvenes for its October term, the people of San Diego will join marchers across the nation who are taking to the street and demanding women’s right to reproductive healthcare be protected.
Yesterday – nine months into the year – was #NativeWomensEqualPayDay. This means that Native American women had to work until September 8, 2021, to earn what their white, non-Hispanic male colleagues earned on average in 2020—that is 60 cents for every dollar. This equates to more than $24,000 per year and $1 million over a 40-year career.
On Wednesday, September 1, 2021, in Whole Woman’s Health v. Jackson, 594 U.S. ____ (2021), the U.S. Supreme Court declined to act on an emergency request to stop Senate Bill 8 (S.B. 8), effectively ending Roe v. Wade in the state of Texas.
The devastating situation in Afghanistan has underscored the risk of harm that Afghan women attorneys, judges, journalists, and women’s rights advocates have always faced.1 Despite those risks, these women worked from within to advance women’s rights in Afghanistan. And their advocacy worked: during the prior Taliban regime that fell 20 years ago, there were no women judges in Afghanistan.2 Today, there are approximately 270.
Like many of you, I have been consumed by thoughts of the disturbing human rights situation currently unfolding in Afghanistan. I have read many stories of professional women—attorneys, judges, journalists, women’s rights advocates, and other professionals—who are now at risk of being killed, tortured, or imprisoned. There are approximately 270 women judges in Afghanistan, many of whom are now in the process of burning records of their decades-long careers in order to avoid imprisonment or death.1
During three grueling years of law school and about $160,000 in student loans later, no one taught the art of salary negotiations or even mentioned that it would be a skill essential to my career. So as a second-year associate in a large San Diego law firm, I had no idea that I could, or more importantly, should, ask for a raise. In fact, a few of my female colleagues told me that asking for a raise was not worth it.
As your president, I have been deeply honored and humbled for the privilege to share messages with you since July 1, 2020 in a year like no other for each of us and for Lawyers Club. Together we have lived through a global pandemic and also witnessed an increase in awareness of the inequities for women and people of color to heights not seen for decades. And we saw women continue to shatter glass ceilings when the first woman—a woman of color became Vice President of the United States.
If you are looking to never worry about a 40-year tax (rough estimate of how long women menstruate), then look no further than Scotland.
