Brad wrote earlier this week asking for your feedback on ways that NYC can take action to secure a feminist economic recovery. Next week, he’s cohosting an event with Council Members Tiffany Cabán and Shahana Hanif to bring organizers and advocates together to talk about policy changes to advance economic justice, safety, and health as part of a feminist recovery.
Brad wants to hear from you before the event — how can the NYC government make our economic recovery inclusive for women? Share your ideas here!
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Women, especially low wage women of color, bore heavy burdens of the pandemic. Many were pushed out of the labor force during remote school and child care closures.
As NYC grapples with rebuilding a stable economic recovery that works for women and families, we are lucky to have a new City Council that for the first time is majority women, and includes powerhouse leaders like Tiffany and Shahana who are redefining how our government can show up for all of us.
We’re excited to join Tiffany and Shahana for this conversation, RSVP here to be part of it next week!
Team Lander
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It’s no secret that women experienced outsized burdens during the pandemic. Women were forced to leave the workforce in large numbers, often bearing the burden of remote learning, childcare closures, and caregiving of the ill and elderly.
Nationally, more than 1 million women left the workforce during the pandemic, undoing years of gains for women’s labor force participation.
And like everything the pandemic touched, the impacts were hardest on low income women and women of color.
We need an inclusive economic recovery that takes on gender disparities in pay — in employment opportunities and in who does the domestic labor. I want to hear from you, what ideas do you have about the changes we need to secure a feminist recovery?I’m working hard as Comptroller to push forward an approach to recovery that tackles the gendered impacts of the pandemic, from testifying to the state legislature urging more funding for child care in the state budget to investor advocacy to push companies to do more on hiring diversity and pay equity.
But I know that we can do more and that I still have a lot to learn.
Share your thoughts with me on how New York City can work to address issues of economic justice for women and secure a more broadly shared recovery.
We said over and over again during the early days of the pandemic that the crisis underscored inequities that had gone too long unaddressed. Now is the time to ensure that our recovery takes them head on.
Thank you for everything you do,
Brad
P.S. As part of Women’s History Month, next week I’m hosting a virtual panel discussion with Council Members Tiffany Cabán and Shahana Hanif on March 30 to talk to experts and organizers about what it will take to win a feminist recovery. RSVP now to join us on March 30!
Brad Lander served in the New York City Council representing District 39 for 12 years—co-founding the Progressive Caucus and leading the way alongside advocates to win policies to support workers, protect tenants, and make government more transparent. Recently elected to citywide office, Brad will use the Office of the Comptroller to hold city government accountable to its promises to New Yorkers and secure a more sustainable future. Give to Brad here.
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