[ONLINE] – Crisis Conversations — Live From Better Life Lab

The coronavirus pandemic is disrupting virtually everything about the way we work, live, connect with one another and expect from our government, businesses, communities and each other. And it’s exposing the deep cracks and inequities in American society. We can’t go back.  So what will it take to create a fairer future of work and family? That’s what the Better Life Lab explores every week. Join us on Zoom to share stories, make sense of what’s so rapidly unfolding, and imagine together a better new normal.

Join us on Friday, July 10 at 1 pm Eastern time, for a 30-minute interactive conversation on why the next bail out should focus on Black women and women of color. Before the pandemic, even with historically low unemployment, Black women and women of color were more likely to be clustered in undervalued jobs that don’t pay well. Now, even though the women of color are more likely to be key breadwinners for their families, they are disproportionately likely to have lost their jobs in the pandemic . And because of gender and racial pay gaps and the deep wealth gap – women of color have just pennies of wealth for every $1 of wealth that white men control – women of color are less likely to have the resources to weather the current storm. We explore how to change that. And why it’s important for all of us.

Host:

Brigid Schulte
Director, Better Life Lab at New America

Guests:

Jocelyn Frye
Senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, where her work focuses on a wide range of women’s issues, including work-family balance, pay equity, and women’s leadership. Author of On the frontlines at Work and at Home: The Disproportionate Economic Effects of the Coronavirus Pandemic on Women of Color

Dominique Derbigny
Deputy Director of Closing the Women’s Wealth Gap (CWWG) initiative, author of On the Margins: Economic Security for Women of Color through the Coronavirus Crisis and Beyond and co-author of Left Out: Why we must Center Women of Color in the next Covid-19 Relief Package

Dr. Michelle Holder
Assistant professor of Economics at John Jay College, City University of New York who focuses on Black Americans and women in the American labor market, and author of Before Covid-19, Corporate America shortchanged Black Women $50 billion annually: Why all women should care

Jaime Gloshay
Project Manager at Roanhorse Consulting (RCLLC)
Co-founder of Native Women Lead