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Library Hold This Book or 🔊Audio Book on CD From microaggressions to the wage gap, The Memo empowers women of color with actionable advice on challenges and offers a clear path to success. (From the publisher)
—Minda Harts

Library Hold This Book This hands-on manual provides Latinas with the tools they need to succeed at work by examining some of the societal and cultural obstacles that hinder their progress.

Library Hold This Book A potent and electrifying critique of today’s feminist movement announcing a fresh new voice in black feminism. “In theory, public housing and section 8 programs should be closing the pay gap—that is, after all, their are purpose. Yet families are back to having to share small units in defiance of occupancy codes because of cost. Tetris is a game meant to be played with blocks, not people. And the affordable housing crisis disproportionately impacts women. With the pay gap, women earn less, so they pay more proportionately, and that intern means household supported by women are paying larger-than-average proportions of income toward rent.”
—Mikki Kendall

Library Hold This Book or 🔊Audio Book on CD The first Black female CEO of a Fortune 500 company looks back at her life and her career at Xerox, sharing unique insights on American business and corporate life, the workers she has always valued, racial and economic justice, how greed is threatening democracy, and the obstacles she’s conquered being Black and a woman.
—Ursula Burns

Library Hold This Book Policy makers can take a number of critical lessons from the analyses in this volume.

Library Hold This Book book is for girls who want to live boldly, who have a red-hot fire deep down in their gut, who are smart enough to be mad and bold enough to demand change.
—Kaelyn Rich

Library Hold This Book or 🔊Audio Book on CD “How can women and their families get ahead when they’re getting undercut and shortchanged?”
-Kirsten Gillibrand, U.S. Senator for New York State

