Policy & Advocacy

In early February, the AnitaB.org team attended the National Skills Summit in Washington, D.C., an annual gathering of federal, state, and local stakeholders concerned about investing in the American workforce. This is the annual event of the National Skills Coalition, which advocates year-round for greater resources for American workers to pursue the skills and workforce…

Let’s start at the top — Congress is constitutionally guaranteed the “power of the purse.” This means that every year, it’s up to Congress to determine how tax dollars get allocated to all of the government’s federal expenditures, from Medicare to public schools, and from maintaining U.S. embassies abroad to dairy farm subsidies. When it…

Women comprised only 12% of all inventors named on U.S. patents granted in 2016. In 2018, Congress passed the SUCCESS Act, a law that directed the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to conduct a study and provide recommendations to promote the participation of women, minorities, and veterans in the U.S. patent system. In late…

At AnitaB.org, we are dedicated to supporting women in tech and providing them with the resources they need to thrive in their careers. Our goal is to reach 50/50 intersectional tech equity by 2025 and to close the persistent pay gap that exists for women and underrepresented minorities. In order to reach this vital benchmark,…

by Kety Esquivel, Vice President of Marketing and Communications Nearly 12 months. That is how many extra days a Latina has to work just to earn what the average white man earns in a year. In the U.S., Latinas earn 54 cents on the dollar as compared to white, non-Hispanic men. The average woman in…

Last updated on January 29, 2024 On November 8, 2019, the Hidden Figures Congressional Gold Medal Act was signed into public law. The legislation honors Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Dr. Christine Darden, and all the women whose outsized contributions during the Space Race era at NASA (or for some at the time, NACA) went…