Paid Sick Leave: A Feminist Issue

Ai-jen Poo, Executive Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, and Shelby Knox, activist and organizer, have an opinion piece in The New York Daily News today calling for the NYC City Council to support paid sick days. From their article:

Nearly a million working people in New York lack paid sick days. Most are women in low-wage, service sector jobs…Especially in these difficult times, no one should be forced to choose between their family’s health and their income.

Earlier this week, The New York Times reported on a letter from Gloria Steinem and 200 other prominent women calling on NYC Speaker Christine Quinn to support the paid sick leave measure.

Paid sick leave was the number one policy recommendation in BCRW’s New Feminist Solutions report, “The Work Family Dilemma: A Better Balance,” followed by improved access to flexible work arrangements, ending discrimination against those with family responsibilities, and providing adequate childcare for all working New Yorkers. As noted in the 2007 report,

Many New York City workers and a majority of the working poor do not have even a single day of sick leave – 65 percent of poor New Yorkers and 45 percent of the near poor have no paid sick days, and nearly a third (32 percent) of higher-income New Yorkers lack sick leave as well.

Related:

• The Work-Family Dilemma: A Better Balance – Policy Solutions for All New Yorkers
• Expanding Feminism: Collaborations for Social Justice, with Ai-jen Poo
• Women and Work: A National Domestic Workers Alliance Panel Discussion
• Valuing Domestic Work
• Domestic Workers Bill of Rights: A Feminist Approach for a New Economy
• New Feminist Activism, with Ai-jen Poo, Mia Herndon and Rinku Sen

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