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Both the State Senate and the Assembly have approved legislation that would create a NYS Women’s Suffrage 100th Anniversary Commemoration Commission. Senator Betty Little sponsored the Senate bill. The commission will help raise awareness of approval of a woman’s right to vote in New York in 1917, and ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1920. Members of the commission will not be paid. The legislation awaits consideration by Governor Andrew Cuomo.
- Jennnifer Lawrence is the highest-paid actress in the world via The Washington Post
Now the facts resonate once again, as Forbes rolls out its annual list of “The World’s Highest-Paid Actresses.” Lawrence (star of the blockbuster “Hunger Games” movies) unsurprisingly topped the list with $52 million over the past year. Meanwhile, at the top of the “World’s Highest Paid Actors”? Robert Downey Jr., with a whopping $80 million sum, thanks in large part to his “Iron Man” franchise.
- How the wage gap changes as women reach childbearing age via Marketwatch
In 29 fields ranging from chemical engineering to philosophy, women between the ages of 22 and 27 make slightly more on average than men with the same majors who entering similar fields, according to a Federal Reserve Bank of New York analysis of census data. But women between the ages of 35 and 45 who are working those same jobs actually make less than their male colleagues, the study found.
NPR’s Tom Bowman reports that the women, whose names haven’t been released, attended West Point and will graduate with the rest of their Ranger class on Friday. The Pentagon has not decided whether they will be approved for ground combat. “They’ll now wear the Ranger tab on their uniforms,” Tom says. “A coveted award among infantry soldiers.”
Donna Seymour, who hales from the (far upstate) North Country of NYS, has spent 40 plus years advocating for children, women and family issues, equity, sustainability, and social justice issues. Currently serving as the Public Policy VP for AAUW-NYS (the American Association Universality Women), she also is a member the League of Women Voters, the Equal Pay Coalition, PTA, NOW, and Planned Parenthood, just to name a few.