YWomenVote2024

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The issues below are critical to women – particularly women of color’s – economic security. Women hold the overwhelming majority of caregiving responsibilities in the U.S., and that combined with a lack of pay equity means millions of women find it difficult to remain in the workforce or lose jobs because of caretaking necessities.

• Voters across party lines care deeply about access to quality, affordable #ChildCare and connect that access to having a strong economy. #YWomenVote #GOTV
  
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• State agencies & legislatures, governors, and the federal government each hold the decision-making power around investments in the #childcare industry. #YWomenVote #TheMoreYouKnow💫

• Fact: More than 1 in 4 parents have left education or a job because the incredibly high cost of #ChildCare. 
  Fact: Women provide the vast majority of that care. Just something to keep in mind. #YWomenVote #GOTV 
  
  Read more here about the Major survey shows 1 in 4 American parents forced to quit their job
  

• Our YWCA is proud to provide critical #ChildCare services to the community. We are paying close attention to the ways investments and cuts could impact our work in 2025 and beyond, and we hope you are, too. #YWomenVote #GOTV #TheMoreYouKnow💫
  
  
• DYK: Based on federal data, the median salary, $30,370, for #ChildCare workers is less than the median salaries of delivery drivers, retail shopworkers, and pet sitters? 
  
  That's just $309 above the OPM #poverty line for a family of three with one child.
  
  #YWomenVote #GOTV
  

• @BPC_Bipartisan: 82% of registered voters support paid family & medical leave policies to keep workers from the impossible choice between caring for a family member or one's own health or welcoming a new child and a paycheck. #PaidLeave #YWomenVote #GOTV 
  
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• DYK: #PaidLeave is a racial justice issue. Women of color - particularly Black and Hispanic/Latinx women - are much less likely to have access to paid family and medical leave to care for a loved one, themselves, or to welcome a new child. #YWomenVote #GOTV #TheMoreYouKnow💫

• Sans #PaidFamilyAndMedicalLeave, Black women lose $3.9 billion/yr. in wages when they take time from work to care for their health, provide care, or welcome a child, so many don't or can't take the time they need. 
  
  More from @AmericanProgress: bit.ly/46nGXqp
  
  #YWomenVote
  

• Great: #PaidSickDays access has⬆️for women across the board over the last decade. 
  
  Not great: Most low-income workers must still choose between their own or a child's recovery from illness and keeping food on the table. #YWomenVote #GOTV
  
  @IWPResearch: bit.ly/3W7GbJ3

• Access to #PaidSickDays is key to racial justice and a critical component to addressing the harmful impacts to women of color cause by the long legacy of occupational segregation.
  
  #YWomenVote #GOTV #TheMoreYouKnow💫
  
  Learn more from @NelpNews: bit.ly/4f2iF9b
  
  
• Many #PaidSickDays policies that have been implemented in cities and states around the nation include #SafeDays, which are critical for survivors of abuse to escape violence and to seek care and treatment. More from @WithoutViolence & @NPWF: bit.ly/4d2cyQf #YWomenVote #GOTV
  

• The #YWomenVote Midterms 2022 survey found that 76% of women voters – across party lines – believe #PayEquity should be a high priority for elected officials. #GOTV
  
  More: YWomenVote.org/past-campaigns (Stay tuned for NEW DATA in September!)
  

• DYK: Women of color must work well into this year - even through November for Native American women 🤯- to earn the same as a white, non-Hispanic man last year? See all of the #EqualPayDay dates here: equalpaytoday.org
  
  #YWomenVote #GOTV #TheMoreYouKnow💫
  
  
• The already stark #GenderPayGap is further compounded by the #RacialWageGap - meaning that women of color must work much longer into 2024 to earn what a white, non-Hispanic man earned in 2023. Why? Long legacies of deeply entrenched gender and racial discrimination.
  
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DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE

• Sexual violence reaches all communities and gender identities. But, compared to other races and ethnicities in the U.S., indigenous women are 2.5 times more likely to be victims of rape. 
  
  bit.ly/3Y21fmT

• Communities of color, LGBTQ+, and the disabled community experience disproportionate rates of #IntimatePartnerViolence. Entrenched legacies of discrimination are major contributing factors, and the solutions differ between groups. Learn more: Bit.ly/3W04NDE #YWomenVote

• #YWomenVote Midterms 2022 national survey found that a staggering 80% of #GenZ women of color shared that investments to combat #GenderBasedViolence were a top priority.
  
  Check it out here and stay tuned for new national survey results in September: bit.ly/3zRSWzY
  
  
• Supporting the survivor community is central to the work of YWCA - in fact, 78 associations in 34 states provide critical intimate partner and sexual violence support services. We are proud to work alongside this powerful network to continue advocating for survivors. #YWomenVote
  

RACIAL JUSTICE

Racism is a Public Health Crisis

• DYK: The legacy of racial discrimination and research exclusion in medicine (and many more factors) in the U.S., Black women have a⬆️risk of dying from stroke, cardiovascular disease, and some cancers than any other racial or ethnic group. #RacismIsAPublicHealthCrisis #YWomenVote
  
  
• DYK: The ever-growing stack of undeniable evidence of racial discrimination and disparities in health care led @CDCgov to officially declare racism as a public health threat. #RacismIsAPublicHealthCrisis #TheMoreYouKNnow💫 #YWomenVote
  
  
• Women writ large didn't gain #VotingRights in 1920: Discriminatory state laws kept women of color, including Indigenous, Chinese, and Black women, disenfranchised until #VRA1965 (and some remain disenfranchised to this day).
  
  Bit.ly/3WkK9iV #TheMoreYouKnow💫#YWomenVote
  
  
• New #YWomenVote national survey data is coming this September! In the Midterms 2022 findings. #GenZ women of color named safety from police violence and racial violence as top concerns - we wonder what the new data will reveal. #GOTV  
  
  bit.ly/3zRSWzY
  

VOTER REGISTRATION & EARLY VOTING

In California, voters can register on Election Day and in many more states, deadlines can be anywhere between a month to two weeks ahead of November 5.

Here is where you can register to vote or learn more about voter registration in the State of California.