The College of New Jersey offers process based on the principles of restorative justice, an approach that focuses on repairing the harm done to a survivor rather than on assigning punishment to a perpetrator. The process starts with a question: What would the perpetrator “need to hear, see, complete, or do, to recognize and acknowledge the potential harm, and for that to potentially be repaired?"
Asking only female candidates about childcare perpetuates the idea that it is solely the women’s responsibility, something for them to figure out without the men in their lives. So Vox decided, instead, to ask all the male 2020 Democratic candidates with young children at home to describe their child care arrangements — who was caring for their kids, we asked, when they were off campaigning?
Called the Bringing an End to Harassment by Enhancing Accountability and Rejecting Discrimination (BE HEARD) in the Workplace Act, the new law would close loopholes in federal discrimination law that leave many domestic workers without legal protections from sexual harassment. It would authorize grants for low-income workers to help them seek legal recourse if they are harassed. And, crucially for food service worker, it would eliminate the lower minimum wage for tipped workers, which many say makes servers vulnerable to harassment by customers.
A 2018 report by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research looked at women’s earnings across a 15-year period, and compared those with men’s. What they found was a pay gap nearly twice as big as what’s traditionally reported: averaged out over 15 years, women made just 49 cents for every dollar men made. Men lost income when they dropped out of the labor force too, of course. But women were far more likely to drop out, and when they did, the wage penalty was more severe.
While the question of gender bias is complicated, one thing is clear — at the outset of their campaigns, O’Rourke and Sanders got more attention from Americans’ main sources of campaign news than their female counterparts did. But they both also got more attention than several male candidates, including Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), too.