The restaurant industry’s treatment of women made headlines in the last few months in the context of the Presidential campaign. However, few reporters covered the real story: women make up the majority of the industry’s more than 10 million workers, but suffer in its lowest-paying positions with little access to benefits. Moreover, 66% of the industry’s 3.6 million tipped workers are women, for whom the federal minimum wage has been frozen at $2.13 for over twenty years. This makes the restaurant industry the only sector of the U.S. economy in which a lower wage for women is set by law and not just employer practice.
COME & JOIN US: On 2.13, ROC United, along with leading national women’s organizations, is sponsoring a Congressional Briefing in Washington, D.C. on the release of our newest report “Gender Equity in the Restaurant Industry”.
Hosted by Congresswoman Donna Edwards!
When: Monday, 2.13 — Doors open 8:30 am (refreshments served!), Program begins at 9 am
Where: Room B-338, RAYBURN HOUSE OFFICE BLDG, Washington, D.C.
RSVP to http://genderequityreport.
Sponsored by: HERvotes, The Institute for Women’s Policy Research, MOMS RISING, National Coalition on Black Civic Participation’s Black Women’s Roundtable, National Council for Research on Women, National Partnership for Women & Families, National Women’s Law Center, National Organization for Women, Wider Opportunities for Women, Women of Color Policy Network, 9to5, National Association of Working Women
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