Women are twice as likely to retire in poverty than men. This is largely due to gender discrimination in pay, being forced to leave the labor force due to lack of access to affordable quality childcare and paid parental leave. I will fight to ensure that women receive pay equal to their male counterparts, and have access to affordable quality childcare and have access to paid parental leave.
For the past 3 years I have fought along side community organizations to pass the Family care act. The Family Care Act is a bill that would allow workers to use the sick days they have earned under their employers current policy, to care for a child, spouse or parent without being penalized by their employer. Losing a day's wages, or even worse your job, for keeping a sick child home from school or taking an aging parent to the doctor undermines families' ability to cover the basics like groceries and rent. In Georgia, an estimated 878,000 people do not have access to family care days.