Empowering Women Advocacy

Ensuring Living Wage For All

Supporting and empowering women through ensuring a living wage is vital to improve the lives of mothers and children. Historically, women face discriminatory wages in all sectors, with women of color further marginalized by job and wage discrimination.

Consider the following:

• The living wage in Franklin County for one adult with 0 children is $14.39. However, currently, the minimum wage of $9.30 in Ohio does not meet the needs of residents of Central Ohio.
• In Ohio, a full time worker (earning minimum wage) with a family of three falls $3,000 short of the poverty level.
• Women- headed households are more susceptible to low wages, workplace discrimination, lack of access to opportunities, and more. A living wage is one way to equalize the playing field, and provide a foundation for economic and social stability.

Other issues that we monitor: Reproductive Justice