St, Louis County Executive Sam Page pledged to make pay equity for women and minorities a priority of his administration.The County Executive was inspired by the Women’s Foundation of Greater St. Louis’s advocacy to sign an executive order banning inquiries into...
Today, on Equal Pay Day, the Women’s Foundation of Greater St. Louis (WFSTL) has released a report on the results from its second annual Women in the Workplace: Employment Scorecard initiative, which evaluates employment practices of organizations in the St. Louis...
A recent report, led by St. Louis University associate professor Dr. Anne Sebert Kuhlmann, found that 64% of low-income St. Louis women occasionally struggle with affording menstrual products such as pads or tampons, and 20% of those women stated that they...
A recent study found that nearly two-thirds of low-income women in the St. Louis region can’t always afford pads or tampons – often resorting to rags, diapers or paper towels. This issue is often referred to as “period poverty,” and has serious economic and health...
From our Executive Director At the State of the Union address, many wore buttons proclaiming “ERA YES” pinned to their white lapels – an endorsement of the Equal Rights Amendment which is once again gaining momentum throughout the country. The ERA would...