Gender Equality: The Unfinished Business of the Labor Movement
Women at every level are āmoving the labor movement in new directionsā and āinventing new kinds of worker organizations and new ways of being a trade unionist,ā says labor historian Dorothy Sue Cobble .
Cobble, distinguished professor of history and labor studies at Rutgers University, was among several speakers opening a two-day AFL-CIO Solidarity Center conference this morning, āWomenās Empowerment, Gender Equality and Labor Rights: Transforming the Terrain.ā Nearly 100 labor and community activists from 20 countries are gathered here in SĆ£o Paulo, Brazil, to share strategies for achieving gender equality and worker rights in their unions and their workplaces.


