Sarita Gupta
Bio:
Sarita Gupta is executive director of Jobs With Justice and the co-director of Caring Across Generations. She is a nationally recognized expert on the economic, labor, and political issues affecting working people across all industries, particularly women and those employed in low-wage sectors. Sarita has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and Politico, as well as on MSNBC, Al Jazeera America, PBS, CNBC, and Fox. She writes regularly for The Huffington Post, The Hill, and BillMoyers.com and is a key leader and strategist in the progressive, labor, economic justice, women's, and caregiving movements.
Under Sarita's direction, Jobs With Justice is leading the fight to protect and expand the ability for men and women to bargain by anchoring strategic campaigns and shaping the public discourse to generate power and opportunities for working people. Jobs With Justice brings together labor, community, student, and faith voices at the national and local levels to create innovative solutions to the problems working families face today.
The U.S. federal minimum wage is just $7.25 per hour, and most states' under $9. Minimum-wage workers — more than two-thirds of whom are women — have made some gains, and this year their fight continues.
On the day that draws attention to the gender wage gap, the author, a leading expert on workers' rights, calls for a "movement for women's economic freedom."