Paid Leave for All Women’s Equality Day Campaign
Over the last two years, we’ve made more progress on paid family and medical leave in this country than the decades prior. We passed the first national paid leave law of any kind—though temporary—in 2020, and we passed paid family and medical leave in the U.S. House of Representatives for the first time in history in 2021. We are so close to securing the votes in the Senate and making this a political reality for all working people.
Business leaders are a growing part of this movement, many having already taken meaningful action to provide paid leave for their employees. But we know that having paid leave for all working people benefits all of us—especially with the impact the pandemic has had on women’s employment, caregiving demands, and our health, the lack of paid leave is a challenge to businesses and entrepreneurial women across the country. This Women’s Equality Day, Paid Leave for All has created an Instagram campaign that brings together the voices of women business founders for the first time, to share why we need paid leave to take care of our families and our businesses.
- Hiltha Palepu, Author of We’re Speaking, Curator of #5SmartReads and CEO of Rhoshan Pharmaceuticals
- Chamber of Mothers, Alexis Barad-Cutler, Lauren Brody, Erin Erenberg, Molly Walsh, Raena Joy Boston, Kimberly Didriksen
- Nadya Okamoto, Co-founder of It’s August
- Claire Wasserman, Founder of Ladies Get Paid
- Carly Zakin, Co-founder of theskimm
- Tammy Tibbetts, Co-founder of She’s the First
- Kate Westervelt, Founder of mombox
- Julia Edelstein, Brand Consultant
- Nitika Chopra, Founder of Chronicon
- Sarah Hardy, Co-founder of Bobbie
- Alex Taylor and Tori Gioia, Cofounder of Perelel
- Olivia Howell, Co-founder of Fresh Starts Registry
- Nathalie Molina Niño, Co-founder of Known Holdings
- Monica Banks, Founder of Gugu Guru
- Sali Christeson, Founder of Argent
- Katerina Schneider, Founder of Ritual
- Allison Messner, Co-founder of Yardzen
- Amy Nelson, Founder of The Riveter
- Clare Vivier, Founder of Clare V.
- Puno, Founder of I Love Creatives
- Jamie Kolnick, Founder of Jam with Jamie
- Elina Furman, Founder of khalmi
- Ann Shoket, Founder of New Power Media
- Carolyn Witte, Co-founder of Tia
- Halle Tecco, Founder of Natalist
- Rebecca Lee Funk, Founder of The Outrage
- Katya Libin, Co-founder of heymama
- Piera Gelardi, Co-founder of Refinery29
- Joanna Ho, NYT Best Selling Author of Eyes That Kiss the Corners
- Jaycina Almond, Founder of Tender Foundation
- Courtney Caldwell, Co-founder of ShearShare
- Bridget Todd, Founder of Unbossed Creative
- Ariane Goldman, Founder of HATCH Collection
- Jessica Kremen, Founder of Worthy Threads