AANHPI women earn less than white men with the same level of education at every education level. This reveals how workplace discrimination, occupational segregation, and unequal access to leadership opportunities continue to shape earnings. #AANHPIEqualPay
Abortion rights matter to AAPI women, and we’ve got the facts. Join us 4/17 at 2:00 pm for a conversation centered on AAPI women’s views on abortion-related issues. Come hear key findings & leave informed about how these issues impact our communities. Register today at act.napawf.org/a/beyond-lab...
AANHPI Equal Pay Day is on April 9th.
AANHPI women overall earn about 83 cents for every dollar that white, non-Hispanic men make, but many AANHPI women face even wider wage gaps.
Join us next week to raise awareness of the continued inequality in pay that AANHPI women face!
With our collab Intersections of Our Lives (us + @blackwomensrj.bsky.social + Latina Institute), we just released a new report examining the priority issues for women of color across the country. Access the report at intersectionsofourlives.org/reports/ampl...
Eid Mubarak to our Muslim community! Today marks the end of the month of Ramadan. We wish everyone a joyful day of love and celebration!
At NAPAWF, we remember the lives lost by continuing to challenge and confront the systems and narratives that put our communities at risk, and by working towards a future where AAPI women – no matter their status, background or occupation – can live safely and with dignity.
Since then, the conditions that endanger our communities have not disappeared. While anti-Asian hate crimes have declined from their 2022 peak, they remain nearly three times higher than pre-pandemic levels. napawf.org/resources/20...
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Five years ago today, eight people lost their lives in the Atlanta Spa Shootings. Six of them were Asian women. Those women were targeted because of the overlapping racism and sexism Asian American women have faced for generations.
Vicki remained connected to San Francisco. She helped advocate for the Filipino Education Center in South of Market during the second wave of Filipino immigration in the 1960s. In 2005, a park at the location of her old elementary school was named after her.
Vicki & her husband moved to Southern California to raise their children. Together, they ran a swimming and diving school, and Vicki occasionally performed with touring water shows.
After her win, she visited the Philippines for the first time, touring the newly independent nation for 29 days. She performed public diving exhibitions and visited her father’s family.
She competed in the 1948 London Olympics as Vicki Manalo Draves, where she won gold medals in both Springboard diving and the 10-meter platform. This made her the first Asian American to win Olympic Gold and the first American woman to win gold in both events.
In 1944 she met Lyle Draves, who became her coach. Two years later, he also became her husband. The two made an excellent team. Vicki won four national titles from 1946 to 1948 and qualified for the US Olympic Team.
But the coach of a hotel swim club saw her potential, and he formed a swimming & diving school just for her. Vicki also reluctantly agreed to use her English mother’s maiden name instead of her Filipino surname, competing as Vicki Taylor to be allowed to participate.
Vicki’s family couldn’t afford swimming classes until she was 10 years old. As a person of color, Vicki was only allowed to practice in public pools once a week or once a month, on the day before the pools were drained and cleaned.
Vicki Manalo Draves was born to a working-class Filipino white family in South of Market, San Francisco.
She faced many barriers to becoming an Olympic swimmer. Read her story below!
Emma Nakuina also wrote and published a book on Hawaiian myths and legends. While it was meant as a guide for tourists, her writing did not hide her disdain for foreign influence on the islands. It is unsurprising the territorial tourism organization did not distribute her book.
After the coup, she continued to work as commissioner, and remained responsible for water rights under the evolving US territorial government until 1907 when the circuit courts took her role. Emma Nakuina never held the official title, but she is widely regarded as Hawaii's first female judge.
Her mother's family came from kaukau aliʻi, lower-ranked chiefs who served the Hawaiian Monarchy. Her father was a businessman. In 1892, she was appointed as a Commissioner for Private Ways and Water Rights. The next year, the Kingdom of Hawaii was overthrown in a United States-backed coup.
Emma Kaʻilikapuolono Metcalf Beckley Nakuinawas born in 1847 and served as a commissioner for water rights under both the Hawaiian Monarchy and the US territorial government. She is widely regarded as Hawaii’s first female judge.
The message is clear: a substantial majority of AAPI women across ethnicities support abortion & reproductive care access that is safe, equitable, and without shame. Check out the whole report at napawf.org/resources/be...
78% agree and 51% STRONGLY agree that punishing pregnant people takes away people’s rights to make their own personal decisions about their pregnancy.
79% agree and 54% STRONGLY agree that people need the freedom to make personal decisions about their pregnancy, including whether to use fertility care to become pregnant, use birth control to prevent pregnancy, or abortion to end a pregnancy, without the government intruding.
82% agree and 55% STRONGLY agree that the health and well-being of a pregnant person should be the number one priority, ahead of a politician’s personal religious views.
78% agree and 54% STRONGLY agree that when someone decides to have an abortion, it should be safe, affordable, and free from punishment or shame.
83% of AAPI women agree and 56% of AAPI women STRONGLY agree everyone should have access to the reproductive care they need in the place they call home.
When asked to assess statements about states punishing people who seek or provide abortion care, majorities of AAPI women expressed strong agreement with values-based frames centered on health care access, personal autonomy, freedom from punishment, & prioritizing the well-being of pregnant people.