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WAGE helps battle gender discrimination.(We Advocate Gender Equity)
It's the quintessential David and Goliath story. Small, grassroots nonprofit network takes on big, bad behemoth and wins--repeatedly.
That describes WAGE (We Advocate Gender Equity), a small, grassroots California-based nonprofit that supports academic women struggling with discrimination. Its mission: "To end gender bias and achieve gender equity in the education, hiring, retention, promotion and compensation of women in the academic community within the University of California and other academic institutions."
In the beginning
In 1993, Charity Hirsch was part of a support group for Jenny Harrison, a University of California-Berkeley ...
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