Ep 03: Noreen Farrell, Equal Rights Advocates & LGBTQIA+ Equal Pay Awareness Day

Equality Talks: The Official ERA Podcast

Meet Noreen Farrell, Executive Director of Equal Rights Advocates and ERA Coaltion partner. Host Elisa Parker speaks with Noreen about their Equal Pay Today campaign and the LGBTQIA+ Equal Pay Awareness Day.

Equal Rights Advocates fights for gender justice in workplaces and schools across the country. Since 1974, we’ve been fighting on the front lines of social justice to protect and advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and people of all gender identities through groundbreaking legal cases and bold legislation that sets the stage for the rest of the nation.

Hosted by nationally acclaimed radio host and Equal Voices Elisa Parker, Equality Talks bridges the intersections of equality, justice, and social activism to unify as a collective and change the status quo.

Equality Talks focuses on the key facets of equality across all communities, including everything from gender, racial, economic and reproductive justice, to labor, immigrant, and LGBTQ+ rights. Programming for the month of June highlights Generation Ratify speaking about the youth movement for the Equal Rights Amendment, advocates supporting LGBTQ+ Pride Month, and members of the Congressional ERA Caucus speaking about Juneteenth.

For more information on Equality Talks go to www.ERACoaltion.org and www.EqualVoice.org.

The ERA Coalition was founded in 2014 to bring concerted, organized action to the effort to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. The ERA Coalition has a sister organization, the Fund for Women’s Equality, which promotes public education and outreach on the need for constitutional equality. Composed of more than 290 organizations across the country representing millions of people, the Coalition is a movement of movements focused on overall equality in the United States.

While the effort to amend the constitution to include sex equality began nearly a century ago, our renewed efforts are centered on women of color (African American, Asian American/Pacific Islander, Latina, and Native American), gender-nonconforming and transgender women and girls, and nonbinary people – those who are most impacted by systemic inequities.

www.eracoalition.org | www.fundforwomensequality.org

About Noreen:

Noreen Farrell is the Executive Director of Equal Rights Advocates, one of the nation’s leading legal nonprofits advocating for women and girls at work and school. Noreen was named a top Legal Innovator in 2014. She also was named one of the 2012 Top Women Leaders in Law by The Recorder and, in 2013, she was named as one of the Top 100 Women Lawyers in California and Top Employment Lawyers in California by the Daily Journal.

She has led ERA’s impact litigation and policy efforts to eradicate sex discrimination (previously as ERA’s Legal Director and as its Executive Director since April 2012). She has served as counsel in numerous successful individual and class actions, including on behalf of female students, janitors, retail workers, lawyers, restaurant workers, tradeswomen, educators, and casino workers.

Noreen speaks extensively across the country and has published widely on civil rights matters. She is considered a national leader in a variety of gender justice issues, including Title IX protection of students from sex discrimination, fair pay, sexual harassment, workplace leave and accommodation, and the protection of caregivers from discrimination at work.

Noreen currently serves as Chair of the Stronger California Advocates Network, a collaboration of nearly 30 organizations advancing a comprehensive women’s economic security policy agenda. She also chairs the Equal Pay Today Campaign, a national campaign led by ERA and 20 other organizational partners closing the gender wage gap in states across the country.