Women's pay, women's rights highlighted on Ohio 'tourism' billboards

This is a continuation of the DU thread: http://www.democraticunderground.com/11384585 at the Women's Rights & Issues Group



Cleveland.com
Women's pay, women's rights highlighted on Ohio 'tourism' billboards
By Jackie Borchardt, Northeast Ohio Media Group
August 21, 2014, updated August 22, 2014

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Visitors to three Ohio cities in the next few weeks will be welcomed by billboards drawing attention to the fact Ohio doesn't guarantee paid maternity leave and nearly one in five Ohio women live in poverty.

UltraViolet, a national women's rights group, bought the billboard space near airports in Cleveland and Dayton and near Interstate-270 in Columbus. The Cleveland billboard is scheduled to go up Monday on Berea Freeway near Brookpark Road and run for four weeks.

The ads also will appear on travelers' mobile phones while inside the airports...

...On the billboards:
•Women are paid 77 cents for every dollar a man earns
•18 percent of Ohio women live in poverty
•Ohio doesn't guarantee any paid maternity or sick leave
•Ohio's new abortion restrictions closed five clinics in 2013
•Many Ohio politicians opposed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act

MORE (plus a pic of the billboard) at http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2014/08/womens_rights_billboards_go_up.html