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California Dreaming

The Golden State is expected to overtake Germany as the world’s fourth-largest economy this year, but not all of this wealth is being shared equally. In this series, the Guardian and the Fuller Project look at the lives of women, especially women of color, who help drive the economy of the US’s second-most racially diverse state but don’t get their fair share of the pie

13 December 2023

  • When AV Bourke shows up at her job site, she’s one of only two women on the ground — out of about 15 workers installing solar panels. Bourke is a SolarCorps Construction Fellow at GRID Alternatives.

    ‘Quite a gap to close’: women ‘vastly underrepresented’ in green jobs sector

    Women comprise a strikingly small portion of the clean tech workforce, but the White House has made steps to change that

29 September 2023

  • A stock image of a white woman and a Black man, who appear from the necks down, standing by a blue transparent water cooler.

    ‘We have a bias problem’: California bill addresses race and gender in venture capital funding

    Firms known for funding biased AI products would need to submit demographic information on founders

3 August 2023

  • The financial system has become an important new frontier in the fight against intimate partner violence.

    She escaped her husband’s physical violence – but economic ties kept them connected for years

    Dialogue around ‘coercive control’ in relation to financial abuse is gaining steam in the US, with California passing laws to protect victims from collectors

9 May 2023

  • An illustration of a woman in front of a computer.

    Living on the edge: why some California women try to avoid a raise

    Workers worry that any income hike will disqualify them from housing assistance in an exorbitant rental market

23 April 2023

  • An illustration of a man at a desk, facing a line of people in silhouette.

    The workers who say their migrant status has been ‘weaponized’ against them

    Undocumented workers play a crucial role in California’s labor force, but are forced to take exploitative jobs

20 March 2023

  • Child Care Child Tax Credit The Guardian SA Final (1)

    For many parents, it was ‘a saving grace’. Now, California’s childcare subsidy is expiring

    Pandemic relief initiatives helped lift many families out of poverty and now those programs have all but disappeared

15 February 2023

  • Illustration of women farming.

    ‘Filling in the gaps’ for food access: women-run farms rethink California agriculture

    Female farmers represent an increasing share of Golden State cultivators – and grow a wider variety of ‘specialty crops’ than done in traditional monoculture
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