This report puts in one place, not just the data and the facts about the reality that women make up half of America's workforce, but also provides the human stories behind these facts, this data, to show that all of our institutions--our families, our business, our government--have to address the fact that women are full and equal partners in our American society.
My focus was on immigrant women in particular, but all the workers who facilitate the fact that women are half the workforce--the nannies, the housekeepers, the farmworkers, the janitors who make sure that they clean the offices. This work is essential, and no matter how high-tech our economy becomes, we will still need service-sector workers. My point was that somehow we don't value these workers. We entrust our parents, our children; we entrust our offices, our homes. We don't value their work, and is it because it's immigrants who perform this work, or is it because this work used to be done by women?