Sonia Chang-Díaz is a former public school teacher and the first Latina and Asian-American to serve in the Massachusetts State Senate — and she’s spent her career fighting for and winning the bold change that working families need. Sonia’s mom was a social worker. Her dad came to America with $50 in his pocket and became NASA’s first Latino astronaut. Now she’s building a movement to tackle our state’s biggest challenges and restore Massachusetts’ promise to all families.
We’ve made so much progress on gender equality, and yet events of recent years — from the impact of the pandemic to alarming shifts in the makeup of the Supreme Court — have shown us how fragile that progress can be. We must continue to work to ensure equal rights and protections for people regardless of their gender in our Commonwealth.
Our next Governor must:
Delivering on her plan to establish a universal system of high-quality, accessible and affordable early education and child care for all young children and their families. Sonia knows that increasing the accessibility of child care is vital for ensuring that all women who wish to be in the workforce are able to do so.
Strongly supporting reproductive rights, including backing measures to expand realistic access to family planning services and secure the standards set in Roe v. Wade, no matter what happens on the federal level.
Filing legislation to provide better healthcare access for low-income people who have just given birth, including increasing access to post-partum visits as well as long-acting reversible contraceptives.
Pushing for laws to institute paid family leave, protect women from sexual assault on college campuses, and ensure pay equity.