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People are calling 2018, “the year of the woman.” More women have filed to run for office than ever before, and are advancing to the election in November. Even in the Central Valley, about half of the races for state legislature include female candidates. But despite the enthusiasm, many say it will take more than one election to bring gender equality to government. One woman hoping to take a seat in the state legislature is Aileen Rizo. While giving a keynote address to the Latinas in Business and Professions Association, she says she anticipated spending her life as an educator after getting a job with the Fresno County Office of Education. “I’d sit in my office at the third level of the Fresno County Office of Education building, and I’d look out and think, ‘wow, how did this Latina girl make it here?’” But in 2012, Rizo sued FCOE for wage discrimination and began advocating for equal pay in Sacramento. Rizo explained what it was like to tell her story to her representative,
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