YWCA San Antonio is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.
115 Years of Eliminating Racism and Empowering Women
YWCA is on a mission and YWCA San Antonio is making it our own!
"We achieve our mission by removing barriers for women, especially women of color, to break the cycle of poverty and thrive. When women empower themselves, they empower their families and communities."
- Francesca Rattray, CEO YWCA San Antonio
Our Film Projects:
La Cuenta Pendiente - Outstanding Balance Telenovela
Through powerful storytelling and culturally relevant narratives, La Cuenta Pendiente (Outstanding Balance) explores themes of racism, sexism, wage inequality, domestic violence, immigration struggles, poverty, and the challenges of single-parent childcare. The series highlights the lived experiences of women and families navigating these hardships while showcasing the strength of community collaboration as a pathway to justice and equity.
Why can’t they just?
“Why Can’t They Just…?” shares the stories of women, served by YWCA and within the YWCA community, who have been experiencing poverty – from intergenerational to situational – and explores the systemic barriers that prevent them from living better lives and realizing their goals.
Thank you to our Women’s Live and Learn Center partners.
From the Desk of Misty Harty, MA, CHW-I
Native Women’s Equal Pay Day (observed November 18, 2025) marks how far into the year Native women must work, on average, to earn what white, non-Hispanic men earned the prior year. This observance is a critical reminder that pay inequity is not abstract — it is a material harm that undermines economic security, family stability, and community health. Native women face some of the largest racial and gender pay gaps in the United States, and those gaps are rooted in long legacies of exclusion, jurisdictional complexity, and underinvestment.
On this day, YWCA San Antonio amplifies Indigenous-led voices and calls for policy and employer practices that close pay gaps: pay transparency, living wages, protections for Indigenous workers, investment in Native-led economic initiatives, and intersectional approaches to compensation equity. We pledge to center Indigenous leadership in conversations about economic justice and to partner with community organizations working for real, measurable change.
— Misty Harty Director of Racial Justice and Gender Equity, YWCA San Antonio
Desde el escritorio de Misty Harty, Directora de Justicia Racial y Equidad de Género, YWCA San Antonio
El Día de Igualdad Salarial de las Mujeres Indígenas (observado el 18 de noviembre de 2025) señala hasta qué punto del año deben trabajar, en promedio, las mujeres indígenas para ganar lo que los hombres blancos no hispanos ganaron el año anterior. Esta conmemoración nos recuerda que la inequidad salarial no es algo abstracto: es un daño material que socava la seguridad económica, la estabilidad familiar y la salud de la comunidad. Las mujeres indígenas enfrentan algunas de las brechas salariales raciales y de género más grandes en Estados Unidos, y esas brechas tienen raíces en largas historias de exclusión, en la complejidad jurisdiccional y en la falta de inversión.
En este día, YWCA San Antonio amplifica las voces lideradas por indígenas y exige políticas y prácticas empresariales que cierren las brechas salariales: transparencia salarial, salarios dignos, protecciones para las trabajadoras y trabajadores indígenas, inversión en iniciativas económicas dirigidas por indígenas y enfoques interseccionales para la equidad salarial. Nos comprometemos a centrar el liderazgo indígena en las conversaciones sobre justicia económica y a asociarnos con organizaciones comunitarias que trabajan por un cambio real y medible.
— Misty Harty Directora de Justicia Racial y Equidad de Género, YWCA San Antonio