Gayle L. Goldin
is an American politician and a former
Democratic member of the
Rhode Island Senate representing District 3 from January 2013 to August 2021. She is originally from
Montreal, Canada, having immigrated to the United States at a young age.
Goldin resigned from the senate in August 2021 to become the Deputy Director of the Women's Bureau of the
United States Department of Labor under the
Biden administration.
Education
Goldin earned her
BA in
English literature
English literature is literature written in the English language from United Kingdom, its crown dependencies, the Republic of Ireland, the United States, and the countries of the former British Empire. ''The Encyclopaedia Britannica'' defines E ...
from
McGill University
McGill University (french: link=no, Université McGill) is an English-language public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1821 by royal charter granted by King George IV,Frost, Stanley Brice. ''McGill Universit ...
and her
MA in
public policy
Public policy is an institutionalized proposal or a decided set of elements like laws, regulations, guidelines, and actions to solve or address relevant and real-world problems, guided by a conception and often implemented by programs. Public p ...
from
Tufts University
Tufts University is a private research university on the border of Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1852 as Tufts College by Christian universalists who sought to provide a nonsectarian institution of higher learning. ...
.
Rhode Island Senate
Goldin was a member of the Senate Democratic Caucus, of which she was the Deputy Majority Whip.
Shortly after her election to the Senate, Goldin was the primary sponsor of the Temporary Disability Insurance bill, which made Rhode Island the third state to offer temporary benefits to workers "take time off for a seriously ill child, spouse, parent, domestic partner or to bond with a new child."
Goldin successfully sponsored an bill in 2016 which requires Rhode Island schools to educate students about
the Holocaust
The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; a ...
and other
genocide
Genocide is the intentional destruction of a people—usually defined as an ethnic, national, racial, or religious group—in whole or in part. Raphael Lemkin coined the term in 1944, combining the Greek word (, "race, people") with the Latin ...
s.
She is also an outspoken advocate for other women in politics and publicly detailed the sexism faced by women at the Rhode Island Statehouse.
Committee assignments
Goldin was a member of the following committees:
* Committee on Health & Human Services, ''Vice Chair''
* Committee on Labor
* Committee on Environment and Agriculture, ''Secretary''
Electoral history
No other candidates filed for election in the 2020 District 3 Democratic Primary and it was subsequently cancelled.
References
External links
Official pageat the
Rhode Island General AssemblyCampaign site*
Gayle Goldinat
Ballotpedia
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Gayle L. Goldinat the National Institute on Money in State Politics
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
McGill University alumni
Politicians from Providence, Rhode Island
Democratic Party Rhode Island state senators
Tufts University School of Arts and Sciences alumni
United States Department of Labor officials
Women state legislators in Rhode Island
Biden administration personnel
21st-century American politicians
21st-century American women politicians
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