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 page
at the Rhode Island General Assembly
Campaign site
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Gayle Goldin
at

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