Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren pledged Friday that, if elected, she would enact on "day one" of her administration an executive order that would benefit women of color in the workplace.

The Massachusetts senator published a proposal on Medium that would take on the wage and leadership gap by denying federal contracts to companies and contractors with historically poor records on diversity and equality, among other mandates.

“Our economy should be working just as hard for women of color as women of color work for our economy and their families,” Warren wrote. “For decades, the government has helped perpetuate the systemic discrimination that has denied women of color equal opportunities. It’s time for the government to try to right those wrongs — and boost our economy in the process.”

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Warren’s proposals would mandate a $15 minimum wage and benefits such as paid family leave and collective bargaining rights for all contractors. It would also ban contractors from using forced arbitration or non-compete clauses, as well as asking for salary and criminal history.

To address a lack of women of color leadership in federal institutions, she would issue an order to recruit from historically black colleges and other minority-serving institutions, among other directives.

Her plan comes a day before her appearance at Essence Fest, an annual music and culture conference in New Orleans that is known as the largest gathering of black women in the country, with an expected 500,000 attendees. 2020 contenders Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, Beto O’Rourke and Pete Buttigieg are also expected to speak at Essence Fest.

Her plan for executive orders, which she writes would be enacted on the first day of her presidency, is yet another addition on an expansive list of proposals, including an ambitious one on college debt, for which Warren’s campaign has become known.

Though her campaign has been met with supporters, critics have spoken against the Warren campaign's emphasis on policy. “It does give me a little heartburn when there’s so much policy detail this early in the campaign," Austan Goolsbee, a senior economic adviser to Barack Obama’s first presidential campaign in 2008, told Politico.

Contributing: The Associated Press