A couple of months ago, I wondered what would happen for about 1.5 million women when the Supreme Court got its hands on the class-action, gender-discrimination lawsuit against corporate giant Wal-Mart. That’s the approximate number of plaintiffs in the case who have alleged they’ve been victims of institutional efforts by Wal-mart to promote men over [...]
Sometimes it’s easy to forget that I live in a world of relative privilege. No, I’m not a millionaire or getting ready to jet off to any exotic location for the holidays (though I did see some interesting “wildlife” in South Beach while attending a recent conference!). In my suburban neighborhood, even with cutbacks and [...]
I don’t think I’ve ever specifically said that ‘Walmart moms’ are the key to the 2010 election. But there have been plenty of studies showing that women in general, and mothers in particular, hold a lot of sway not just with household spending, but also at the ballot box. The release of Walmart’s study for [...]
White guy, white guy, white guy, white guy, President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Kathleen Sebelius, white guy, white guy, white guy who looks like he just ate a sour pickle. That’s my one line description of the health care summit the president called when pulling out all the stops to try, in the spirit of harmony [...]
My word of the day is “irony.” I was supposed to attend the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission hearing about updated guidance on caregiver discrimination in the workplace to live blog it for MomsRising. Then my nine-year-old daughter got sick and was home from school, so I couldn’t attend.
Lisa Pagan, a former active duty member of the Army and mother of two toddlers, was called up from the “ready reserves” to report for duty this week for possible deployment to Iraq. She told the Army that she had no one to care for her small children if she was sent overseas because of her husband’s travel work schedule.
I’m not an economist, and I don’t play one on TV.
Over the summer, I took eight-year-old PunditGirl to see the Meet Kit, American Girl movie.
For the uninitiated, Kit is the Depression-era girl whose dad loses his job, moves away to look for work and the family ends up taking in boarders and keeping chickens to sell eggs to make ends meet.
As the mother of a daughter, there are things I want for my eight-year-old especially when she becomes a woman — things that I was lucky to have, but that generations before me didn’t. Interestingly, John McCain, as the father of daughters, doesn’t seem to want those same things.
Dear Sarah,
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