motherhood
Posted March 21st, 2012 by Claire Moshenberg
Happy second birthday, health care reform! This week is the two year anniversary of the passage of the Affordable Care Act. Over the past two years, millions of families have been helped by health care reform, and when new provisions kick in 2014, millions more will have access to crucial health care coverage for themselves and their [...]
Posted March 8th, 2012 by Felicia Willems
Mothers are considered to be among the most revered members of our society. Celebrities publicly thank their moms for helping them to achieve their dreams. Politicians wax poetic about valuable childhood lessons bestowed upon them by their mothers. Even female politicians talk about how their motherly instincts give them some sort of special insight into [...]
Posted March 8th, 2012 by ACLU
By Anne Morrison, ACLU Women’s Rights Project Today is International Women’s Day, a day to celebrate the advancements women have made while reflecting upon the barriers we still face. Around the world, women have made great steps towards equality, yet the injustice of violence against women has remained rampant. Here in the United States we [...]
Posted March 1st, 2012 by Joan C. Williams
co-written with Rachel Dempsey In the last post, we talked about the problem of pregnancy discrimination against women in hourly jobs – cases where mothers were refused simple accommodations that would help them have healthy pregnancies. Discrimination against pregnant women and mothers is a huge problem for working-class women, for whom a single missed day [...]
Posted February 28th, 2012 by Valerie Young
From Your (Wo)manInWashington blog MOTHERS changing the conversation @ www.MothersOughtToHaveEqualRights.org MOTHERS member and resident reader Kelly DiNorcia sent me this book review – we’ll take a much needed break from politics and presidential campaigns with this post and lose ourselves in the pages of a “momoir”. You can find more reading for the maternally-minded at [...]
Posted February 28th, 2012 by Claire Moshenberg
Great news: Nontoxic baby care products don’t have to be expensive! Organic, nontoxic, or even fragrance free items for our little ones can veer towards the pricey side. Luckily, there are easy, affordable DIY solutions for many commonly used baby care products. Here are our top 5 DIY nontoxic baby care products (Not up for [...]
Posted February 21st, 2012 by Joan C. Williams
In the 1970s, after it became illegal to discriminate based on race, some employers responded by imposing high school education requirements for blue-collar jobs. Today, employers who want to keep women out of “men’s jobs” do something similar: they wait until workers get pregnant, and then deny them “light duty,” like desk work for a [...]
Posted February 17th, 2012 by Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner
My jaw dropped. Could I really be seeing a picture of the “expert” witnesses on birth control testifying before Congress, and ….they were all men?! [1] What year are we in anyway? This is beyond out-of-touch. It’s downright offensive. With 1.86 children in the average U.S. family, it’s clear that the vast majority women and mothers [...]
Posted February 15th, 2012 by Claire Moshenberg
Welcome to Wellness Wednesdays! Join us on the MomsRising blog every Wednesday for tips, expert advice, and the latest news on wellness related issues, including: Breastfeeding Health care Paid Sick Days …and so much more! It’s going to be great: Look how happy this baby is about it! This week, we’re taking a closer look [...]
Posted February 12th, 2012 by Kristin Maschka
Today’s mothers and fathers have an uphill battle. Here we are struggling to share parenting and employment in a world that still expects us to be in traditional family roles, and a government institution comes along to tell us that when dad takes care of the kids it’s “babysitting”, but when mothers do it, well, [...]
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