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10/23/09

No doubt The Shriver Report , “A Woman’s Nation Changes Everything,” meant to stir up debate and discussion. Hoopla has surrounded the news that women have just about reached parity with men by comprising 50% of the paid workforce; and that women and men agree on much about their evolving roles as...

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Nanette Fondas

Childcare & Early Education

10/23/09

Earlier this week, Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid was photographed wearing his MomsRising pacifier pin—evidence of exactly how powerful moms can be. When enough women come together and make their collective voices heard, politicians will listen. With so much at stake for women, families and...

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Ashlee Tran

10/23/09

Imagine what it'd be like to get up early each morning, apply to every job opening possible, not get any responses, care for a two-year-old daughter, and know that your last unemployment check will come on the 31st of this month. Your very last check. That's Rebecca's story.

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Sarah Francis

10/23/09

Many of us have had to decide whether to send a sick child to school (thinking maybe full of tylenol they might make it to the end of the day...) or taking a day off at work to stay home with them. But sometimes the hoops we jump through can get downright ridiculous. I spoke to a woman in...

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Katie Bethell

10/21/09

When I was writing my book Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict in the late 1990s, I was hoeing a lonely field. Feminism was all about domestic violence, sexual harassment, pornography. Work-family issues were just...dowdy. Much has changed, and it's exciting to have talented and...

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Joan C. Williams

Health Care

10/21/09

You asked, Congress listened! In response to MomsRising messages to Congress last week, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a primary architect of the healthcare reform plan, asked to be the first member of Congress to be photographed wearing the MomsRising Pacifier pin to show that he also won...

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Julia Goodman

10/21/09

By Amanda Stone, Volunteer, National Women's Law Center “Nope, we won’t take her.” This is what insurance companies in Florida said when asked whether they would provide insurance coverage to a hypothetical applicant who had survived rape. Let’s back up a few steps. First, who was asking the...

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Thao Nguyen

10/20/09

From Your (Wo)manInWashington blog Author Linda Tarr-Whelan unveiled her new book, " Women Who Lead the Way ", at a recent congressional briefing. Under the shadow of the Capitol dome, she explained her "30% solution" to problem-solving and decision-making. When women occupy 30% of any entity...

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Valerie Young

10/20/09

By Judy Waxman, Vice President of Health and Reproductive Rights, National Women's Law Center I don’t deserve health care that meets my needs. I shouldn’t demand fairness in my health care coverage. I can’t do anything about it anyway. That’s what the health insurance profiteers want you to think...

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Thao Nguyen

10/19/09

This week we celebrate National Women's Business Week and celebrate we should. Why? Women-owned businesses: Number 10.1 million Represent 30 percent of all U.S. businesses (and 40 percent of privately-held firms) Employ 23 million people (16 percent of the workforce) Generate 3 trillion in revenue...

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Nanette Fondas