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12/09/10

Cassidy Randall is the Program & Outreach Coordinator for Women's Voices for the Earth. How often have you heard a friend say she uses Simple Green because it’s a “natural cleaner”? Maybe you’ve even thought the same thing yourself. And who could blame you? The company’s tagline says “We Are...

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Cassidy Randall

12/09/10

When my son was a baby, my breast pump was such a fixture in our house that my husband and I started to think it was talking to us. As the engine hummed, he swore the pump said, "More milk!" and I conveniently heard it whisper, "Cookies, cookies!" Despite my love/hate relationship with that pump, I...

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Ashley Boyd

12/09/10

By Danielle Garrett , Policy Fellow If you’ve been reading our blog, you’ve probably heard how excited we are about releasing the 2010 edition of Making the Grade on Women’s Health: A National and State-by-State Report Card . Hopefully, we’ve sparked your curiosity and you’re wondering what the...

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Thao Nguyen

12/08/10

It's Rally for Girls Sports Day! What did I win by playing sports? So asks the National Women's Law Center. Well, I didn’t win. I lost out by not getting to play much sports when I was a girl. I still got myself, but maybe not as good a version of Myself had I been sporty when I was a girl. Title...

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Amy Cross

12/07/10

Looks like the DREAM is rising again. The DREAM Act, that is, and mothers have been weighing in on a vote that may come up in Congress as soon as tomorrow. Women overwhelmingly support the DREAM Act, a bipartisan piece of legislation that would provide a path to legal status for thousands of young...

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Julissa Gomez

Open Flexible Work

12/07/10

If you live near one of the major U.S. ports, you and your family are probably paying the price for all the goods we import from overseas: filthy air and nearby pockets of poverty resulting from the exploitation of port drivers.

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Teamster Nation

12/07/10

by Judy Waxman , Vice President for Health and Reproductive Rights On Thursday, we’ll be releasing the 2010 edition of Making the Grade on Women’s Health: A National and State-by-State Report Card , the fifth women’s health report card in a decade-long series assessing the overall health of women...

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Thao Nguyen

12/07/10

This week, the U.S. House of Representatives is poised to take up the DREAM Act, a legislation that would grant undocumented immigrant students a chance to pursue their dreams and fully give back to a country they call home. Last week, a young woman by the name of Soo Ji Lim, shared a powerful and...

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EunSook Lee

Paid Sick Days

12/06/10

It all started a few months ago when a friend of mine made a confession: Sometimes she fantasizes about getting into a minor car accident so that she'll have to go to the hospital for a few days. My friend doesn't have a death wish, she's just so stressed out working and taking care of her kids that a hospital visit sounds tantalizingly restful.

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Katrina Alcorn

Realistic & Fair Wages

12/06/10

By Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) Earlier this year, on April 20th, we observed Equal Pay Day, the date that marked the 110 extra days that women had to work into 2010 in order to equal what men earned in 2009. This is an injustice of this first order. In 1963, Congress first responded to the wage gap...

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