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05/15/09
Does the Second Shift still apply? I’m re-reading Arlie Hochschild’s 1989 classic in preparing a syllabus for a course on 21st Century feminism. Hochschild’s findings were clear and familiar to many women: when they get home from work, many women with children work a “second shift” of domestic and...
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05/15/09
If you care about your kids future, I bet you care about global warming too. And with good reason: our kids are going to be in hot water unless we do something quick. Good thing we've finally got a President that really gets it – like really gets it. In fact, just a few months after that historic...
05/15/09
My name's Joan, and I live in Lynwood, CA. I've never visited a legislator's office before, but I decided to take the plunge when I got the email from MomsRising about bringing Lifesaver candies to a local member of the CA Assembly. I was a little nervous at first, but it turned out to be a lot of...
05/15/09
How many times do we hear stories that point accusatory fingers at women, deflecting attention from the true problems -- unequal pay, entrenched promotional practices that block women from the highest echelons in the political and corporate arenas, feeble sick leave and maternity leave policies, a lack of childcare subsidies for working mothers, and last but not least, the media's biased coverage?
05/13/09
I’ve never been a big fan of pageants. The social and gender implications are a bit disturbing to me. Add in the environmental and health impacts of conventional cosmetics and the textile and fashion industry and the whole event becomes antithetical to almost every value I hold dear. Needless to...
05/13/09
On June 7 I attended the event that is now plastering the news: the First Lady Michelle Obama spoke out on work life issues. For example: New York Times and ABC News . You may have even heard some of the lines from her speech at Corporate Voices for Working Families—that she is a 120 percenter,...
05/13/09
Shocking but true: There is a tragic lack of support for American families and a deep bias against mothers. A full quarter of U.S. families with children less than six years old live in poverty. Nine million children are without healthcare coverage and many more are under-insured. Fourteen million...
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05/12/09
I don’t know if you’ve ever seen the campy, B-movie, The Toxic Avenger , but the plot line is eerily analogous to many modern moms. The movie in a nutshell: weakling janitor is taunted and falls into a vat of toxic waste, which turns him into a radioactive monster with superhuman strength who...
05/12/09
Cross-posted at MotherTalkers . Glad to see we have a first lady focused on the plight of working families. In a recent speech before corporate executives, Michelle Obama addressed the internal conflict faced by many working parents trying to have it all -- or simply make ends meet -- and why...
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05/12/09
What's $1.00 minus .78 cents? It's the difference between your salary and the salary of your male counterparts. If you're a woman of color, you can subtract at least an additional 10 cents, and for single mothers you can take away even more . That's right: Just sixty cents to a man's dollar. Seem...

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