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08/25/11

What constitutes a “War on Women?” Is it the daily headlines about attacks on reproductive rights? Or is it more than that? Working at a women’s rights organization, especially one that works on many issues, I can tell you right now that the “War on Women” has many fronts. Some are in the headlines...

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Melanie Ross-Levin

Childcare & Early Education Health Care

08/24/11

A Canadian couple's decision to keep their infant's sex from the world at large seems less weird when one consider's the harms done by the marketing industry's sexualization of young children

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Susan Linn

Paid Sick Days

08/24/11

Fall can be a challenging time for any working parent. Summer is over. Kids are headed back to school – and flu season is around the corner. When a child starts coughing and sneezing or spikes a fever, many parents are filled with dread. But for parents whose jobs do not offer paid sick days, these...

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Environmental Health

08/24/11

Cloth or disposable? Sightline researcher Clark wrote about this way back in 2005. I guess it’s a question that our staff, rightfully, agonize over as they’re gearing up for a diapering blitz of their own. Our baby will probably be changed between 3000 and 7000 times in the first two years. For now...

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Anna Fahey

MomsVote

08/24/11

We, the more than one million members of MomsRising from every state in the nation, love our families and our country. We know that the current extremist attacks on women's health and family economic security are only serving to weaken the United States, not strengthen it. That's why, on the...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Environmental Health Food! Health Care

08/23/11

Picture it: Perfect stacks of crackers and sliced meats, portioned and packaged in plastic. Syrupy fruits in single serve cans. Plastic thermoses full of warm canned soup. And all of these goodies gathered into a shimmering, plastic lunch box. These are the bright back to school images of lunch...

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Claire Moshenberg

Paid Family Leave Childcare & Early Education

08/23/11

Three weeks ago I “came back” to work. I say “came back” because for the previous 10 weeks I was at home taking care of a newborn and now I’m back at my full-time career. I love the saying, “every mother is a working mother.” Now that I’ve had the experience of being a first-time mother, I relate...

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Michelle Noehren

Paid Family Leave Open Flexible Work

08/23/11

Cross-posted from New Deal 2.0 . When Sekiko Garrison told former boss Michael Bloomberg she was pregnant, his answer was simple: "Kill it." Allowing mothers flexible work arrangements, he commented, was like allowing a man time off to practice his golf swing. The CEO who took over when Bloomberg...

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Joan C. Williams

Health Care

08/22/11

Back-to-school season is full of changes: heading to school, choosing new classes, meeting new friends. With all of the excitement, student health insurance can slip through the cracks. But health coverage is critical to make sure students stay healthy and financially secure. Young adults need...

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Aaron Smith

Open Flexible Work

08/19/11

When my husband and I started talking about having kids, I tossed and turned over the implications it would have on my career. I’m just starting to get into a groove of “up and to the right” in my field and since I’m part of a pretty tight team at my job each one of us depends on the others to...

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Jennifer Spencer