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06/23/11

This week, the U.S. Supreme Court blocked up to 1.6 million women from suing Walmart for sex discrimination in a class action lawsuit. The court's 5-4 conservative majority sided with business over women, claiming that Walmart's well-documented wage and hiring disparities are coincidences and not a...

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Senator Kirsten Gillibrand

06/23/11

Originally published on Colorlines.com The Supreme Court issued its decision in the Dukes v. Wal-Mart sex discrimination case this week, a frustrating ruling that doesn't challenge the existence of bias, but that exempts the company from accountability. The case highlights the difficulty of...

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Rinku Sen

06/22/11

Cross-posted from The Hot Mommas Project Blog Today I’m sharing some of my research for the first time. I have proof that women not only need mentors, but also HOW MANY they need. The short answer: The number is 5. How to think about this, organize yourself, and find these mentors is a huge part of...

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Kathy Korman Frey

06/22/11

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , in 2009, emergency nurses like me and my colleagues at the Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) treated more than 350,000 teenagers for injuries they suffered in motor vehicle crashes. Fortunately, most of them survived the crashes, but...

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AnnMarie Papa

Childcare & Early Education Health Care

06/21/11

No one would argue that former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger had a passion for women’s . . . issues. But throughout his seven-year tenure, Arnold never made a serious and sustained effort to terminate the state’s Commission on the Status of Women. Let’s be real – it was sheer political...

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Kate Karpilow

Environmental Health Health Care

06/21/11

When I think about fire safety, I think about cartoons. Stick with me here. Every Saturday morning, half awake over bowls of cereal, my sister and I watched hours of Saturday morning cartoons. These blocks of animated programming were laced with PSAs preaching the importance of fire safety: Stop...

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Claire Moshenberg

06/21/11

Hugely disappointed and then…angry. That’s how I felt, as a woman, and as the mother of a daughter, when I heard the news yesterday that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the courageous women of Wal-Mart – and women everywhere – in a 5-4 decision that these women won’t be able to join together...

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Ruth Martin

Childcare & Early Education Environmental Health Health Care

06/20/11

As advocates for deep change know, big success is often preceded by small incremental changes that may go unnoticed by the general public. It seems the effort to stop fast food companies from hawking toys to kids is gaining ground. I was watching Friday Night Lights recently (a great show if I don’...

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Susan Linn

Realistic & Fair Wages

06/20/11

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that female Wal-Mart workers could not carry out a class action lawsuit against the retail giant. But the court was split 5-4 on whether the women had grounds for a discrimination claim. From the Washington Post : The court split 5 to 4 on ideological lines...

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Elisa Batista

Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days

06/20/11

Working parents have a lot to juggle, and this can create stress. But what we often overlook is that stress has real health consequences. Several weeks ago, I put together a survey * asking working parents about stress and its effects on their health. More than 600 people responded. I filtered out...

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