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06/18/10

Heroes The rock star draw of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), Admiral Michael Mullen was the most surprising element of my night at the Families and Work Institute’s (FWI) 2010 Work Life Legacy Awards on Monday. The room’s excitement at his presence was palpable and energizing. Who says...

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Chrysula Winegar

Immigration Realistic & Fair Wages

06/18/10

SAN FRANCISCO – Over Memorial Day weekend, I participated in a blog carnival here at MomsRising on Arizona’s new immigration enforcement law and the fallout of immigration policies that break up families. In one of the stories’ threads, I engaged in a conversation with a woman named "Carla," who...

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Elisa Batista

Paid Family Leave Childcare & Early Education Paid Sick Days

06/17/10

As the first-time mother of an 8-month-old, I’m often concerned with making the world better for my daughter as she grows up. But every day, I also realize that I’m not in this struggle alone. Not only are there millions of moms out there trying to figure out how to balance work, a personal life,...

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Erin Cutraro

06/16/10

In homes across America, fathers are launching a quiet revolution. Catalyzed by the women’s movement, an enormous demographic shift in higher education (women now earn 57% of college degrees), and a brutal recession in which men experienced more than 70% of the 8 million job losses in the US...

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Brad Harrington

06/16/10

The American Medical Association takes a stand against shackling women in labor

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Rachel Roth

Paid Family Leave

06/15/10

Studies show today’s fathers are doing significantly more child care and housework than their fathers did. Here’s my question: Are these dads just folding more laundry, or are they also taking responsibility for the complicated logistics of family life? And here’s my other question: Do heterosexual...

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Katrina Alcorn

06/14/10

Yes, you read that correctly. A couple of weeks before my bar mitzvah, my parents and I went to our rabbi’s home to discuss the big day. One of the honors for the bar mitzvah boy is that members of his family can get called up to read certain prayers during the service, so we gave him our list of...

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Adam Zimmerman

Paid Sick Days

06/11/10

We’re moms and dads. We know firsthand how fast the flu travels through our workplaces, schools, and child care centers. We’ve been up at 3 am half-focused on caring for a sick child and half-focused on the related “what ifs?” What if I send her to school sick? Will she get worse, or get others...

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Ruth Martin

06/11/10

Soccer is the world’s game and can connect us with a world community. Given the dominance of the sport in so many American communities, it's likely you are or have been, a soccer mom. For one month every four years it culminates in the World Cup, this June 11-July 11 - when we're all soccer parents...

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Homa Tavangar

Environmental Health

06/11/10

There are two pictures from my childhood that I think of often, the classic kind that live for years on family refrigerators and mantels. One shows a little boy and I, very young and impossibly blond, too concentrated on our game to notice the snap of an aunt's camera from across the room. Then one...

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