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12/16/09
A lot of parents feel schools should teach sex ed—promoting abstinence only when it comes to Mountain Dew or Red Bull. But we can’t really outsource this task entirely. To have sexually healthy kids, parents need to talk about the birds, bees and STDs. And timing is everything. Last week, a study...
Amy Cross's picture
12/15/09
From Your (Wo)manInWashington blog MOTHERS changing the conversation @ www.MothersOughtToHaveEqualRights.org Few women get excited about Social Security, the most successful and efficient effort undertaken by the federal government. I know, I know, I've heard all the excuses - all those numbers, it...
Valerie Young's picture
12/15/09
When I read that there are 100s of toxic chemicals in human cord blood (including BPA ), I feel a little sick. And when I read that there are 100s of toxic chemicals in pregnant women's blood , I feel a little sicker. Especially since many of the chemicals identified in the cord blood samples cause...
Lisa Frack's picture
12/14/09
A single mom needs work; she’s literally thinking about applying for welfare. As she writes on her blog , “I had been looking for a better job, but there were none to be had in the low-income/high-unemployment area where I lived. And I couldn’t get a full-time job anyway — I was still on the...
Morra Aarons-Mele's picture
12/14/09
There’s nothing quite like a fresh, juicy strawberry. What many people don’t know is that some of the nastiest pesticides are used in strawberry fields, and the powers-that-be in California are considering a pesticide that's such a "good" carcinogen it's often used in cancer experiments in the lab.
Kristin Schafer's picture
12/13/09
“What about the holidays?” a women in her 20s asked me, “You see all these capable women running around stores, decorating homes, cooking big meals -- how much does the girl/boy labor gap widen in December?” A lot it seems. While the average hours men spend with children are up big in our...
Sharon Meers's picture
12/13/09
If you shop at Wal-Mart to finish up that last bit of holiday shopping this week, you may be coming home with more than a good deal--you might be exposed to contagious illnesses like colds and the flu.
12/12/09
December 11 is the anniversary of Bernie Madoff's arrest. Though Madoff's fraud was different from the willful blindness that caused so many Wall Street firms to lose their way, there's an important similarity: Market discipline was replaced by boys gone wild. Free markets assume the Economic Man:...
Sharon Meers's picture
12/10/09
So I feel today, as I do many days, that I’m doing a balancing act. I want and need to fight for what may become a major setback for women’s health and rights for my generation. I want to expand access to health care and eliminate the double standard that treats a woman differently than a man when it comes to insurance coverage. In the same moment, I also want to address what we now know harms women and men’s reproductive health: toxic chemicals.
12/09/09
With H1N1 casting a shadow on all our social interactions, food safety is particularly important this holiday season. Not only do we need to think about how long that eggnog has been sitting on the buffet table – or left on the counter in the kitchen before it was served – we also need to worry...

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