Paid Family Leave

October 20, 2008

As the mother of a daughter, there are things I want for my eight-year-old especially when she becomes a woman -- things that I was lucky to have, but that generations before me didn't. Interestingly, John McCain, as the father of daughters, doesn't seem to want those same things.

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Joanne Bamberger

Paid Family Leave

July 31, 2008

I regret to inform you that you're a victim of your own success: As a result of mothers across the country expressing their outrage at wage discrimination, we have not one, but two (yes, two!) major pieces of legislation moving in Congress to protect women and people of color from discrimination in the workplace.

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Nanette Fondas

Paid Family Leave

June 24, 2008

When it was time to travel to China to bring home our little PunditBaby , I was working at a large government agency in a pretty senior position.

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Joanne Bamberger

Paid Family Leave

June 19, 2008

Today, the U.S. House of Representatives got us one step closer to paid family leave for every working family in the country.

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Rachna Choudhry

Paid Family Leave

June 10, 2008

The moment my now 10-year-old daughter started kindergarten, I knew that school schedules were a missing piece of the work/family puzzle. From the assemblies at 11:00 a.m. that only a handful of parents can attend to the countless days when children are off or released early from school, sometimes it’s hard to believe we’re living in the 21st century.

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Rhonda Present

Paid Family Leave

April 11, 2008

Great news this week -- thanks to your hard work, New Jersey is poised to become the third state in the nation with paid family leave. The NJ State Senate passed the bill 21-15 after receiving over 63,000 (yes that's 63 THOUSAND) letters as part of a major MomsRising campaign. That's what I call "naptime activism" in action! Learn more about the campaign behind this success story here on MomsRising.org, and I also wrote about it on my Mojo Mom blog

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Mojo Mom -- Amy Tiemann

Paid Family Leave

March 12, 2008

In New Jersey, a broad coalition of organizations including MomsRising is in the final stages of passing Family Leave Insurance. This is terrific news that has important national implications.

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Katie Bethell

Paid Family Leave Health Care

March 11, 2008

On International Women's Day Saturday, I started thinking about moms around the world and then moms in our own United States of America. As the mother of four children, I've spent a lot of time over the years breastfeeding babies, and so I wondered: Why do moms in the U.S. still lack a guarantee of some paid maternity leave so they have time to bond with their bundles-of-joy?

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Nanette Fondas

Realistic & Fair Wages Paid Family Leave

February 26, 2008

Written by Nanette Fondas and Katie Bethell A stay-at-home mother doesn't get a paycheck, so she might wonder if the Fair Pay Restoration Act impacts her life. At first glance it appears not, but a closer look shows that it does affect her and that all moms -- regardless of their stay-at-home or working mother status -- would be wise to support it.

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Nanette Fondas

Paid Family Leave

February 22, 2008

A few days back I was talking with a working mom who is newly pregnant. She's someone I really like and respect. Anyway, I asked her what she intended to do regarding maternity leave and she told me she expected that she would take a few weeks off from work.

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Dana Glazer