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Latina Mothers Hope Supreme Court Upholds Health Care Law

June 25, 2012
Happy to see my op-ed at FOX News Latino . I'd love to hear your comments! -Elisa The suspense continues on how the Supreme Court will render its ruling on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act. If the ruling upholds the law, then millions of families across the nation will continue to...
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Elisa Batista
Paid Family Leave

Take Action: Tell Congress Families Need Paid Family Leave!

June 25, 2012
Good news: We’re expecting! We’re expecting that Congress will soon receive a special delivery message from moms and dads that families need paid family leave! The "stork" (i.e. MomsRising moms) will be delivering thousands of signatures to our open letter to Congress on Tuesday, July 10th. Have...
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Ruth Martin
Childcare & Early Education

Gender Segregation in Community College Degrees 40 Years After Passage of Title IX

June 25, 2012
Analysis by the Institute for Women's Policy Research finds that although women make up the majority of community college students, men and women in community college pursue very different degrees, with women generally training for lower-paying careers. Women with associate degrees earn, on average...
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Caroline Dobuzinskis
Environmental Health

NC Moms Hold a Toxic Free Kids Olympics

June 25, 2012
Last week I joined with other Triangle families down at the North Carolina General Assembly for a “Toxic Free Kids Olympics” in the Children’s Garden. The purpose of the event was to highlight the need for legislation to get harmful chemicals out of the products we buy. Moms and kids played games...
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Felicia Burnett
Paid Family Leave Open Flexible Work

Slaughter versus Sandberg: Both Right

June 23, 2012
First, thanks to Anne-Marie Slaughter for peeling the band-aid off an open wound of American womanhood. It’s our dirty little secret: balancing work and family is still impossible for elite American women because of the way we structure work, family, love, marriage, careers, masculinity, and...
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Joan C. Williams

Friends like these

June 22, 2012
Cross-posted from Population Action International Like many, I went to Rio full of expectations. I had been feeding off of the hype around Rio for months: “This UN conference will be a seminal moment in history!” “The outcomes from Rio +20 will set the agenda for a new development paradigm reaching...
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Elisha Dunn-Georgiou
Paid Family Leave Health Care

In Sickness and in Health? LGBT New Yorkers Need Family Leave Insurance

June 22, 2012
In the year that has passed since Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law the New York Marriage Equality Act, thousands of same-sex couples have vowed to take each other "in sickness and in health." Yet because of discriminatory and inadequate federal laws that deny LGBT spouses the protections...
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Childcare & Early Education

Educational Success Is Largely Determined By Where You Live

June 22, 2012
by Judy Molland at care2.com Earlier this year, Care2′s Kristina Chew wrote about the widening gap between rich and poor students in schools across the U.S. over the past few decades and how, as a result, the gap in standardized test scores between affluent and low-income students has grown by 40...
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Environmental Health Blog Carnivals

Green Momma Parties Empower Moms with Knowledge & Action

June 21, 2012
Who doesn’t like parties? Especially a party with a purpose - yes, please! Women’s Voices for the Earth’s new Green Momma Parties are the latest DIY party that makes detoxing the home fun (yes, we said “fun”). With a room-by-room guide for eliminating harmful chemicals, do-it-yourself recipes with...
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Cassidy Randall

Traveling With an Autistic Child in Holland, Italy, France… (Video)

June 21, 2012
by Kristina Chew at care2.com Morgen Kann Warten — German for Tomorrow Can Wait — is a Kickstarter project about traveling with an autistic child in Europe. Scott and Monika Knight (who live in Berlin) describe their travels all over Europe — Thessaloniki in Greece, Nice and Paris in France, Dublin...
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