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Spark a Workplace Practice Revolution! (And find out how to get a personalized autographed copy of The Custom Fit Workplace)

April 25, 2012
Parents need better, more modern workplace practices. MomsRising has worked on this for years. Flexibility, telework, and non-linear career paths are all workplace practices that are good for business, mothers, kids, and everyone else. Our own Joan Blades and Nanette Fondas wrote a book called The...
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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner
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Earth Week is for Mothers

April 25, 2012
by Rachel Sarnoff, Executive Director & CEO Healthy Child Healthy World www.healthychild.org Happiest Babies Are Soothed by 5 S’s Can simple soothing take the place of sugar? That was the takeaway from a new study published this week in the journal Pediatrics. In a study involving more than 200...
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Environmental Health

Prize-winning mom brings Monsanto battle to White House

April 24, 2012
Last week was a busy one for Sofía Gatica. On Monday, she won the global Goldman Environmental Prize for her efforts to protect her children and neighbors from pesticides. On Wednesday, she asked President Obama to investigate Monsanto’s “pesticide poisonings and livelihood harms” in her community...
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Kristin Schafer

This is me. (Let’s Support Each Other)

April 24, 2012
MomsRising does a great job of creating a community of support for women. We at www.ctworkingmoms.com strive to create a similar sense of community and work to foster an environment of respect, honesty and encouragement. We just started a new series based off of our blogger Stephanie Wright's...
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Michelle Noehren

Ann Romney and the Caring Economy: The Politics of Motherhood

April 24, 2012
Post written by: Riane Eisler and Valerie Young Who says partisan politics only results in division, discord and gridlock? After this week’s media frenzy over whether or not Ann Romney was “working” when she raised five boys, a consensus of sorts has emerged. Both Democrats and Republicans agree...
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Valerie Young
Childcare & Early Education

Women and Education: Now More than Ever

April 23, 2012
The 40 th anniversary of Title IX is coming up in June. There is cause to celebrate the advances in gender equity that Title IX has brought to intercollegiate athletics, but the words “athletics”, “sports,” and “athlete” are not even mentioned in the statute. The purpose of Title IX was to open...
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Robert Drago

A Buffet of Latin American Recipes

April 23, 2012
This article originally appeared in the Tiki Tiki Blog . Regret is sometimes a mami’s secret friend. In this particular instance, my regret is having not learned how to cook all my ‘buelita’s favorite dishes. Oh, it’s not that I didn’t like the food! No, no, no, mi’ja. I LOVED the food and was more...
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Monica Olivera Hazelton
Food!

Can we eat some real food please?

April 23, 2012
My oldest daughter is 8 and in 2nd grade. When she first started school, she began in the Montgomery county summer school program which was free for one month. Hallelujah. She was given free breakfast. Another plus. However, when I went to the cafeteria I was a lot less impressed. Now granted, they...
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Alison Crockett
Environmental Health Food!

Eat Every Day Like It's Earth Day

April 23, 2012
Earth Day is a great opportunity to remember and reflect, if only for a moment, on the symbiotic relationship between our planet and its inhabitants. Now, what if we could be present to it every day, and taste daily the beautiful richness it gives our lives? Eating presents us and our families with...
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Maryland has said – now is the time for health equity!

April 23, 2012
It's National Minority Health Month and the Maryland Women’s Coalition for Health Care Reform (Coalition) is working from the principle: Reform. It’s Good for Your Health to advance the mission of health equity in Maryland. Through the successful implementation of the Patient Protection and...
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