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What Kind of Baby Doll Do You Think You Are, Anyway?

April 5, 2011
The controversy over the Berjuan nursing doll underscores that Americans still have a long way to go to accept breastfeeding as normal. If little Maggie wants to play with her baby doll, she will want to feed it somehow, won't she? Traditionally, baby dolls come with little toy baby bottles. But...
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Melissa Bartick

Introducing Food Day!

April 5, 2011
It’s time to fix our broken food system. Over the course of the next six months, we hope to create what will be a huge grassroots mobilization for changing what Americans eat—and what the food industry produces—for the better. Let me introduce you to Food Day, which will be celebrated on October 24.
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Mike Jacobson
Environmental Health

Radiation in Your Children’s Water

April 4, 2011
Radiation now pollutes the drinking water in Tokyo, far from the scene of the ruined power plants. Could that happen in the United States, with our 104 active nuclear power plants, the most of any nation in the world? In fact, it’s already happened, and goes on still, not the outcome of a unique...
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Alice Shabecoff
Environmental Health

Ensuring a Future for My Children

April 4, 2011
( My father, Diego Batista, at one of his favorite fishing spots in Key West, Florida. ) I consider myself to be an optimistic person. I did score a 90 out of 100 in an online happiness survey. As I often joke with friends, it’s the Puerto Rican in me. Did you know that Puerto Rico consistently...
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Elisa Batista
Paid Family Leave Childcare & Early Education Paid Sick Days

March in the Rear View Mirror

April 3, 2011
From Your (Wo)manInWashington blog MOTHERS changing the conversation @ www.MothersOughtToHaveEqualRights.org Women's History Month has drawn to a close, but there's time to sneak in a few comments. In recent weeks, two notable women have died. Elizabeth Taylor left as her legacy decades of activism...
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Valerie Young

When COBRA terminates and you're single with 4 kids...

April 1, 2011
I never thought I'd be one of those 'divorced' women who had to worry about health care after having four children with my partner of 18 years. But this year my COBRA insurance terminates, and I am a lupus survivor and kidney transplant recipient.[gallery] I think I'll probably face some of the...
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Joy Rose
Environmental Health Food!

Some cosmetics companies treat every day like April Fool's Day

April 1, 2011
When we were 12 and 13 years old my girlfriends and I would often troll the cosmetics aisle of our local drugstore looking for new and exciting products to buy with our allowance money. Being a green-minded person even then, I reached for cosmetics I thought were natural, like Aveeno, Herbal...
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Mia Davis

Book Review: "Get Me Out" is a Witty History of Childbirth

March 31, 2011
Here’s a book recommendation for MomsRising readers. “Get Me Out: A History of Childbirth from the Garden of Eden to the Sperm Bank,”(W.W. Norton, $15.95 paperback) by Randi Hutter-Epstein, M.D., is a witty, entertaining work of medical history that also provides practical information that new...
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Dora Wang, M.D.

Happy International Domestic Worker's Day!

March 31, 2011
Dear Friends, Today is International Domestic Worker Day. Over two million domestic workers will go to work around the country today, and with great love and care - they will ensure the health and well-being of our loved ones and our homes. In most of those homes, no one will know it is Domestic...
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Ai-jen Poo

Is Pay Gap Perception as Powerful as Pay Gap Reality?

March 30, 2011
Is the pay gap real? Women think it is...and that alone is a problem for employers.
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Joanne Cleaver

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