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"The Price of Motherhood" Revisited

July 13, 2010
From Your (Wo)manInWashington blog MOTHERS changing the conversation @ www.MothersOughtToHaveEqualRights.org As July 12 is my birthday, I'm turning the keyboard aboard over to our latest MOTHERS member, Laura LaMonica of Stella, North Carolina. She's a freshly minted Ed.D. and recently just...
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Valerie Young
Environmental Health

Toxic Chemicals Lobby - Exclusive Leaked Footage!

July 9, 2010
The secret is out: the toxic chemicals industry is designing a PR campaign for survival! Bisphenol A in baby bottles, water bottles, and food cans. Formaldehyde in furniture. Phthalates in air fresheners, soft plastics, and fragrances. The manufacturers of these chemicals are not taking the push...
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Janelle Sorensen

Here's why we're mad

July 9, 2010
"I'm mad. And, truthfully, what I'm most mad about is that we're even here in the first place. Women are still making just 77 cents to a man's dollar. Yet we find ourselves having to prove, and prove again, that pay equity should be a priority -- and in a recession no less when the paychecks of...
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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Health Reform: Benefiting Women in Small Businesses Right NOW

July 9, 2010
by Brigette Courtot , Senior Policy Analyst, National Women's Law Center So many good things are coming out of our new health reform law that it's tough to keep track of it all! In fact, the earliest benefits are now several months old, like the small business tax credit . The tax credit, which...
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Thao Nguyen
Health Care

A Dad's Experience With Hiring A Doula

July 9, 2010
As a dad, I strongly encourage parents to have a doula present at the birth, especially if it’s in the hospital.
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Dana Glazer

Know-it-all: What’s New with the Health Care Reform Law

July 7, 2010
Today ends my know-it-all days. For the past few months, after the passage of the new health care reform law, friends and family members have come to me as a source of information about what the new health care reform law means to them. Sure, I didn’t have all the answers, but I had the answers at...
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Thao Nguyen
Family Economic Security

Congress-Don't Leave America Hanging!

July 6, 2010
Congress, can you answer this question? When I heard that Congress had failed to pass the extension of unemployment insurance benefits last night, all I could think about was the question posed earlier this week from a mom in Indiana: "How will my family live now that the unemployment is going to...
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Donna Norton

WashingtonPost: Must women leaders dress like 'vanilla' to succeed?

July 3, 2010
What to wear to work? How much freedom do we really have - check out our new Washington Post " On Leadership " column.
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Sharon Meers
Environmental Health

To Vaccinate Your Teenage Daughter, Teenage Son, Yourself, Or Your Baby ...Or Not?

July 3, 2010
Part 1 As soon as a teenage girl walks into her pediatrician’s office, he will suggest another vaccination, to be delivered through a series of shots spaced out over six months. This time the vaccine is Gardasil, intended to protect her from being infected by the human papilloma virus, HPV, which...
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Alice Shabecoff
Health Care

How does health reform help moms? Get the inside scoop!

July 1, 2010
It's time again for the annual Fourth of July family picnic. Picture this: You're minding your own business eating your corn on the cob when over walks your cousin (the one who's nine months pregnant and in a very bad mood because it's much too hot). She remarks, "The country is going to hell in a...
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Donna Norton

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