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Rhodes Scholar Mothers Face Inequality Too

A great deal of our popular discourse on “successful women’’ is centered around the alleged question of “work-life balance.’’ Can a professional woman, at the top of her career, really, ever, "have it all?’’ For many, the words “Rhodes Scholar” represent Success with a capital ‘’S.’’ As a woman –...

Hopeful Signs Greet Mom Returning from Maternity Leave

As we approach the one-year anniversary of President Obama signing the Children’s Health Insurance Program reauthorization, think of all those babies born in the last year who were given a better chance at living a healthy life due to this important legislation. I applaud Governor Culver and other state lawmakers who had the courage and leadership to use CHIP and Medicaid funding to increase their investments in families struggling to weather the current economic storm.

Speak Up About Designing Out Toxins

It's virtually impossible to stay on top of current events and not see how toxic chemicals are impacting the health of our environment and our bodies. For me, it’s all overwhelming and difficult to digest at times. And I can’t stop thinking about how the toxic chemicals that are hidden in the...

"The Health Case for Reforming TSCA," New Report from Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families

In Slow Death by Rubber Duck: The Secret Danger of Everyday Things , a new book by Environmentalists Rick Smith and Bruce Lourie, there’s a scene where Smith, caught in the middle of a chaotic two-kid-household bedtime routine, is stopped in his tracks by the discovery of flame retardants in his...