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Joining a global effort to fight HIV/AIDS in rural Africa

November 18, 2009
Penelope is an 18 year old girl from a remote region of northern Zambia. She lost both of her parents to AIDS and had to drop out of school at age 13 to support herself and her siblings in the wake of her parents’ deaths. She, like 83 percent of girls in sub-Saharan Africa are not in secondary...
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Janet Shah

Play Gender Bias Bingo!

November 18, 2009
"When I started my faculty position, I occasionally would bring our 8-month-old to work. On several occasions my colleagues (male), would say, 'So, you're babysitting today, eh?" If our son had been with my wife, no one would have said she was babysitting, not being a parent. It discouraged me from...
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Joan C. Williams

What's so Entertaining about Violence?

November 18, 2009
Last night I saw a movie that started out with the rape and murder of a woman and her child. I wish I had been warned—why can’t there be a RAPE-FREE or RF rating on movies, along with PG14, R and X? Earlier this month, the Parents Television Council released a report saying that depictions of...
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Amy Cross
Food!

S.T.O.P.--An Organization Supporting Victims Suffering From Long-term Consequences of Foodborne Illness

November 18, 2009
Recent reports have highlighted what S.T.O.P. has known for a long time: that the long-term consequences of foodborne illness are under-reported, under-diagnosed and not given nearly enough public health attention. The negative impact of this lack of attention comes in two forms. First, proper...
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Donna Rosenbaum
Environmental Health

Pumpkin pie and pesticides? New iPhone App for healthy food lovers.

November 18, 2009
Personally, I like my cranberries and pumpkin pie chemical-free. Pesticide Action Network's new What's On My Food? iPhone App makes the invisible problem of pesticides more visible, showing which pesticides are found on what foods, and how those chemicals can harm human health.
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Kristin Schafer
Childcare & Early Education

Most dramatic mad dash EVER!

November 18, 2009
Almost every parent has a story about trying to find childcare or the mad dash to pick your child up on time. But this one really takes the cake: Sgt. Kimberly D. Munley, mother of two, and a first responder at the scene of the shooting at Fort Hood last week, was shot three times while trying to...
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Sarah Francis

Women's Happiness Isn't A Dead Deer on the Dining Room Table

November 17, 2009
"He comes back with dinner, and he has shot it! They are happy. American women don't have anyone hunting for them--that's the real problem," wrote author Michael Silverstein in the October 26th issue of the New Yorker . That's what he's got: Men hunting for dinner? Well then. Over the last month,...
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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Opposition to the Stupak-Pitts Amendment

November 17, 2009
Prior to the House Healthcare Reform legislation passing last week 220-215, the House voted on the Stupak-Pitts Amendment which restricted the use of federal and private funds to cover abortions. The Democrats in Congress took a gamble that in order to be able to garner sufficient votes to pass the...
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Mable Yee
Paid Family Leave Health Care

Continuing the Drumbeat for Breastfeeding Rights.

November 16, 2009
Breastfeeding rights is a big topic with MomsRising members. In fact, as we were developing this blog to update our members and allies on the current status of breastfeeding legislation, the issue again came to the attention of the MomsRising team when several MomsRising members expressed concern...
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Dionna Humphrey
Family Economic Security Paid Sick Days

Survivors of domestic violence, stalking and sexual assault need paid sick days

November 14, 2009
Domestic violence, stalking and sexual assault pose a great risk to far too many Americans--and the numbers of victims are increasing, not decreasing. A minimum standard of paid sick days, or "paid safe days," would provide victims with job-guaranteed paid time off when they need it most--to leave...
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Katie Bethell

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