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October 27, 2009
Dear members and readers: EngageHer.org received the following email regarding a National Call to Action Day today Tuesday October 30 to support real healthcare reform. The Women of Color United for Health Reform is a very important collaboration of key multicultural women's organizations are...
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Mable Yee
Health Care

Mother’s Kettle Corn & the American Marketplace

October 23, 2009
I travel out of town for work for many weeks out of a year, so whenever I am in Los Angeles, I feel like I am rushing to squeeze as much out of the limited days I have in the office. I do that so that I can spend special time with my children. And, when we can, we make sure to stop by the farmer’s...
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EunSook Lee
Open Flexible Work

Reality Check: Women Want Work/Home Equality and Flexibility

October 23, 2009
No doubt The Shriver Report , “A Woman’s Nation Changes Everything,” meant to stir up debate and discussion. Hoopla has surrounded the news that women have just about reached parity with men by comprising 50% of the paid workforce; and that women and men agree on much about their evolving roles as...
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Nanette Fondas
Childcare & Early Education

Early education our kids deserve, in 140 characters or less

October 23, 2009
Earlier this week, Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid was photographed wearing his MomsRising pacifier pin—evidence of exactly how powerful moms can be. When enough women come together and make their collective voices heard, politicians will listen. With so much at stake for women, families and...
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Ashlee Tran

"It just... makes my heart hurt..."

October 23, 2009
Imagine what it'd be like to get up early each morning, apply to every job opening possible, not get any responses, care for a two-year-old daughter, and know that your last unemployment check will come on the 31st of this month. Your very last check. That's Rebecca's story.
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Sarah Francis

Sick Kid? How do you cope?

October 23, 2009
Many of us have had to decide whether to send a sick child to school (thinking maybe full of tylenol they might make it to the end of the day...) or taking a day off at work to stay home with them. But sometimes the hoops we jump through can get downright ridiculous. I spoke to a woman in...
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Katie Bethell

The New Normal: Die Childless At Thirty

October 21, 2009
When I was writing my book Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict in the late 1990s, I was hoeing a lonely field. Feminism was all about domestic violence, sexual harassment, pornography. Work-family issues were just...dowdy. Much has changed, and it's exciting to have talented and...
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Joan C. Williams
Health Care

We Told You So, Moms Are Powerful!

October 21, 2009
You asked, Congress listened! In response to MomsRising messages to Congress last week, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a primary architect of the healthcare reform plan, asked to be the first member of Congress to be photographed wearing the MomsRising Pacifier pin to show that he also won...
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Julia Goodman

Insurance Company: Rape Survivor? Nope, We Won’t Take Her

October 21, 2009
By Amanda Stone, Volunteer, National Women's Law Center “Nope, we won’t take her.” This is what insurance companies in Florida said when asked whether they would provide insurance coverage to a hypothetical applicant who had survived rape. Let’s back up a few steps. First, who was asking the...
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Thao Nguyen

The 30% Solution

October 20, 2009
From Your (Wo)manInWashington blog Author Linda Tarr-Whelan unveiled her new book, " Women Who Lead the Way ", at a recent congressional briefing. Under the shadow of the Capitol dome, she explained her "30% solution" to problem-solving and decision-making. When women occupy 30% of any entity...
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Valerie Young

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