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Moms and kids tell legislators to give them a “fair shake” in the budget

July 1, 2009
This article is cross posted with permission from NC Policy Watch blog . by Louisa Warren Today, hundreds of MomsRising.org members delivered a message to state legislators: give kids and families a fair shake in their budget negotiations. That means preserving investments in programs like Smart...
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Sarah Francis

The Abyss of Motherhood

July 1, 2009
Sometimes I have the same dream over and over again - I am rushing, always rushing while my child is talking to me and I can’t hear anything he is saying to me and I keep asking him to speak louder and if only he could speak louder I would be able to hear him. Then I wake up in a pool of sweat with...
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Pamela Murphy
Family Economic Security

UPDATED! Help Daniel's mom keep her home

June 30, 2009
On Friday, we heard a story that we felt we had to share with you. It's about Daniel's 84 year-old mom, Irene. Her bank is selling the house she has lived in for 34 years.
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Katie Bethell
Environmental Health

BPA Industry Manipulates Scientific Studies

June 27, 2009
In case you missed it, Newsweek's science editor Sharon Begley wrote a story on how anyone with an agenda can find research to support that agenda. The example she used were companies who make products with the toxic chemical bisphenol A . So-called "BPAs" are found in hard plastic like baby...
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Elisa Batista

What Are Moms Rising Against?

June 26, 2009
One of the lessons of identity politics is that success requires knowing not just what you’re for, but also what you’re against. Blacks are for racial justice and against racism. Women are for gender equity and against sexism. Moms are for ending discrimination against mothers (fair pay, flexible...
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Robert Fuller

Jumping back on the ladder- a conversation with Harvard's Christine Heenan

June 25, 2009
Cross-posted from the Huffington Post Brenda Barnes , now CEO of Sara Lee, has gotten a lot of press because she left the corporate workforce for a decade to spend more time with her children, and recently returned to be CEO of a major company. Barnes is indeed a rare person, and women can make...
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Morra Aarons-Mele

Equality as a backdrop

June 24, 2009
I grew up in Upstate New York, but went to college in Western Massachusetts and moved to Boston thereafter. I fell in love with a city and a state so steeped in history yet so forward-thinking. I started my career in politics and advocacy here. I met my future wife, Cheryl Jacques. I gave birth to...
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Jennifer Chrisler

A Gender Divide on Healthcare Reform?

June 22, 2009
My friend and her husband are getting divorced: three small children and irreconcilable differences. He is a partner at a law firm and earns $800,000 per year. She is a stay-at-home mother. After the divorce, who will pay more for health insurance? As regressive as it may seem, my unemployed single...
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Elizabeth Cox

Millennial Dads Bend Traditional Gender Roles

June 21, 2009
A friend recently gave birth to twins. When I visited them today, she sat feeding one baby a bottle, while dad was bathing the other baby—classically—in the kitchen sink. Does this scene surprise you? Probably not, if you’re under age twenty-nine. According to a recent study by the Families and...
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Nanette Fondas
Childcare & Early Education

What a Girl Wants: Mixed Messages in Twilight

June 20, 2009
When my daughters, now ages 22 and 25, were growing up, I knew better than to forbid them to do something. It’s the quickest way to make that forbidden activity all the more tempting. I find it interesting that Stephanie Meyer’s novel Twilight has an apple on its cover, the original forbidden fruit...
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Carmen Siering

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