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Rally for the Climate- bring your kids!

May 15, 2009
If you care about your kids future, I bet you care about global warming too. And with good reason: our kids are going to be in hot water unless we do something quick. Good thing we've finally got a President that really gets it – like really gets it. In fact, just a few months after that historic...
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Beth Doglio
Childcare & Early Education

My Day at a Legislator's Office

May 15, 2009
My name's Joan, and I live in Lynwood, CA. I've never visited a legislator's office before, but I decided to take the plunge when I got the email from MomsRising about bringing Lifesaver candies to a local member of the CA Assembly. I was a little nervous at first, but it turned out to be a lot of...
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Joan Hall

Female Bullying or Just Another Attack Against Successful Women?

May 15, 2009
How many times do we hear stories that point accusatory fingers at women, deflecting attention from the true problems -- unequal pay, entrenched promotional practices that block women from the highest echelons in the political and corporate arenas, feeble sick leave and maternity leave policies, a lack of childcare subsidies for working mothers, and last but not least, the media's biased coverage?
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JamieW
Childcare & Early Education Environmental Health

Would You Let Your Daughter Be a Green Beauty Queen?

May 13, 2009
I’ve never been a big fan of pageants. The social and gender implications are a bit disturbing to me. Add in the environmental and health impacts of conventional cosmetics and the textile and fashion industry and the whole event becomes antithetical to almost every value I hold dear. Needless to...
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Janelle Sorensen

What Would You Say to the First Lady?

May 13, 2009
On June 7 I attended the event that is now plastering the news: the First Lady Michelle Obama spoke out on work life issues. For example: New York Times and ABC News . You may have even heard some of the lines from her speech at Corporate Voices for Working Families—that she is a 120 percenter,...
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Ellen Galinsky
Families & The Federal Budget MomsRising

The Crisis of American Families & the Bias Against Mothers

May 13, 2009
Shocking but true: There is a tragic lack of support for American families and a deep bias against mothers. A full quarter of U.S. families with children less than six years old live in poverty. Nine million children are without healthcare coverage and many more are under-insured. Fourteen million...
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Paid Family Leave Environmental Health

On Being a Toxic Avenger

May 12, 2009
I don’t know if you’ve ever seen the campy, B-movie, The Toxic Avenger , but the plot line is eerily analogous to many modern moms. The movie in a nutshell: weakling janitor is taunted and falls into a vat of toxic waste, which turns him into a radioactive monster with superhuman strength who...
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Janelle Sorensen
Paid Family Leave Open Flexible Work

Michelle Obama on Work-Life Balance

May 12, 2009
Cross-posted at MotherTalkers . Glad to see we have a first lady focused on the plight of working families. In a recent speech before corporate executives, Michelle Obama addressed the internal conflict faced by many working parents trying to have it all -- or simply make ends meet -- and why...
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Elisa Batista
Family Economic Security Realistic & Fair Wages

What's $1.00 minus .78 cents?

May 12, 2009
What's $1.00 minus .78 cents? It's the difference between your salary and the salary of your male counterparts. If you're a woman of color, you can subtract at least an additional 10 cents, and for single mothers you can take away even more . That's right: Just sixty cents to a man's dollar. Seem...
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Dionna Humphrey
Paid Family Leave

7 million views! The Mom of the Year video has officially gone viral. It's a national mom uprising!

May 10, 2009
Michelle Obama isn't the only one flexing her right to bare arms. The millions of women proclaiming their friends as Mom of the Year this past week is nothing short of a national mom uprising. This week 7 million people viewed the MomsRising.org MomsRising Mother of the Year Award customizable...
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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

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