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11/28/11
Once a year or so, a study or trend piece comes out about why women are bad to work for. Like Good Morning America’s “ Bad Female Boss? She May Have Queen Bee Syndrome. ” Or The Daily Mail’s “ Men are the best bosses: Women at the top are just too moody (and it’s women themselves who say so). ” Or...
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11/28/11
By Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff Executive Director/CEO Healthy Child Healthy World www.HealthyChild.org I’m so inspired by last week’s Grist profile on Mari Rose Taruc , an environmental activist and a mother of two asthmatic kids who saw the connection between pesticides and health first hand when she...
11/28/11
What is a California election without some good old-fashioned scapegoating? We Californians are innovators in so many ways: home to the first personal computer, the nation’s first recycling program and ground zero for the Americans with Disabilities Act. But we also have this nasty history of...
Elisa Batista's picture
11/26/11
On Wednesday a new poll [PDF] was released that shows that people who are most likely to need paid family leave are least likely to be aware of programs that provide it. Specifically, California registered voters were surveyed to assess their awareness of the state’s groundbreaking Paid Family...
Nanette Fondas's picture
11/24/11
I asked my daughter, " What's your favorite thing about Thanksgiving? " 

 She answered in one exuberant word, " Eating! " 

 Eating. While many celebrate by eating together on Thanksgiving, far too many children in our nation ( nearly 1 in 4 ) live in families who are struggling to put food on the...
Kristin's picture
11/23/11
At an all-day seminar last week, I listened to university researchers discuss this startling question: Are we poisoning our children? Hard data points to a resounding, very sobering "yes".
Kristin Schafer's picture
11/23/11
I asked my daughter, "What's your favorite thing about Thanksgiving?" She answered in one exuberant word, "Eating!" While many celebrate by eating together on Thanksgiving, far too many children in our nation (nearly 1 in 4) live in families who are struggling to put food on the table because of...
Kristin's picture
11/22/11
By Marcia D. Greenberger, Co-President, National Women's Law Center Forty years ago today, for the first time in its history, the Supreme Court held that a law that discriminated against women violated the Constitution. In Reed v. Reed , a unanimous Court struck down an Idaho law requiring the...
Thao Nguyen's picture
11/22/11
Emily Butera is the Senior Program Officer for Detention and Asylum at the Women's Refugee Commission Maribel was driving in Virginia with her one-year-old child when she was pulled over by a police officer, who asked to see her driver’s license. A Mexican citizen living in the U.S. without a visa...
Emily Butera's picture
11/22/11
The holiday season is almost upon us. And oh, how things seem to speed up, and expectations fall like rain. Family meals, holiday parties, school events and fundraisers, gifts for friends and family.... it can get overwhelming even for the most zen like among us. It is even easier to grab processed...
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