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10/03/11

Are your children getting enough time and space to play in school? Sadly, despite numerous studies proving that play is vital to children’s learning and health, schools across the country are slashing recess; piling on homework; and banning tag, soccer, and even running on the schoolyard. It’s time...

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Kerala Taylor

10/03/11

From Your (Wo)manInWashington blog MOTHERS changing the conversation @ www.MothersOughtToHaveEqualRights.org I got a letter from a reader who was up in the middle of the night stewing over praise heaped on men when they are seen to be caring for their children. Her frustration practically leaps off...

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Valerie Young

10/01/11

One month after the California Legislature sent a bill to the Governor to protect incarcerated women from being shackled during pregnancy, the State Sheriffs’ Association has decided to oppose the bill, according to a news update from Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice (ACRJ). Although the...

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Rachel Roth

Environmental Health

09/30/11

If you’ve been following the Comer Bien series --a project of the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) , the largest national Latino civil rights and advocacy group in the U.S.--you know by now that Latino kids are going hungry at unacceptable rates and, at the same time, experiencing record levels...

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Kara Ryan

09/30/11

Have you ever had to choose whether you would keep a roof over your family’s head versus paying for medical insurance? I hope not. One woman did have this dilemma and told first lady Michelle Obama about it. Tina Tchen , Michelle Obama’s chief of staff, shared the story last night during the White...

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Christy Jones

Health Care Open Flexible Work

09/30/11

By Galen Sherwin, Staff Attorney ACLU Women's Rights Project Women should not be forced to choose between breastfeeding their babies and pursuing a legal education — right? Wrong — at least according to the Law School Admissions Council (LSAC), the organization that administers the LSAT. This...

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Roger Baldwin

Paid Family Leave

09/30/11

Post Written by Michelle Noehren for WorkingMother.com Working Mother Media recently launched their campaign to gain paid parental leave in the United States by 2015 . In honor of this important campaign I’ve taken to a little poetic doggerel...

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Michelle Noehren

09/29/11

My son is a champion dawdler. When I'm trying to get out the door for something important, putting on his coat can become a 15 minute dance. So I've become an expert dawdler-stopper. Now, when a four-year-old dawdles it's mildly frustrating. But when Congress dawdles while they should be creating...

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Sarah Francis

Food!

09/28/11

We have just launched a brand new online project to shine the spotlight on school lunches across the world! In order to demonstrate what is really on the lunch tray and start an honest conversation about state of school food we are asking people to eat lunch in their school, take a snapshot, and...

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Jamie Oliver

Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days

09/28/11

By Ariela Migdal, Senior Staff Attorney, ACLU’s Women Rights Project More than 30 years after Congress passed the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, employers still engage in two kinds of pregnancy-related sex discrimination. First, they discriminate outright against workers who get pregnant — firing...

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Roger Baldwin