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04/01/11

When we were 12 and 13 years old my girlfriends and I would often troll the cosmetics aisle of our local drugstore looking for new and exciting products to buy with our allowance money. Being a green-minded person even then, I reached for cosmetics I thought were natural, like Aveeno, Herbal...

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Mia Davis

03/31/11

Here’s a book recommendation for MomsRising readers. “Get Me Out: A History of Childbirth from the Garden of Eden to the Sperm Bank,”(W.W. Norton, $15.95 paperback) by Randi Hutter-Epstein, M.D., is a witty, entertaining work of medical history that also provides practical information that new...

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Dora Wang, M.D.

03/31/11

Dear Friends, Today is International Domestic Worker Day. Over two million domestic workers will go to work around the country today, and with great love and care - they will ensure the health and well-being of our loved ones and our homes. In most of those homes, no one will know it is Domestic...

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Ai-jen Poo

03/30/11

Is the pay gap real? Women think it is...and that alone is a problem for employers.

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Joanne Cleaver

Paid Family Leave Childcare & Early Education Paid Sick Days Open Flexible Work

03/30/11

What if we just stopped having babies? You know, like an ANTI-labor labor movement. This may sound like a silly, made up argument, but right now, women in their childbearing years are "on strike" in something like than 90 countries in Europe and Asia and it's creating serious problems.

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Katrina Alcorn

Childcare & Early Education

03/30/11

From Your (Wo)manInWashington blog MOTHERS changing the conversation @ www.MothersOughtToHaveEqualRights.org A young mother wrote me some time ago asking if there were any Mothers’ Centers on college campuses. She wanted to connect with students who were also raising children, facing coursework and...

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Valerie Young

Realistic & Fair Wages Family Economic Security

03/29/11

Written with Ariane Hegewisch , Study Director at the Institute for Women's Policy Research. The Supreme Court heard arguments on Tuesday to decide whether the lower courts rightly certified the women at Wal-Mart as a class. Wal-Mart’s own salary data shows that on average women earn $1,100 per...

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Clark Jennifer

Childcare & Early Education Food!

03/29/11

The 2010 election was a mandate for one thing: creating jobs and strengthening our economy for the long term. I heard that message loud and clear from New York families in every corner of our state, and I am working with my colleagues in Congress on solutions that will help create good-paying jobs...

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Senator Kirsten Gillibrand

Open Flexible Work

03/28/11

Only a cynic would find irony in the Wal-Mart Foundation's $2 million donation to Dress for Success. I'm a cynic, and after you read this, you will be, too. I love Dress for Success . I love the idea of outfitting women returning to the workforce with flattering, confidence-building interview and...

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Joanne Cleaver

Childcare & Early Education

03/28/11

There is hope for education innovation in the U.S. Earlier this month I had the great honor of joining several hundred people committed to innovation in education in various forms, for the TEDxNYED conference. The speaker roster , folks behin d the scenes and participants I met (like Nathan Dudley...

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