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10/02/12

Every year The Center for WorkLife Law, which I direct, runs a leadership academy for women law firm partners . One key message we send is that sometimes what it takes to make partner is different from what it takes to rise in the partnership. “I’ve noticed that the women work so exceptionally hard...

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Joan C. Williams

Environmental Health Politics & Policy

10/02/12

Why we need our Presidential candidates to talk about climate change Personal appeals and more than 160,000 signatures for climate change to be included in Oct. 3 Presidential debate, delivered to The NewsHour offices. This summer, the United States experienced record-high temperatures and...

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Gloria Pan

10/02/12

“We need to accelerate the pace of progress… It’s time. Women are ready.” Mary Hughes, founder of the 2012 Project said this. And our team at Women’s Funding Alliance couldn’t agree more! For the last 30 years, Women’s Funding Alliance has been a catalyst for change here in Washington State. We do...

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Sara Reyerson

Health Care

10/02/12

It’s not surprising that women are still most responsible for figuring out what to do about family healthcare problems. Studies suggest that we make about 80 percent of healthcare decision for our families and are most likely to be caregivers when a family member falls sick. From day one, we...

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Cristine Russell

MomsVote

10/02/12

Dear Romney/Ryan Campaign, Recently, while appearing on "Fox News Sunday," vice presidential candidate and Congressman Paul Ryan declined, yet again, to explain the specifics of the Romney/Ryan tax plan. The claim is that Romney/Ryan tax reform will be "revenue neutral," because the tax cuts they...

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Kelly Singleton Dalton

Paid Sick Days

10/01/12

This week, workers all across the country will be tweeting that question to candidates for office at all levels, asking them to support this basic workplace standard or explain why they will not. At a time when more than 40 million hardworking Americans can't earn any paid sick time to use when...

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Debra L. Ness

10/01/12

With school supply shopping for three daughters at three different schools safely behind us, there’s one last item I’m actually excited about. It isn’t on a single school supply list and doesn’t have a power cord, but it’s essential for 21st Century learning - which is why I wanted to share this...

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Homa Tavangar

09/29/12

Now that roughly half the paid workforce is female, pregnancy issues surface regularly at work. You may have thought that the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (“PDA”), passed in 1978, would have settled all this already. You’d be wrong. First of all, new data from the U.S. Census Bureau show that 62...

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Valerie Young

Food!

09/28/12

My NYSHEPA colleagues and I worked hard for years to get menu labeling laws passed locally in New York. Over 60 percent of our state is now covered by menu labeling ordinances. We also worked hard to get a federal menu labeling law passed in 2010, so that all consumers would see calories posted, on...

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Nancy Huehnergarth

09/27/12

Here's a fundamental truth: As rising moms, we must never leave other mothers behind. My sheer commitment to make sure no mother lacked the support she needed if she chose to breastfeed led me to find my life's purpose. In 2007, I created a non-profit organization, Black Mothers’ Breastfeeding...

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