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07/20/12

The security guards at New York City Hall were overwhelmed, not only by the 107 degree heat index, but also by the constant bustle of hundreds of women equally hot about the conditions of working women. “Only five at a time!” they yelled to the crowded line desperate to get out of the sun and...

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Monifa Bandele

Open Flexible Work

07/20/12

What’s stunning about the reaction to Anne-Marie Slaughter’s article “ Why Women Still Can’t Have it All ” and the news that new Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is pregnant is the size and scope of the reaction itself. And I can explain that reaction with a screen shot. Those two tweets. The first one she...

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Kristin Maschka

Open Flexible Work

07/20/12

When I speak to groups of young women and men, more and more frequently the question I get isn’t “Can I have it all?” it’s “Should I have kids at all?” Young women and couples watch as friends have children, and see new mothers and fathers completely stressed out juggling work and family, marriages...

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Kristin Maschka

07/18/12

Cindi Love is the mother of a son with HIV and a sister to a sibling who died of AIDS. She remembers with emotion how challenging it was to see her brother die this way, while living in West Texas, a small, conservative city where people spoke in hushed tones when addressing the formidable disease...

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Julie Rhoad

Paid Family Leave Open Flexible Work

07/18/12

This blog was cross-posted from Womenstake , the National Women's Law Center's blog. On Monday, the news broke that a pregnant woman is now leading a Fortune 500 company—an important and exciting milestone. Before being appointed CEO of Yahoo this week, Marissa Mayer disclosed her pregnancy to...

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Liz Watson

Open Flexible Work

07/18/12

Why do women themselves say that women “Can’t Have it All ?” We say it because, as one mother told me, the phrase resonates as being “Shockingly, earthshakingly true.” We use you “Can’t Have it All” because it reflects a reality, our frustration with the impossible goal of trying to be both June...

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Kristin Maschka

Paid Family Leave

07/17/12

At any point in their lives, workers may need to take time off to care for either a new child or a sick family member. While we have state and federal laws to protect workers from losing their jobs or benefits when they take leave, the leave time is mostly unpaid. Unpaid leave hurts a family's...

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Maria Elena Durazo

07/17/12

Trying to help one child become bilingual is a lot of work. Trying to teach two kids, I thought, was going to be twice as much work. I’m starting to believe that I might be wrong. Here are the reasons why: 1) When I was trying to teach my first-born Japanese, I often felt like I was talking to...

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Hiragana Mama

07/17/12

While members of Congress waste time naming post offices and devising ways to get seniors to pay for billionaire's tax breaks through cuts in Medicare and Social Security, other important business is slipping through the cracks. Specifically, if the Violence Against Women Act - signed by President...

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Martha Burk

07/16/12

Middle class families deserve to be heard in Congress – heard and listened to. They deserve to know that the programs their families rely on, from Pell Grants, to Medicare, to Social Security, will continue to be there for them. They deserve a democracy that lives up to the one they were promised,...

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