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Who is in charge of your maternity care?

01/29/11
From Your (Wo)manInWashington blog MOTHERS changing the conversation @ www.MothersOughtToHaveEqualRights.org Womens Enews reports that maternity wards and obstetric units are closing across the country. Depending on where you live, and whether or not you have health insurance, you could be far away...
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Valerie Young

Wal-Mart Supreme Court Case Highlights Difficulty of Challenging Pay Disparities

01/27/11
By Lenora Lapidus, Director, ACLU Women's Rights Project Today, business and advocacy groups filed briefs in the Supreme Court in a lawsuit brought by women employees of retail giant Wal-Mart. In 2001, a group of women brought a lawsuit against the retailer charging that the company engaged in...
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Health Care

California’s Health-e-App Public Access: Good News For Children Otherwise Threatened by Budget Cuts

01/27/11
Amidst the generally gloomy news out of California about our budget crisis and cuts to vital services, there is one very bright spot: California is a step closer to insuring 700,000 children who go without coverage today with its recent launch of public access to Health-e-App. For the first time,...
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Wendy Lazarus
Environmental Health

Poison Air for the New Year

01/27/11
I was outraged to learn last week that some powerful politicians and lobbyists are gearing up to make it easier for polluters to poison our air. Do they really think this is a fight they can win? Mother love is fierce. All moms know one thing: having a child cracks your heart wide open. We’ll do...
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Dominique Browning
Health Care

Healthcare Question of the Week: Does healthcare reform mean seniors will suffer?

01/26/11
Q: I supported health care reform and was so elated when it passed, however . . . Now I hear of cuts in payments to doctors for Medicare. Many doctors refuse Medicare patients already, but with more cuts there will be no medical care for seniors. Supplement plans won't cover anything that Medicare...
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Michealle Gady
Paid Family Leave Open Flexible Work

The Career Mystique: An Interview with family scholar Stephanie Coontz Dads and Balance

01/26/11
As mothers, we talk a lot about balance. It’s an elusive concept—that sort of stands for being tired and overwhelmed. But even that conversation is highly unbalanced. It’s not a full discussion, because we don’t talk about balance for fathers nearly as much. Don’t both parents deserve to find a...
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Amy Cross
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Sandwich Generation in a Pickle?

01/25/11
Re-posted from Working Mother Magazine While all working women would benefit from access to paid sick leave, the latest data from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) shows that 44 million workers in the U.S. did not have access to a single paid sick day during 2010. A growing segment...
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Michelle Noehren

A Portrait of Unemployment, Foreclosure, and Family Discord

01/24/11
Below is the second installment of a five-part series titled Too Little to Save , in which the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) highlights a family and describes their struggles with foreclosure. A husband, a pregnant wife, and a five-year-old son: this is the Nunez family of northwestern Georgia...
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Janis Bowdler
Environmental Health

Why we need to educate consumers about the potential dangers of triclosan.

01/24/11
The American Cleaning Institute (ACI) released polling results this week showing that 75% of moms would be “angry” if the government took antibacterial soap off the market. Wait a minute…the government is taking antibacterial soap off the market? No, of course not. But ACI may have led these moms...
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Cassidy Randall

A Gender Revolution in Economics

01/24/11
From Your (Wo)manInWashington blog MOTHERS changing the conversation @ www.MothersOughtToHaveEqualRights.org Last week I saw a column in Market Watch written by Paul Farrell, about impending changes in access to wealth and power. It's a fascinating theory and I've been preoccupied by it for a week...
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