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07/16/10

All over the world, women are still dying in childbirth. A woman dies every single minute. In the majority of countries it is usually due to the absence of good medical support. In the USA, a staggering number of women still deliver in the ER without having received any pre-natal care. There is also a disturbing trend that too much technology and interference is leading to creeping maternal mortality rates in America. Christy Turlington's documentary, No Woman No Cry raises some of the issues. Women need to be heard. To be heard requires understanding and knowledge. In this, women in America are very much like their sisters in Bangladesh, Tanzania and Guatemala, the locations of Turlington's stories.

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Chrysula Winegar

Environmental Health

07/16/10

The beaches are crowded. The fireworks have come and gone. And everywhere I go, the smell of grills, chlorine, and perpetual sunscreen follows me. It’s summer time; Sweltering, smack-in-the-middle of the season summer time. The summer holidays aren’t the only things to have come and gone. Summer...

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Claire Moshenberg

Health Care

07/15/10

About a decade ago I received a distraught call from my high school friend, Mark, telling me that his son had just been diagnosed with cancer at his one year old well child visit with the pediatrician. A decade later, he called to say that his son’s life had been saved by this checkup. He also...

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Donna Norton

Environmental Health Health Care Open Flexible Work Paid Family Leave

07/14/10

Many of our employers and coworkers remain woefully ignorant about breastfeeding; without realizing it, they put us in situations that can be thoroughly humiliating.

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Katrina Alcorn

07/14/10

What is the pay disparity between a single mother and a man? What percentage of fathers are primary caregivers? Think you know the answers to these questions and more, then come to this year's Netroots Nation Parents Caucus in Las Vegas! Unlike previous years, Sarah Granger from MOMocrats and I...

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Elisa Batista

Childcare & Early Education Family Economic Security Health Care

07/13/10

The euphoria of the final World Cup match is over and so many people around the world don't know what to do with themselves. Summer 2010 has been marked by one nation after another facing off in the stunning World Cup, with the entire world (especially the Americans, more than ever before in the...

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Homa Tavangar

07/13/10

From Your (Wo)manInWashington blog MOTHERS changing the conversation @ www.MothersOughtToHaveEqualRights.org As July 12 is my birthday, I'm turning the keyboard aboard over to our latest MOTHERS member, Laura LaMonica of Stella, North Carolina. She's a freshly minted Ed.D. and recently just...

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Valerie Young

Environmental Health

07/09/10

The secret is out: the toxic chemicals industry is designing a PR campaign for survival! Bisphenol A in baby bottles, water bottles, and food cans. Formaldehyde in furniture. Phthalates in air fresheners, soft plastics, and fragrances. The manufacturers of these chemicals are not taking the push...

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Janelle Sorensen

07/09/10

"I'm mad. And, truthfully, what I'm most mad about is that we're even here in the first place. Women are still making just 77 cents to a man's dollar. Yet we find ourselves having to prove, and prove again, that pay equity should be a priority -- and in a recession no less when the paychecks of...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

07/09/10

by Brigette Courtot , Senior Policy Analyst, National Women's Law Center So many good things are coming out of our new health reform law that it's tough to keep track of it all! In fact, the earliest benefits are now several months old, like the small business tax credit . The tax credit, which...

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