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04/03/09

When I became a mother, I always thought that I could trust products that I purchased for my children. Now, every day, it seems, a new scientific study emerges showing chemical exposure in products we once thought to be safe. How did this happen?

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Stephanie Hendricks

Environmental Health Health Care

04/02/09

I'd love to feed my kids knowing that the food and water I give them are safe. You? But I can't. Why? Because the safeguards in this country are so weak that there's rocket fuel in infant formula. I mean, how bad can it get?

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Lisa Frack

Environmental Health

04/01/09

Open Flexible work gives parents the ability to decide how, when and where they work, regardless of their level in an organization. Examples of Open Flexible work are: flexible scheduling; telecommuting/virtual work; job sharing; career customization; taking babies to work; part-time work options and quality on-ramps for parents who take time away from work.

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Janet Hutton

04/01/09

I’m Hannah Sassaman – an organizer and a MomsRising member who lives with a joyful extended family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I spent most of my childhood outside of Springfield, Massachusetts, though, where my family had to work every day with my mom’s serious illnesses.

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Hannah Sassaman

03/29/09

My daughter Minju has a peanut allergy. So, my wife and I are used to reading labels to avoid products with peanuts.

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Dara ORourke

03/27/09

Click here to read the whole post from Your (Wo)man in Washington®.

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Valerie Young

Paid Family Leave

03/27/09

Why does the reality of everyday, routine care for birthing women diverge so radically from best-evidence practice?

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Jackie Levine

03/26/09

Cross-posted at MotherTalkers. Just to show you it isn't only the unemployed who lack health insurance, one in five U.S. workers are uninsured , according to a study covered by the Associated Press.

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Elisa Batista

03/26/09

Gloria Steinem reaches the commanding age of 75 this month. The following extracts from a speech she made in May 2007, show the conceptual link between feminism and the mothers' movement. Click here to continue reading this post from Your (Wo)man in Washington®. Happy Birthday, Gloria. The work continues.

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Valerie Young

03/26/09

It’s no surprise to the vast majority of us who have both a job and family responsibilities that something’s not working at work. The American workplace is perfectly suited for the American workforce…of the 1950s. Even today, when 46% of the U.S. workforce is made up of women and 81% of women have children by age 44, most good jobs in the U.S.

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