"m-maternity-paternity-leave" Articles & Blogs:
Real Men Know How to Take Paternity Leave
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(WOMENSENEWS)--What does it mean to be a real man at the office?
It means being a workaholic, says Joan Williams, and that has devastating consequences for women, men and families.
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How the economy is hurting mothers
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From The New York Times:
Here's a pop quiz: Which of the following would violate federal employment law?
1. Laying off a pregnant woman.
2. Laying off a woman on maternity leave.
Pencils down. The answer is "neither."
So long as employers can make ...[Read on] |
How the economy is hurting mothers
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From The New York Times:
Here's a pop quiz: Which of the following would violate federal employment law?
1. Laying off a pregnant woman.
2. Laying off a woman on maternity leave.
Pencils down. The answer is "neither."
So long as employers can make ...[Read on] |
Show Senator Kyl Maternity Care is Good for All Boy and Girls
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by Judy Waxman, Vice President for Health and Reproductive Rights, National Women's Law Center “First of all, I don’t need maternity care. And so requiring that to be in my insurance policy is something that I don’t need and will make the policy...[Read on] |
Feminism, fathers and valuing parenthood
| Cross posted on PhD in Parenting.
On May 17, I participated in the Fem 2.0 chat on twitter. The topic of discussion was mommies and feminism. We talked about a lot of things, but one thing I said towards the end of the chat seemed to resonate with a l...[Read on] |
Executive Moves: Donna Langley becomes Co-Chair at Universal
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I guess we should look at this moment as a glass half full moment. Big congrats to Donna Langley the former president of production who recently returned from maternity leave to get promoted to a big new job co-chair of Universal Pictures.
While I thin...[Read on] |
Afghan's 'Bravest Woman' Calls on U.S. to Leave
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(WOMENSENEWS)--Surrounded by powerful men twice her age, Malalai Joya, then 27 and the youngest person elected to the Afghan parliament, raised her hand to speak. She denounced the warlords and drug traffickers in the government and stood up in favor of w...[Read on] |
Health Care Reform Has a Woman's Face
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by Jenifer Rajkumar, Fellow, National Women's Law Center
With the misinformation spread about health care reform throughout the summer and the Senate Finance Committee about to release a bill as early as tomorrow, it’s more important than ever at ...[Read on] |
Women in Theater: Achieving Gender Parity Symposium
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The Women’s Initiative presents,
“Women in Theater: Achieving Gender Parity,”
December 4, 2010 at The Players Club
16 Gramercy Park South (at 20th Street),
New York, NY
1:00pm to 5:00pm.
The Symposium will feature keynote speaker Julia Jordan...[Read on] |
What Women Want: Equal Benefits for Equal Premiums
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by Candace Webb, Outreach Manager, National Women's Law Center
The “What Women Want: Equal Benefits for Equal Premiums” hearing convened by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee yesterday largely focused on the twin ...[Read on] |
Has (Women’s) Tennis Gone to the Dogs?
| The U.S. Open Tennis Tournament starts tomorrow. After reading “Pets Are the Portable Part of a Tennis Player’s Entourage” in the August 30, 2009 New York Times online, I winced internally. Even before reading the story, I thought to myself, “I be...[Read on] |
Paid Sick Days are Good for Moms And Kids
| The Connecticut Paid Sick Days proposal has been a controversial and highly discussed proposal. It truly is a difficult time to place additional burdens on our business community, and the proponents of the legislation have worked very hard to address mo...[Read on] |
The Daily Show gives Olivia Munn a tryout
| I don’t know how much I like the fact that we know that the Daily Show is “trying” out a woman — Olivia Munn — to be a correspondent on the show. Based on its abysmal track record, this show should be on a mission to add not just one woman, but...[Read on] |
New Moms, Older Moms, and Health Reform
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by Brigette Courtot, Policy Analyst, National Women's Law Center
To kick off NWLC's recognition of National Women’s Health Week, and in light of yesterday’s Mother’s Day holiday, I’ve been considering how health reform will improve mothers' heal...[Read on] |
Female Bullying or Just Another Attack Against Successful Women?
| The media loves a fresh angle that undermines women’s hard earned success. The New York Times Business section (1/11/09) ran an article, “A Sisterhood Of Workplace Infighting” by Peggy Klaus. Ms. Klaus, a leadership consultant, writes a...[Read on] |
Health Reform: Good for Mothers, Good for Families
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by Julia Kaye, Health Policy Associate, National Women's Law Center
Cross-posted from Say Ahhh!
There is a common misconception that all low-income people -- or, at least, all poor parents -- are eligible for Medicaid. It may derive from a mistaken c...[Read on] |
Clinton Global Initiative: Investing in Girls and Women
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President Clinton opened the second day of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Annual Meeting by reciting damning statistics about women's economic marginalization, including that only 30% of the world's workforce is made up of women. Women do 66% of worl...[Read on] |
Leave Ellen Page Alone!
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NY Mag’s Vulture (which by the way has some of the most provocative and great reporting about pop culture) pissed me off earlier this week with their piece on Ellen Page’s “asexual” wardrobe in Inception.
First, that whole term “asexual attir...[Read on] |
Facebook's Face-Lift
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Apparently Facebook users are just now deciding that they don’t want the whole world to know what they’re doing at all times. I was under the impression that it wasn’t THAT difficult to restrict users from seeing certain areas of your pa...[Read on] |
Unanswered Questions Concerning the Mean Girls 2 Trailer
| We were not aware that a sequel to 2004 film Mean Girls was in the works. In fairness, we had not thought to check for one, as the conclusion of the ur–Mean Girls film, Mean Girls, did not leave us with very many unanswered questions. This new trail...[Read on] |
Liberia Innovates to Save Lives of New Moms
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MONROVIA, Liberia (WOMENSENEWS)--A small group of reporters huddled around Roseline Broh, a nurse midwife supervisor, at the entrance to the labor ward at Redemption Hospital here. The facility provides free services and some of its 200 beds hold ...[Read on] |
Women filmmakers win big at Tribeca
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Austrian filmmaker Feo Aladag won the Best Narrative Feature award for her debut feature When We Leave. The film’s star Sibel Kikilli was also named best actress.
Here’s what the jury said about the film:
When We Leave examines one woman’s strug...[Read on] |
Child Care and Family Leave Essential for Working Women
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by Karen Schulman, Senior Policy Analyst, National Women's Law Center
Two recent articles in the Wall Street Journal and in The Economist highlight the expanded participation of women in the workforce—the proportion of the workforce accounted for b...[Read on] |
Joan Jett and Cherie Currie Sue Label over Charity CD
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Why are Joan Jett and Cherie Currie suing Main Man records over a Runaways tribute album slated for release later this month? According to Main Man's site, portions of the proceeds of Take It or Leave It, which includes 2 cds full of prominent rockers cov...[Read on] |
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