"poverty-inequality" Articles & Blogs:
New Resources on Women's Poverty and Health Insurance
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by Joan Entmacher, Vice President for Family Economic Security, and Judy Waxman, Vice President for Health and Reproductive Rights, National Women's Law Center
More than one in eight women and nearly one in five children lived in poverty in the Unite...[Read on] |
Social networking is getting socailly conscious!
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According to a new game on Facebook, American 2049, social networking can be socially conscious! The new game is centered on such topics as forced sex work and prostitution, racial profiling, segregation, abortion issues, LGBTQ injustic...[Read on] |
Women's Poverty Increases; Insurance Decreases
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by Joan Entmacher, Vice President for Family Economic Security,
and Judy Waxman, Vice President for Health and Reproductive Rights,
National Women's Law Center
Imagine being a single mother to a 5-year-old daughter, losing a stable job, and becom...[Read on] |
Women’s equality by 2020?
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This post was submitted by Jean Qiao, WCF Communications Fellow
Are you a passionate woman committed to ending gender inequality? Do you know a phenomenal woman who has made a true impact in her...
This is a content summary only. Visit Women and Politic...[Read on] |
A Powerful Noise - The Impact of One Voice
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Take part in an exclusive International Women’s Day event on March 5, 2009, featuring the acclaimed documentary film, A Powerful Noise, followed by a live town hall discussion to 450 movie theatres.
Town hall panelists include former U.S. Secretary of...[Read on] |
Microfinance Could Be Hazardous For Teens
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UNITED NATIONS, New York (WOMENSENEWS)-- Microfinance might be a panacea for women's poverty, as many claim, but concern is growing in the nongovernmental community about such loans to teens. Several in the field warn that microfinance loans to teen girls...[Read on] |
U.N. to Ask $169 Billion Maternal Health Question
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UNITED NATIONS (WOMENSENEWS)--The U.N. this week will be considering plans to save 16 million women's lives by 2015, as part of a major meeting focused on poverty- reducing goals. The big billion dollar question is not how it can be done but whether the U...[Read on] |
The commodification of female empowerment
| Have daughters supplanted sons as the repository of hope in tough economic times?
New York Times contributor Peggy Orenstein has noticed a trend across a whole range of sectors over the last several months from big-box stores to high-end fashion to wirel...[Read on] |
How a sports brand can create awareness through viral video
| One of the best viral videos I’ve seen coming from a sports brand is associated with a powerful advocacy campaign created by the Nike Foundation called the Girl Effect.
Although the campaign’s mission is not overtly obvious, the interactive video (se...[Read on] |
Empowering Tanzanian Women: New Women's Bank Encourages Women to Take Control of Finances
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The African country previously required numerous forms of documentation
and a high minimum deposit for women to start bank accounts. Now,
banking is a lot easierTanzania Bank for Women | Today 11:30 am
Women in Tanzania now have a whole new array of ban...[Read on] |
Photo exhibit displays violence against African women
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UNIFEM and YOPS collaborated to present a gallery of photographs and displays to reveal many different forms of violence against women all over Africa- particularly in nations torn apart by war and poverty. From AllAfrica.com :
[The exhibit] comprised ...[Read on] |
Christine Brennan: Title IX Not to Blame for "Poor Decision-Making of Athletic Directors"
| Christine Brennan, sports reporter and columnist for USA Today, was recently interviewed by Real Clear Sports. Brennan's consistent support and advocacy for Title IX was reflected, in particular, in her explanation for why Title IX is not to blame for cu...[Read on] |
Jennifer Aniston is not destructive to our society
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A big Friday fuck you to Bill O’Reilly for calling Jennifer Aniston destructive to our society and diminishing the role of dads when making comments in promotion of her new film The Switch.
The film is about a woman who decides to get pregnant with a...[Read on] |
Gender Stereotypes No Longer Belong In Marriage
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by Rachel Peck, Fellow, National Women's Law Center
Wednesday, in Perry v. Schwarzenegger, a federal district court judge in California struck down Proposition 8, a voter enacted amendment to the California Constitution which declared that marriage cou...[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] |
Next Step on the Road to Reform: Negotiating Differences Between the House & Senate Bills
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by Lisa Codispoti, Senior Counsel, National Women's Law Center
We are closer to adopting health reform than ever before in history. Now that the Senate passed their health reform legislation, the next step on the road to reform is for Senate and House...[Read on] |
MacArthur Genius Awards-2009
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The Macarthur Foundation has annointed its list of “geniuses” for 2009 and happily its split 50/50.
Here are the women recipients (captions from AP):
Lynsey Addario, 35, photojournalist, Istanbul, Turkey. Creating a visual record of major conflicts ...[Read on] |
Catching Up With Single Mothers
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by Katherine Gallagher Robbins, Senior Policy Analyst, National Women's Law Center
In today's NY Times Bob Herbert highlights the increasing economic anxiety American families are facing. New analysis shows that economic security, the knowledge that yo...[Read on] |
Serena inaugurates second Kenyan school
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Always a trailblazer. Always doing good things. Always going the extra miles.
Just over a year after visiting Kenya to open the Serena Williams Secondary School in Matooni, Kenya, Serena Williams returned to the country to follow up on her humanitari...[Read on] |
Female jockey Julie Krone is a “Freak”
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I was delighted to read that award-winning filmmaker Katherine Brooks (”Loving Annabelle,” 2006, and “Waking Madison,” 2009) is making a film based on legendary female jockey Julie Krone. The film is called “Freak,” which refers to a racing...[Read on] |
Economic Data Show Women Facing Continued Hardship
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By Valerie Norton, Policy FellowNew data released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics confirms continued job loss and economic hardship – a story that has become all too familiar over the last year. Overall, unemployment rose to 9.8% and 263,000 job...[Read on] |
Domestic violence: one more reason for health care reform
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I just received this email from the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice. I’m embarrassed to admit that I didn’t already know this:
Eight states (Idaho, Mississippi, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, and Wyo...[Read on] |
Kim Clijsters, Motherhood & Feminism
| From Your (Wo)manInWashington blog
From the New York Times about Kim Clijsters winning the Women’s Singles US Open Championship after having a baby 18 months ago:
The Clijsters narrative is not just about an underdog’s comeback, but about the ...[Read on] |
Clinton Global Initiative: Hillary Clinton on Food Security
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I have had the opportunity to see a lot of really powerful speakers at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Annual Meeting. Talk about internalized patriarchy: I was most excited to see Presidents Obama and Clinton speak, and though I was excited to see Se...[Read on] |
Fair pay and athletics: The gender disparities continue to loom
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This post is part of an initiative by the National Women’s Law Center in honor of Equal Pay Day — “voices are rising up across the web in support of fair pay for women.” All day, they’ll be promoting blog posts about fair pay and tweets with the...[Read on] |
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