HERvotes Blog Carnival On the anniversaries of the 1920 passage of the 19th Amendment and the 1963 March on Washington, which are this week, MomsRising joins our colleagues in working to mobilize women voters around preserving women’s Health and Economic Rights (HERrights) ...
Think You’re Covered? Think Again. by Alicia Gay, ACLU Liberty Center If you were faced with the decision of having an abortion, would your health insurance cover it? This is a question that many women have probably never considered. It’s a health care procedure that most people just ...
Lending Programs Give Struggling Small Businesses a Helping Hand Heidi Kallet had to sign away her life, so to speak, to achieve the American Dream. Despite the dismal economy, the Virginia small business owner was ready to open her second stationery store and hire some new staff. Although Heidi’s business was ...
Black Women Speak Up! Tell Congress To Stay Out Of Our Wombs Make no mistake about it: Planned Parenthood is under attack. With not even two months under its belt, the new Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed legislation that would eliminate federal funding, including Medicaid, for the ...
Have You Had Enough? I Know I Have! The passage of health reform brought many wonderful new protections and benefits for Americans. Unfortunately, for women, these protections and benefits came with a price tag. States now have the choice to either allow abortion coverage to be ...
Equal Pay for Moms Now She’d called me into her office, this lady boss of mine, newly charged with running what was then the 6th-largest newspaper in the country. Honestly, I thought I was in trouble—somebody always had a problem with the black girl who insisted on writing ...
Brooklyn Grandmother Takes a Stand *You know Mary Ward* She is in all of our families. She is in every community. She’s that neighborhood matriarch who knows everyone and everything about the community from way back when. Mary Ward has a lot in common with so many mothers and ...
Economic Policy: It’s Personal The economic meltdown battered many Americans, but women and communities of color have long sustained the impact of an imbalanced financial market. Hard working women are deeply familiar with the enormous racial and gender wealth gap in America. ...
Discrimination Against Pregnant Women and New Mothers Is Not a Work-Life Balance Issue Last week, Judge Loretta Preska of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York dismissed a class action suit alleging that Bloomberg L.P. discriminated against pregnant women and mothers returning from maternity leave. In her ...
