HERvotes Blog Carnival: Reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act
by Emily Alfano, National Council of Jewish Women For the eighth #HERvotes blog carnival, our coalition of women’s groups is joining forces for the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s 2010 National Intimate Partner and Sexual Viol ...
HERvotes Blog Carnival: What Health-Care Reform Means to Women
By Cindy Pearson, co-founder of Raising Women’s Voices for the Health Care We Need For the tenth #HERvotes blog carnival, we’re celebrating the second anniversary of the new health-reform law, the Affordable Care Act, or ACA. Why are women so excited about the ACA? Well, for a start, the law has alr ...
HERvotes Blog Carnival: Tell Congress to Reauthorize VAWA
by Eleanor Smeal, Feminist Majority Foundation For the eleventh #HERvotes blog carnival, we’re joining together to urge the Reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). Domestic violence results in over two million injuries every year. Three women die every day in the United States as t ...
HERvotes Blog Carnival: Economic Security
by Terry O’Neill, National Organization for Women In time for Mothers Day, the 12th HERvotes blog carnival is dedicated to getting the word out about economic security for women, especially in their retirement years. Women need better benefits — not cuts — under social safety net ...
HERvotes Blog Carnival: National Women’s Health Week
By Cindy Pearson, co-founder of Raising Women’s Voices for the Health Care We Need For the 13th #HERvotes blog carnival, we’re celebrating National Women’s Health Week. The federal government launched National Women’s Health Week ten years ago in an effort to improve women’s health by building awar ...
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HERvotes Blog Carnival: National Women’s Health Week
By Cindy Pearson, co-founder of Raising Women’s Voices for the Health Care We Need For the 13th #HERvotes blog carnival, we’re celebrating National Women’s Health Week. The federal government launched National Women’s Health Week ten years ago in an effort to improve women’s health by building awareness about things like exercise, healthy eating and the [...]
Get your women’s health checkup today. It’s covered!
By Lois Uttley Overdue on your mammogram or Pap smear? Trying to quit smoking or lose weight? Thinking about having a baby? It’s National Women’s Health Week. What better time to make an appointment and get caught up on the health care you need! Many women’s health services are now covered by our health insurance [...]
My Time, Intellect, Skills and Labor are Worth Less than Those of My Male Peers? Really? Yes, Really.
By Anny Bolgiano, Intern, Coalition of Labor Union Women My mother, a former forest fire fighter, reiterated to me from the earliest age possible: You can go into whatever profession you want. Thanks to her, I grew up with uninhibited dreams for the future. Then I went off to college, and in a basement classroom [...]
HERvotes Blog Carnival: Economic Security
by Terry O’Neill, National Organization for Women In time for Mothers Day, the 12th HERvotes blog carnival is dedicated to getting the word out about economic security for women, especially in their retirement years. Women need better benefits — not cuts — under social safety net programs. The economic slump in both the U.S. and [...]
Making a Vital Lifeline More Secure for Women
by National Organization for Women In a time of economic hardship, Social Security is a lifeline that keeps hundreds of thousands of women from falling into poverty. In 2010, an astonishing 46 percent of elderly unmarried women and 58 percent of elderly unmarried women of color relied on Social Security for 90 percent of more [...]