Ending DACA Will Stoke Fear — and Harm Women
Trump is a bully, and he’s picking on young people. But this is not a schoolyard, and the potential for danger is very real.
Category: Family/Family Law
Paid Family Leave Only Works When it Works for All Families
By Hannah Tennies, National Action Program Intern Growing up in a household with a single mother means that time off is hard to come by, let alone paid time off. Without federal Paid Family and Medical Leave only about 13% of private sector workers have access to paid leave in the United States (“The Economics Read more …
“Leaning in” won’t liberate us
The term “lean in” has been used fairly regularly in feminist discourse. It originated in a book published by Sheryl Sandberg that discusses factors that hold women back in the workforce and how women, she says, often hold themselves back. And I largely disagree with her. One of the main ideas in this book (and Read more …
Hobby Lobby Case: ‘About Labor Rights and Religious Extremism, Not Birth Control’
“If people have to go outside their insurance plan to pay for birth control, that’s a healthcare issue, it’s an economic issue and it’s a workers’ rights issue.”–Chitra Panjabi, Membership Vice President of NOW. Read more from Chitra on how Hobby Lobby’s corporate claims come at the expense of workers’ rights.
Women and Children First — Thrown Overboard by the Government Shutdown
But in the real-life disaster that in the Republican Tea Party’s government shutdown, “women and children first” is the order in which victims of the shutdown are selected.
