"Twenty-eight years ago, our nation took a critical step towards creating a more robust, equitable workplace for all employees when the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) was signed into law. Although the FMLA helped transform the workplace, nearly 80 percent of U.S....
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What Do Mothers Need? Tools to Make the Best Health Care Choices
by Debra L. Ness | May 9, 2014 | Maternal Health
As Mother’s Day approaches, we’re making it easier for women to manage their families’ health by providing tools and information to help them use their health insurance to access affordable, quality care and to make the best possible health care choices.
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What Do Mothers Need? Fair Pay
by Debra L. Ness | May 8, 2014 | Fair Pay
It’s no surprise these days that women’s wages are essential to their families and our economy. That’s why, as our #WhatMothersNeed week of action continues, we’re talking about the urgent need for fair pay.
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What Do Mothers Need? Family Friendly Workplaces
by Debra L. Ness | May 7, 2014 | Paid Sick Days
For a country that claims to value families, the United States does little to show it when it comes to the workplace.
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What Do Mothers Need? An End to Pregnancy Discrimination
by Judith L. Lichtman | May 6, 2014 | Pregnancy Discrimination
Mother’s Day is this weekend. And at the National Partnership, we have joined with our allies, members of Congress and activists across the country to take a week-long look at what mothers truly need this year – beyond messages of gratitude.
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What Do Mothers Need? Quality Maternity Care
by Maureen Corry | May 5, 2014 | Maternal Health
As Mother’s Day approaches, we renew our commitment to improving the quality of maternity care so women can enjoy safe, satisfying pregnancies and births, and babies can have a healthy start in life. We ask you to join us.
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Increased Transparency in Health Care: Good News for Patients and Families
by Debra L. Ness | Apr 29, 2014 | Choosing Health Equity
In good news for patients and families, the federal government recently took two important steps to increase transparency. These actions exemplify a changing health care culture that recognizes the need for openness.
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Making History for Women and Families
by Debra L. Ness | Apr 11, 2014 | Reproductive Rights
At the National Partnership, we couldn’t be more inspired to make history on the issues of paramount importance to women and their families.
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The Ryan Budget: Bad for Our Health
by Debra L. Ness | Apr 9, 2014 | ACA
Budgets reflect priorities. Last week, House Budget Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) released the House Republican budget. If adopted, it would take health insurance away from millions of Americans, turn Medicaid into a block grant, and put seniors’ access to comprehensive Medicare coverage in jeopardy.
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Let’s Leave Mad Men-Era Pay Policies in the Past
by Debra L. Ness | Apr 7, 2014 | Fair Pay
There is a reason many of us bristle at the thought of what the nation’s workplaces were like for women during the Mad Men era: the almost universal recognition that it was a time when sexism was rampant, when women were routinely devalued, disrespected and blatantly discriminated against.
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Helping Pregnant Women Become Partners in Their Care
by Maureen Corry | Mar 28, 2014 | Maternal Health
The quality of maternity care in our country needs improvement. While transforming the maternity care system will take time, there is progress to report.
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When You Marginalize Women’s Health, You Sanction Inequality
by Sarah Lipton-Lubet | Mar 28, 2014 | ACA
This week, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in two cases brought by for-profit corporations challenging the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) birth control benefit, which requires that health plans include coverage for contraception – a basic health service that 99 percent of women use at some point in their lives.
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Fulfilling the Affordable Care Act’s Promise to Women and Families
by Debra L. Ness | Mar 23, 2014 | ACA
The ACA has already begun improving the lives of women and families across the country, but we still have work to do.