"At a time when individuals, in many states, can still be fired or denied housing because of their sexual orientation or gender identity, and women and LGBTQ people can face discrimination when they are engaging in activities as simple as shopping, commuting to work...
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A Historic Tuesday in the Fight for Fair Pay
by Portia Wu | Mar 29, 2011 | Fair Pay
It’s fitting that the landmark pay discrimination case, Wal-Mart v. Dukes, is being argued before the Supreme Court today, Tuesday, March 29th. Equal Pay Day, which marks how far into the year women must work to match the amount paid to men in the previous year, falls on a Tuesday.
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Right Over Might: The Women of Wal-Mart Fight for Fair Pay
by Sarah Crawford | Mar 28, 2011 | Fair Pay
Tomorrow, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Wal-Mart v. Dukes – the high profile class action case involving 1.6 million women who have worked at Wal-Mart.
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The Affordable Care Act at One
by Judith L. Lichtman | Mar 25, 2011 | ACA
This week is the first anniversary of the Affordable Care Act – the greatest advance for women’s health in a generation.
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Anniversary a Time to Commit to a New Wave of Workplace Reforms
by Vicki Shabo | Mar 24, 2011 | Paid Sick Days
Locked doors. It’s one of the many reasons that 146 workers – mainly young immigrant women – died in a fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City 100 years ago today. Even though great progress has been made since then, workers today are trapped by a different kind of locked door: public and workplace policies that too often are unfair and force workers to make impossible choices between their caregiving responsibilities and their economic security.
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Keeping the Pressure on in Wisconsin
by Vicki Shabo | Mar 22, 2011 | Paid Sick Days
Today, we celebrate victory at the Wisconsin Court of Appeals: The court ruled unanimously to uphold Milwaukee’s paid sick days ordinance, which sets a minimum floor of paid sick days for workers in the city.
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Let’s Not Reverse Our Progress on Stopping HIV/AIDS
by Laura Hessburg | Mar 10, 2011 | Reproductive Rights
Today is National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, when we should all pause to remember that the HIV/AIDS epidemic is still shaping and taking too many lives, in the United States and around the globe.
Paid Sick Days Committee Victories in Connecticut and Philadelphia
by Debra L. Ness | Mar 7, 2011 | Paid Sick Days
The push for paid sick days took a significant step forward this week as lawmakers in Connecticut, Illinois and Philadelphia held public hearings on the impact that establishing a paid sick days standard could have on working families, businesses and public health.
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Too Big to Be Held Accountable?
by Sarah Crawford | Mar 1, 2011 | Fair Pay
The Women of Wal-Mart Deserve Their Day in Court to Challenge Unfair Pay
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Just When You Think You’ve Seen It All
by Debra L. Ness | Feb 28, 2011 | Reproductive Rights
Sometimes I think there’s not much that can surprise me. But last week proved that theory wrong: the U.S. House of Representatives voted to prohibit federal funds for health care services provided by Planned Parenthood, and eliminate funding for all Title X family planning services, which are the sole source of health care for millions of low-income and uninsured women in this nation.
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A Frightening Look at D.C.’s Restaurant Industry
by Vicki Shabo | Feb 14, 2011 | Paid Sick Days
Just in time for Valentine’s Day — the highest grossing day of the year for restaurants — the Restaurant Opportunities Center of Washington, D.C., (ROC-DC) has released a comprehensive analysis of workplace policies in the city’s restaurant industry.
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San Francisco Paid Sick Days Law Is A Proven Success
by Vicki Shabo | Feb 10, 2011 | Paid Sick Days
A new study released today shows that San Francisco’s Paid Sick Leave Ordinance (PSLO) — the first citywide paid sick days standard in the country — has been proven a success.
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What, No Tiara?
by Christine Bechtel | Feb 8, 2011 | Digital Health
Recently, a reporter conducted an analysis of the people considered to be “the most powerful” in the field of health information technology (IT).