When a woman’s body at work is seen as a liability, everyone loses – Mashable
One way to design workplaces that champion equality without further stigmatizing women’s bodies is to create policies that have universal applications, says Vicki Shabo, vice president of the National Partnership for Women & Families, a nonprofit advocacy organization.
How to empower patients with medical data – Spark Radio
We spoke to GetMyHealthData project coordinator Erin Mackay about how taking ownership of digital health records can help patients have more informed discussions with doctors, and empower those patients to be more involved in their treatment plan.
Of This Year’s 353 Abortion Restriction Bills, 70 Percent Are Based On Lies – Slate
More than 70 percent of the abortion restrictions introduced in state legislatures so far this year are based on false information, according to a new report from the National Partnership for Women & Families.
This Is What Paid Leave Looks Like In Every U.S. State – Fast Company
It’s this model that advocacy organizations tend to favor. “Tax credits in our view fall short,” Vicki Shabo, Vice President at the National Partnership for Women & Families, tells Fast Company, “because they are entirely dependent on the employer…and there’s no evidence that they change or incentivize employer behaviors . . . [so] you end up perpetuating the inequality that already exists in terms of access to paid leave.”
The “big data” app that predicts employees’ health – CBS Moneywatch
And pregnancy discrimination charges are increasing, with the number of allegations rising by about one-third during the past decade, according to the National Partnership for Women & Families.
Utah lawmakers hold plan for paid parental leave – Associated Press/Yahoo! Finance
Some states now give paid time off, including California and New Jersey, according to the National Partnership for Women & Families, a nonpartisan organization. “Everybody, no matter who they work for, what job they have, or what their circumstance, needs access to paid leave,” said Vicki Shabo of the National Partnership for Women & Families.
CMS and AHIP’s quest to tame the wilds of healthcare quality measures – Modern Healthcare
Consumer advocate Carol Sakala, director of childbirth connection programs at the National Partnership for Women & Families, agreed that standard measures will help consumers make comparisons and new measures are needed to address gaps in quality reporting.
She called the collaborative a good start and said measure development must continue. More work must be done to fill gaps such as measures of care coordination, shared decisions between patients and doctors, and performance on outcomes reported by patients themselves, Sakala said.
Babies born via C-section may be at risk for health problems, researchers say – San Francisco Globe
In the last 50 years, the number of cesarean births have multiplied by seven, according to Childbirth Connection. In 1965 the C-section birth rate was 4.5 percent. In 2014, 32.2 percent of births were C-sections, making it one of the most common procedures in American operating rooms, according to Childbirth Connection.
23 Years: Celebrating FMLA (and pushing for The FAMILY Act) – Working Mother
That’s why the National Partnership for Women & Families, the advocacy organization that authored the original FMLA law, as well as other groups, has continually worked to improve and expand it.
EEOC Seeks to Require Summary Pay Data From Employers – Bloomberg BNA
The National Partnership for Women and Families in Washington hailed the EEOC’s action as “very welcome” news. With the new data, the EEOC and the DOL “will be much better able to identify and stop wage discrimination of all kinds,” Debra Ness, the partnership’s president, said in a Jan. 29 statement.“This is a bold, important step that will capture salary data from employers that collectively employ more than 63 million workers,” Ness said, adding that there’s “no time to waste” in combating the pay gap.
