Alzheimer’s disease is not typically mentioned as a pressing issue women face today. But the recently released Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Takes on Alzheimer’s provides ample evidence that this needs to change. Women are disproportionately affected by Alzheimer’s, directly and indirectly, and discussion of the disease as a women’s issue needs to come to [...]
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Alzheimer’s Disease: A Women’s Issue
Posted in The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, Women and Civil Rights, Women and Work, Women's Health, tagged Alzheimer's, baby boomer, Caregivers, Family and Medical Leave Act, FMLA, healthcare, Shriver, unequal pay on November 10, 2010, | 1 Comment »
Making Ends Meet
Posted in Women & Economic Security, Women and Work, tagged budget, Caregivers, paid sick days, pay equity, pay gap, single mothers, wage gap on May 26, 2010, | 1 Comment »
Budgeting is hard. From the fist-time job holder or the family of four to the country as a whole, all of us must weigh our choices and make difficult decisions. In the economic recession that we are starting to recover from, we have had to decide how to invest in our futures while we pay [...]
Supporting Caregivers for National Family Caregivers Month
Posted in The AAUW Community, Women and Work, tagged Caregivers, caregiving, More Magazine, More.com, National Family Caregivers Month on November 20, 2009, | 2 Comments »
November is National Family Caregivers Month. In honor of these selfless individuals, I have written a blog for More.com, “Caregivers Deserve Year-Round Applause,” which focuses on the wide range of challenges facing the nation’s estimated 50 million caregivers. I share statistics, talk about AAUW’s policy recommendations, and close with a quote from Rosalyn Carter, who [...]
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