“Women bring a different life experience to the table. All of our differences make the judicial conferences better. That I’m a woman is part of it.” — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Did you know that for 140 years, there were no women in the federal judiciary? Think about it. It wasn’t until [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Health-care’
Multiple Sclerosis: Charting a Different Journey
Posted in The AAUW Community, Women and Civil Rights, Women and Work, Women's Health, tagged disability, disbility rights, Health-care, Job Accomodations Network, Martina Navratilova, MS, multiple sclerosis, National Multiple Sclerosis Society, paid sick leave, Work-Life Balance, World MS Day on May 25, 2011, | 5 Comments »
A lot can change over a very short period of time. For nearly a half million people nationwide and 2.1 million worldwide, this is one of those simple, powerful, and sometimes painful truths we know all too well. Today is World MS Day, a day designated to raise awareness about a chronic, often disabling disease [...]
Trending Away from Choice in Colorado
Posted in The AAUW Community, Voter Education, Women and Civil Rights, Women's Health, tagged abortion, Action Fund, Angle, ballot measures, Colorado, Constitution, elections, Health-care, pro-choice, rape, vote on November 2, 2010, | Leave a Comment »
Today, Americans across the country will arrive at the polls and participate in the democratic process by casting ballots for senators, representatives, and county sheriffs (among others). Some voters will also have the opportunity to vote on ballot measures, which are questions or initiatives that can — if passed by the general public — establish [...]
On the Road to Recovery
Posted in The AAUW Community, Voter Education, Women & Economic Security, Women and Work, Women's Health, tagged Affordable Care Act, children, health insurance, Health-care, healthcare.gov, parents on September 23, 2010, | Leave a Comment »
Today marks an important milestone for those who have struggled with access to adequate health care — it’s the first day that certain provisions of the recent health care reform will come into effect. As of today, these important changes will take effect: Young people will be able to remain on or return to their [...]
It Matters to Men, Too
Posted in Women & Economic Security, Women and Work, tagged Equal Pay, Health-care, Paycheck Fairness Act, retirement, wage gap on June 15, 2010, | Leave a Comment »
We’ve all heard it. Women earn just 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. As men, we may instinctively feel empathy for our female friends and casually support the cause for paycheck fairness. But I challenge us all to consider the civil rights-era truism that an injustice against anyone is an injustice against everyone. [...]
Workplace Rules in the House of Medicine: A Difficult Choice When Health Is at Stake
Posted in A Women's Nation, Women and Work, tagged A Woman's Nation, Family Friendly for All Families, Health-care, The Shriver Report: A Woman's Nation Changes Everything, women in the workplace, work-life, work/life on February 2, 2010, | 3 Comments »
More on the Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation (www.awomansnation.com) The focus of the chapter “Family Friendly for All Families” dispels an important myth: that having the same rules that men have is enough to successfully bring women into the workplace. Women have different needs, different schedules, and different priorities than men do, so “what is [...]
Stop Stupak National Day of Action
Posted in The AAUW Community, Women's Health, tagged capitol hill, Health-care, middle class abortion ban, reproductive rights, Stupak amendment on December 1, 2009, | 1 Comment »
FROM THE AAUW ACTION NETWORK: On Wednesday, December 2, AAUW and coalition partners will join forces for a National Day of Action to protest the Stupak amendment, anti-choice legislation that would jeopardize women’s access to complete and safe reproductive health care coverage. Join us in Washington, D.C. to lobby Congress and rally on Capitol Hill to [...]
Imagine! Ideas to Reach the Ideal
Posted in A Women's Nation, Women and Work, Women's Health, tagged Health-care, woman's nation, women in health care on December 1, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
It takes a lot of chutzpah to offer up my concept of the model of perfection when it comes to women in the health care workplace. Why? Because not only is the ideal highly subjective, in many cases it is thought to exist only in the mind or to be imaginary. So what is my [...]
Women Deserve Better than the Status Quo
Posted in The AAUW Community, Women's Health, tagged Health-care, healthcare, lobby corps, Michelle Obama, wage gap, White House on November 19, 2009, | 3 Comments »
Several AAUW Lobby Corps members in the Washington, D.C. area had the opportunity to attend a White House event on health care and older women last week, and I accompanied them to take photographs. It was my first visit to the White House, and I was really excited! We went through the security checkpoint, then [...]
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