My mother told me to get health insurance when she dropped me from my parents’ plan when I was in my early 20s. But I couldn’t afford it. I was finishing my undergraduate degree, and my three-nights-a-week waitressing gig just did not provide me the income to pay for it. Even if I had bought [...]
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My Vote Is for Better Health Care for Young Women
Posted in A Women's Nation, The AAUW Community, Women's Health, tagged AAUW, AAUW Action Network, Cervical Cancer, health insurance, healthcare, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Women's Health on October 12, 2011, | Leave a Comment »
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 »
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 [...]
The State of the Union
Posted in Equity in the News, tagged healthcare, iPad, Paycheck Fairness Act, President Obama, SOTU, State of the Union on January 28, 2010, | 1 Comment »
Yesterday, a national leader stood before America and, in a presentation designed to generate both thought and excitement, proceeded to explain his plan for revitalizing America. But enough about Steve Jobs and the iPad. The other big speech of the day was, of course, President Obama’s State of the Union address. Coming just days after [...]
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 [...]
From the Real to the Ideal: A Woman’s Nation and the Gender Gap for Women in Health Care
Posted in A Women's Nation, Women's Health, tagged awn, gender gap, hcr, health-care reform, healthcare, Linda Brodsky, Real to the Ideal, Sick and Tired, The Shriver Report: A Woman's Nation Changes Everything, womansnation, women's health care, women's healthcare on November 10, 2009, | 2 Comments »
Maria Shriver’s ambitious report, The Shriver Report — A Woman’s Nation Changes Everything, has grabbed our attention and focused us on a national priority of the highest importance. Women’s equality is, I believe, an even greater priority than health care reform, because closing the gender gap is necessary for the success of a sustainable, productive [...]
What $20 Gets You
Posted in Women's Health, tagged cancer, health-care reform, healthcare, hospice, insurance on November 4, 2009, | 7 Comments »
The day my sister came home from the hospital after her first breast cancer surgery, I went to the local drugstore to pick up her initial dose of medicine. I had her insurance information and a $20 bill in my pocket. The pharmacist told me the total was “seventeen fifty.” Great, I thought, I can [...]
Caring about Women and Maternal Health
Posted in Women's Health, tagged healthcare, maternal health, Paycheck Fairness Act, women's healthcare on July 31, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times focused his column yesterday on the need to attend to women and maternal health on a global scale. He has an excellent way of calling attention to the social barriers that exist for women everywhere — as well as the limitations and levels of societal control placed over [...]
Madam Speaker of the House
Posted in Voter Education, Women's History Month, tagged education, enviroment, healthcare, Madam Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, Trinity College, women's history on March 25, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is a woman who has broken through a political barrier by serving as the first female speaker of the House of Representatives. She attended an all-women’s college, Trinity College (renamed Trinity Washington University), in Washington, D.C. In the early 60s she married Paul Pelosi and later moved to California. The Pelosis moved [...]
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