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 »
Equal Pay Day 2010 — A Round Up
Posted in Women & Economic Security, Women and Civil Rights, tagged Chris Dodd, equal pay day, Lilly Ledbetter, Marking Equal Pay Day, Paycheck Fairness Act, unequal pay, wage gap on April 22, 2010, | Leave a Comment »
Equal Pay Day — the symbolic point at which a woman’s salary finally catches up to a man’s earnings from the previous year — is a 24-hour observance. However, at AAUW, the issue of pay equity remains an evergreen one as women continue to earn 77 cents on the dollar, on average, compared with men [...]
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