In a round-table discussion with Women’s Enews, top aides of two powerful Democratic senators shared their pro-woman legislative wish list. And, Republican Snowe calls on her colleagues to moderate their views and pass women-friendly legislation.
Pro-choice religious groups and women’s advocates vow to work hand-in-hand to keep abortion legal, saying pro-choice religious institutions must speak out vigorously and demonstrate that moral people can be both deeply religious and pro-choice.
Women ignore the debate on proposed Social Security privatization at their peril. Nearly three-fourths of 85-year-old Social Security recipients are female and women are twice as likely as men to spend their later years in poverty.
Any efforts to reform Medicare, to address the prescription drug and long-term care needs of seniors must be measured by their impact on women. Quite simply, if reform doesn’t work for women, it just doesn’t work.
The current partisan bickering and the 50-50 split in the next Senate make it critical that true bipartisanship prevail in the 107th Congress. Here’s a rare story of bipartisan success: two women who teamed up to help battered immigrant women.
The road to equality may be paved with good intentions, but it’s still long and uneven. For some it’s a rut, for others it’s fit for a horse-drawn cart, for still others it’s a crowded thoroughfare, and for the most fortunate, a superhighway.
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