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Hoa Nguyen, an editorial intern at Women’s eNews, is a Vietnamese native and a rising junior studying journalism at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts.
Care economists are trying to change how people in the U.S. think about caring services for everyone; children, elderly, people with disabilities, people with medical problems. But is the country ready for such a holistic approach to national budgeting?
Family leave laws, which have been moving forward locally across the country, drew national attention at both parties’ conventions. But with a federal bill languishing in Washington, the focus is on congressional elections and coalitions working at the grassroots.
The group that has been spontaneously trolling the Indiana governor for his anti-abortion extremism since March just spawned a copycat Twitter account, Tampons for Trump.
With live music and storytelling, the girls animated the memories of five women who were silenced: Sandra Bland, Joyce Curnell, Kindra Chapman, Ralkina Jones and Raynette Turner.
The Orlando shooting at the Pulse nightclub this month raised issues ranging from terrorism and Islamophobia to gun control and who is allowed to donate blood.
Among those celebrating was a young woman who, in a court briefing, described her own abortion. “I knew what was best for my family,” she said, her voice shaking, shortly after the ruling came out June 27.
The college’s graduation ceremony on Sunday became the latest forum for expressing outrage at a case that former football star Brian Banks, wrongly imprisoned for five years on rape charges, describes as “a case of privilege.”
Fifty-three years later, a persistent gender wage gap leaves the door open to other legislative efforts and has spawned such annual rituals as Equal Pay Day. This year, mothers’ equal pay day was May 16.