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Robin Hindery

Robin Hindery

Robin Hindery is a reporter and editor based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Labor

After Big Wins, Fight for $15 Organizers Widen the Agenda

By: Robin Hindery | April 20, 2016

The campaign is picking up energy from the high-voltage presidential primary process and organizers say they are starting to emphasize unionizing and such quality-of-life issues as housing and early childhood education.

Economic Policy
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Momentous Year Ahead for Paid Leave, Fueled by 2015

By: Robin Hindery | January 12, 2016

In his State of the Union address a year ago, Obama called for action on paid leave. Advocates say that after a game-changing 2015 a rising tide of initiatives is spilling into election-year politics.

Jane Crow

California Project Quietly Battles Maternity Risks

By: Robin Hindery | November 30, 2015

As California bucks the U.S. trend in worsening maternal health, a project focused on two major risks–obstetric hemorrhage and preeclampsia–is gaining notice. Next year it will start targeting unnecessary C-sections among first-time mothers.

Maternal Health
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National Initiative Tackles Rising U.S. Maternal Deaths

By: Robin Hindery | January 4, 2015

It starts with a focus on such preventable killers as obstetric hemorrhage, preeclampsia and blood clot embolisms. “The goal is that every hospital in the country should implement maternity safety bundles; a standard set of best practices,” says a doctor leading the effort.

Equal Pay
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San Francisco Aims To Close Pay Gap

By: Robin Hindery | December 8, 2014

Supervisor David Campos introduced the legislation in the hope it will have national influence on income inequality policy. A source of San Francisco’s divide between “haves and have-nots,” he says, is the gap in how men and women are being paid.

Crime & Law

Ecuador Women’s Prison Called Hell on Earth

By: Robin Hindery | July 1, 2005

After a year in a prison under Ecuador’s indefinite pretrial detention system, one woman managed to return to the United States to tell the tale of what she saw and experienced. A college activist is doing what she can to improve those conditions.

Seven Who Tap Power to Provoke Change

By: Robin Hindery | January 4, 2005

Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi, Jane Randel, Vicki Ruiz and Virginia S�nchez Korrol, Sharon Sopher, Rev. Carlton Veazey, Meredith Wagner, Olivia Wang.

21 Leaders for the 21st Century

Seven Who Harness the Energy of Women

By: Robin Hindery | January 3, 2005

Emilienne de Leon, Wangari Maathai, Helen Miller, Miriam Nelson, Lynn Paltrow, Lydia Pilcher, Dr. Mary Lake Polan.

Seven Who Transform What Is to What Could Be

By: Robin Hindery | January 2, 2005

Estefania “Stephanie” Alves, Loreen Arbus, Charon Asetoyer, Sallie Gratch, Wilhelmina Cole Holladay, Anne Hale Johnson, Barbara Lee.

Women’s eNews Announces 21 Leaders 2005

By: Robin Hindery | January 2, 2005

Women’s eNews’ 21 Leaders for the 21st Century 2005 is an awe-inspiring, reader-nominated list of fantastic, fabulous and farsighted leaders making news by changing women’s lives.

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