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So Far, Health Reform Gives Rights to Nursing Moms

By Lisa Pierson Weinberger ● Health & Science ● April 15, 2011

For over a year, nursing women have had the right to take breaks to express breast milk during the workday if they work for certain employers. But until both parties can agree on health care reform, working nursing moms have a lot at stake.

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Let’s Tell the Full Story of Great Women

By Kelly M. Parisi ● Arts & Culture ● June 22, 2005

Helen Keller would have been 125 this month. Kelly Parisi says that like many great women her full story is getting lost. The deaf and blind child who found language at a water pump became an international celebrity and advocate for women’s rights.

Sex Bias in Citizenship Law Challenged

By Victoria Graham ● Commentary ● January 10, 2001

Challenging one of the few remaining gender-based federal statutes, women’s advocates urged the Supreme Court to overturn the law that makes it harder for fathers to transmit citizenship to their foreign-born children than it does for mothers.

Anti-Choice Ashcroft Chosen to Be Attorney General

By no-author ● Arts & Culture ● December 25, 2000

Anti-Woman Bankruptcy Bill May Be Veto-Proof

By Elizabeth Warren ● Commentary ● December 14, 2000

Clinton promises to veto a bill Monday that pits parents seeking child support against large banks and continues to protect violent anti-abortion protesters. Now, the bill’s backers appear to have enough votes to override the President’s veto.

Family Law Meets Science Frontiers, Social Shifts

By Deborah Mathis ● Crime & Law ● November 22, 2000

It’s not your mother’s family law practice. Today a family lawyer needs to know about reproductive science, genetics and technology, as well as the shifting frontiers of ethics, the latest thinking in child development and new contours in sociology.

Custody Lawyer Says Solomon Had It All Wrong

By Stephanie B. Goldberg ● Crime & Law ● June 19, 2000

Women fare poorly in court battles over custody, as do children, says a lawyer who now refuses to fight custody battles. She has now joined a small but growing minority of family law lawyers who seek to reduce conflict in custody disputes.