On Thanksgiving, cooking the feast remains women’s work for those who get paid top dollar and for those who do it without pay. Could it be because the holiday is really about maintaining relationships? Also, thousands in Mexico protest unsolved murders.
The Congressional Pro-Choice Caucus gets a boost in energy and membership as more and more moderate representatives work to oppose the Bush administration’s conservative anti-abortion agenda.
On this Memorial Day, countless Native American families will remember their grandmothers, mothers, and daughters who served in the United States armed forces–even without an official record of their service.
Flowers are cheerful, cute drawings from tots are delightful, but pay equity and quality child care are the very things that could make many a mom’s heart sing.
The number of single mothers in Japan is on the rise, as women reject traditional attitudes that insist children be raised by a mother and a father. In an apparent response, proposed legislation would reduce government-funded child support.
Glass ceilings, maternal walls and changing work styles have caused a rise in the gap between women’s and men’s earnings. A law school is designing what it hopes are plans to help employers pay their staff fairly and help the bottom line.
A new report suggests that case workers in Michigan pressure recipients to stay in dead-end jobs, even if they want to pursue post high-school education that could ultimately land them more secure and better-paying positions.
As the nation prepares to celebrate Thanksgiving, those around the table this year will include more than 500 Vermont couples and 3,000 others nationwide now joined by legal civil unions. Yet, opposition to civil union laws remains strong.
Sales at women-owned businesses dropped an average 10 percent since Sept. 11. These economic hard times mean that women entrepreneurs are called upon to work even harder and to push their creativity, networking and interpersonal skills.
Muslim women wearing recognizable head scarves for modesty are targeted for insult or attack since the terror attacks. And South Asian women who “look” like Arabs are targeted because of their looks. Some white women are wearing scarves in solidarity.
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