US teenage birth rates fall again but still among highest in developed world
“That is speaking to the fact that we have in the past few years in the United States done a better job at making sure people have better access to reproductive healthcare – including contraception –...
View ArticleCalifornia Fails To Extend Family Leave Rights For Parents In Small Businesses
Although big-name companies offer generous paid family benefits — sometimes months of leave for both parents — many workers can’t take more than a few days off, even without pay. But work-life...
View Article2016 Webinar Series: “If You Care About …, You Should Care About Reproductive...
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View ArticleWomen and Families Need Polices that Support Economic and Reproductive Justice
The decision of whether or when to have children is one of the most important economic decisions a woman may make in her lifetime. Having a child creates an immediate drop in earnings as well as a...
View ArticleStates Take Action to Stop Bosses’ Religious Beliefs from Trumping Women’s...
Across the country, employers are using their religious beliefs to discriminate against their employees because they disagree with their employees’ personal reproductive health care decisions. Women...
View ArticleWhy employers’ efforts to support pregnant workers can backfire
“People still have a lot of stereotypes about whether mothers are good workers, and those come into play when women are pregnant,” said Emily Martin, general counsel and vice president for Workplace...
View ArticleAccommodations for Pregnant Employees Act (H. 136): Ensuring Pregnant Workers...
Pregnant Workers Are Too Often Pushed Out of Work Although many women can continue working safely throughout their pregnancies without any changes at work, some women find that at some point during...
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#WinsForWomen: Pregnancy Accommodation Bills Advance in 4 States—Some...
In the last few weeks we have heard a lot of male politicians saying pregnant women just don’t matter. Some politicians don’t think insurance plans should have to cover prenatal or maternity care...
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Maryland Proves it is Dedicated to Supporting Women’s Reproductive...
Last year, Maryland enacted one of the most comprehensive birth control coverage bills in the country. But the state legislature didn’t rest on its laurels in 2017. In just a short 90-day session,...
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The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act: Making Room for Pregnancy on the Job
Almost 40 years after passage of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, pregnant women still face challenges on the job. This is especially so in jobs that require physical activity like running, lifting,...
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Don’t Be a Jerk on Mother’s Day: Support the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act
Remember when you were a kid and you would say something really mean to your mom? And then Mother’s Day would roll around and you would write one of those “thanks for putting up with me” mea culpa...
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The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act is One Piece of a Broader Puzzle
The day I told one of the deans at the school where I worked that I was pregnant, I broke down into tears. Even though this was a wanted and planned pregnancy, I was suddenly overwhelmed by what it...
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Share Your Thoughts on Women’s Preventive Care: Diabetes Screening after...
There are so many reasons to be thankful for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) – and one of the most important reasons is the law’s women’s preventive services provision, which requires all new health...
View ArticleHarry Potter at 20: How J.K. Rowling went from welfare to billion-dollar wizards
And, like Rowling did in her early days, those families tend to struggle financially. Households headed by single moms are far more likely to live in poverty than those headed by men or by married...
View ArticleWhy Did This Crisis Pregnancy Center Advertise on a Public School’s...
Beyond promoting themselves on billboards and public transit, CPCs around the country have run ads in school newspapers and set up shop in neighborhoods near colleges and universities. The ticket ads...
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Zika Virus, Reproductive Healthcare, and Workplace Policies
Zika virus disease is a mosquito-borne and sexually transmitted illness that has been spreading in the Western hemisphere since 2015. Although it often causes mild or no symptoms Zika virus can have...
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Pregnancy Accommodations in the States
Twenty-two states and the District of Columbia have passed laws to explicitly grant pregnant employees the right to reasonable accommodations at work. Seventeen of these laws have been passed since...
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Welcome Back Congress: What You Need to Know
Although this current Congress has caused us all some heartaches, headaches, and induced some very serious eye-rolling, Example of the very serious eye-rolling taking place in our offices almost daily....
View ArticleFar From ‘Tragic’: Author Jenna Vinson on the Misrepresentation of Young Mothers
For example, I learned from my case study of the 2013 formation of the #NoTeenShame movement that organizations like Planned Parenthood New York and the National Women’s Law Center, as well as...
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Mississippi is Shortchanging Women
Too many employers and policymakers are shortchanging Mississippi women, and as a result, women and their families are struggling just to make ends meet. Mississippi women and their families know it...
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