Soccer moms, security moms ... How will the mothers' vote be labeled this year? Broke and burned out moms?

Possibly. A new survey of 12,000 women by Working America/AFL-CIO finds mothers so strapped financially that half said they'd take a second job if they had more free time. But...

Many election-year observers have noted the absence of a compelling idea or framework to unite either party -- and ultimately the electorate -- in the Presidential race. Slogans like "change," "experience," and "security" don't suffice at a time when Americans are being pounded by waves of global, demographic, and technological...

On International Women's Day on Saturday, I started thinking about moms around the world and then moms in our own United States of America. As the mother of four children, I've spent a lot of time over the years breastfeeding babies, and so I wondered: Why do moms in the...

When our granddaughters read their history books, this week may well be one that is marked as the beginning of the end of the pay discrimination many of their foremothers endured.

On Thursday of this week, the Senate holds its first hearing on the Fair Pay Restoration Act (S.1843)...

In the waning days of the Bush administration, pro-business forces want to lock in rules in several policy areas -- health, safety, labor -- in case a Democrat moves into the White House following the '08 election. The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) is among those rules they want...

On the first day of Christmas,
my true love gave me:
A lovely, bouncing baby.

On the second day of Christmas,
my true love gave to me:
Paid parental leave,
And a lovely, bouncing baby.

It wasn't long ago that presidential candidates wooed the votes of "soccer moms" and "waitress moms." With the 2008 election looming and presidential debates already underway, it's fair to ask, "What's on the minds of moms?''

I've interviewed mothers around the country for the past several years: old and new...