A Peaceful Revolution

Peaceful Revolution: Joint Parenting, Joint Retirement Accounts?

Elizabeth Cox | Posted 07.07.2008 | Living

Read More: Social Security, Retirement, A Peaceful Revolution, Parenting, Retirement Plans, Parenting Advice, Parents, Marriage, Living News
Elizabeth Cox

Under our current system it is not possible to have retirement savings in joint name. So for better or worse, richer or poorer, in retirement planning the maxim "he who earns it, owns it" holds true.

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Peaceful Revolution: Equal Pay for Equal Work- Time for the Senate to Vote

Joan Blades and Lilly Ledbetter | Posted 04.22.2008 | Living

Read More: 1964 Civil Rights Act, Equal Pay for Equal Work, Equal Pay, Civil Rights, A Peaceful Revolution, Living News
Joan Blades and Lilly Ledbetter

For almost 50 years Americans have had the justice system to turn to when they suffer pay discrimination. Last year the Supreme Court upended this law by making it essentially unenforceable.

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Peaceful Revolution: Support Injured Soldiers, Support FMLA

Katie Bethell | Posted 04.01.2008 | Living

Read More: 000 Dead, Supporting the War, Iraq War, 4, Fmla, Injured Soliders, 5th Anniversary Iraq War, Supporting Injured Soldiers, Family and Medical Leave Act, Momsrising, A Peaceful Revolution, Living News
Katie Bethell

Regardless of what each of us thinks about the war, providing support to the military families is the important and right thing to do.

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Peaceful Revolution: Post Setting & The Post-Feminist Fiction

Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner | Posted 03.25.2008 | Living

Read More: Peaceful Revolution, Post Feminism, Sexism, Silda Spizter, Post Feminist, Maternal Wall, Ashley Alexandra Dupre, A Peaceful Revolution, Living News
Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

To those who think we're in a time of Post-Feminism, I say this: Dream on. The posts may have moved, much thanks to the women upon whose shoulders we stand right now, but we're far from Post-Feminist.

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Peaceful Revolution: Rally for Paid Sick Days

Debra L. Ness | Posted 03.04.2008 | Living

Read More: Paid Sick Days, Labor, Work-Life Balance, Sick Days, Healthy Families Act, A Peaceful Revolution, Living News
Debra L. Ness

So often those with benefit packages are amazed to learn that millions of workers are without paid sick days. I hear gasps when I talk about it to certain audiences.

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A Peaceful Revolution: Bringing Humanity to the Workplace

Carla Moquin | Posted 02.19.2008 | Living

Read More: Babies at Work, Families in the Workplace, Labor, Work-Life Balance, Babies, A Peaceful Revolution, Living News
Carla Moquin

Babies in the workplace (which was actually the "norm" in human history prior to the Industrial Revolution) rekindles awareness of our humanity in the workplace.

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A Peaceful Revolution: Do Stay-At-Home Moms Need a Fair Pay Act?

Katie Bethell and Nanette Fondas | Posted 02.12.2008 | Living

Read More: Single Motherhood, Fair Pay Restoration Act, Women and Work, Stay at Home Mothers, Fair Pay, A Peaceful Revolution, Living News
Katie Bethell and Nanette Fondas

By not supporting fair pay for women who do work outside the home, we contribute to a society that devalues women and women's work.

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Peaceful Revolution: Super Bowl, Super Tuesday, Super Mom

Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner | Posted 02.05.2008 | Living

Read More: Super Tuesday, Glass Ceiling, Work Life Balance, Maternal Wall, Super Bowl, A Peaceful Revolution, Living News
Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

I don't want to be counting change with my future granddaughter and explaining to her why women still make less than men for the same job.

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Peaceful Revolution: Choose Leaders You Can Trust: How to Tell the Good Guys from the Bad Guys

Linda Stroh | Posted 01.28.2008 | Living

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Linda Stroh

Betrayals aren't always of an egregious nature. Often betrayals are about being unkind, thoughtless or careless with our small words and deeds that accumulate to negatively affect trusted work and personal relationships and chip away at these trusted relationships in an equally devastating manner.

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A Peaceful Revolution: Moms Leading on Fair Pay

Nanette Fondas | Posted 01.22.2008 | Living

Read More: Motherhood and Work, Single Mothers, Fair Pay Restoration Act, Pay Discrimination, Lilly Ledbetter, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay, Fair Pay, A Peaceful Revolution, Single Motherhood, Motherhood, Work-Life Balance, Living News
Nanette Fondas

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.

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A Peaceful Revolution: Pay Discrimination

Irma D. Herrera | Posted 01.16.2008 | Living

Read More: Ledbetter v Goodyear, Pay Discrimination, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay, Lilly Ledbetter, A Peaceful Revolution, Living News
Irma D. Herrera

A maxim of jurisprudence states that for every wrong there is a remedy -- and the Fair Pay Act remedies the injustices visited upon aggrieved workers by Ledbetter v. Goodyear.

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Peaceful Revolution: Business Leaders of America: Fear Not Paid Family Leave

Nanette Fondas | Posted 01.07.2008 | Living

Read More: Working Women, Work Life Balance, Working Families, Family and Medical Leave Act, A Peaceful Revolution, Living News
Nanette Fondas

American business firms can handle paid leave hands down, because they know there is more to profitability than a single-minded focus on cost. California has offered paid family leave for years with no resulting exodus of business firms.

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Peaceful Revolution: Maternal Profiling: A New York Times Buzzword

Joan Blades | Posted 01.01.2008 | Living

Read More: Motherhood and Work, Maternal Profiling, Childrens Health Insurance, Childcare, A Peaceful Revolution, Buzzwords, New York Times, Motherhood, New York Times 2007 Buzzwords, Work-Life Balance, Health Insurance, New Years 2008, Paid Family Leave, Stay at Home Mothers, Working Moms, Living News
Joan Blades

The vast majority of workplaces are still structured from the era when it was assumed that there was a wife at home full-time with the children.

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A Peaceful Revolution: Mothers' Twelve Days Of Christmas

Nanette Fondas | Posted 12.25.2007 | Living

Read More: Mother and Christmas, Momsrising, Mothers, Christmas, Holiday Season, A Peaceful Revolution, Living News
Nanette Fondas

On the seventh day of Christmas, my true love gave to me: Realistic, fair wages, excellent childcare, health care for all kids!

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A Peaceful Revolution: Mind the Gap: The Female CEO

Irma D. Herrera | Posted 12.18.2007 | Living

Read More: Female CEOs, Working Women, Work-Life Balance, Women and Work, Ceos, A Peaceful Revolution, Living News
Irma D. Herrera

Having a woman boss with a say about pay, promotions, and work schedules is good for the women at all levels.

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A Peaceful Revolution: Caring for the Poor: The South is Rising Again

Robert Drago | Posted 12.13.2007 | Living

Read More: Work-Life Balance, Poor, The South, Poverty, A Peaceful Revolution, Living News
Robert Drago

Successful candidates in either party will need to provide concrete proposals to help low-income working families if they hope to win the South. Liberal politics look to be the new, winning Southern strategy.

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A Peaceful Revolution: Are Britain's Tories More Progressive Than U.S. Democrats?

John de Graaf | Posted 11.27.2007 | Politics

Read More: Sarkozy Work Hours, Margaret Thatcher, UK Conservative Party, Quality of Life Policy Group, David Cameron, Going Green, Blueprint for a Green Economy, Gdp, Capitalism, Children's Health UK, UK Going Green, Children's Health, Green Taxes, Nicolas Sarkozy, Tories, A Peaceful Revolution, Politics News
John de Graaf

Blueprint for a Green Economy represents an amazing step forward, a far-sighted, comprehensive critique of unfettered capitalism from one of capitalism's strongest bastions, the UK's Conservative Party.

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A Peaceful Revolution: What Do Mothers Want? Presidential Candidates Take Notice!

Nanette Fondas | Posted 11.20.2007 | Living

Read More: Mommy Track, Motherhood, Work-Life Balance, Mothers and the 2008 Election, 2008 Election, A Peaceful Revolution, Living News
Nanette Fondas

Moms may not be the focus of this presidential election, but look at what they are concerned about to see why they should be.

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A Peaceful Revolution: Hey Mom, Where You Live Matters!

Robert Drago | Posted 11.13.2007 | Living

Read More: Suburbs, Motherhood, Commuting, Kate Silbaugh, Stay at Home Mothers, Mothers and Work, A Peaceful Revolution, Living News
Robert Drago

We need more mixed-use neighborhoods, and we need them to be affordable for the average family. That will be good for the environment and good for working mothers.

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A Peaceful Revolution: After Halloween Mothers Remain Scared

Katie Bethell and Nanette Fondas | Posted 11.06.2007 | Living

Read More: Motherhood, Moms, Momsrising, Mothers and Work, A Peaceful Revolution, Living News
Katie Bethell and Nanette Fondas

For Halloween last week MomsRising.org asked its members, "What's really scary for American moms?"

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A Peaceful Revolution: You Must be Kidding! Speaker Pelosi and MomsRising Stunned by CPSC

Joan Blades | Posted 11.01.2007 | Living

Read More: Lead, Toxic, Speaker of the House, Nancy Nord, Nancy Pelosi, Lead Paint Toys, Pelosi, Consumer Product Safety Commission, Toxic Toys, Children's Safety, A Peaceful Revolution, Living News
Joan Blades

"You've got to be kidding me!" was the first thing we thought after hearing on the head of the Consumer Product Safety Commission doesn't support legislation to greatly increase resources for her agency to stop toxic products from reaching children.

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A Peaceful Revolution: Difficult Coin Toss: Lose Your Job or Risk Your Child's Health

Lois Capps and Amy Garcia | Posted 10.29.2007 | Living

Read More: Families and Work, Paid Leave, Sick Days, Working Parents, Baltimore Immunizations, Mothers and Work, A Peaceful Revolution, Paid Sick Days, Vaccinations, Healthy Families Act, Living News
Lois Capps and Amy Garcia

State and local governments require a series of vaccines before students attend school. Yet many parents cannot afford the time off from work they need to get their children essential vaccinations.

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A Peaceful Revolution: Reduced Hours are Green

Robert Drago | Posted 10.23.2007 | Living

Read More: Momsrising, The Half-Time Tenure Track, A Peaceful Revolution, Living News
Robert Drago

When people work more, they produce and consume more goods and services, and producing and consuming both use energy.

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A Peaceful Revolution: Dear Senator Clinton, Why Should Young Women Vote For You?

Mary Ann Mason | Posted 10.16.2007 | Living

Read More: Hillary Clinton, Single Women Voters, Women and Hillary Clinton, Women Voters, A Peaceful Revolution, Living News
Mary Ann Mason

Single twenty-something women are reputed to be the largest single group of undecided voters. They could make the difference. What do they want?

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A Peaceful Revolution: It's Time to Value Families at Work

Ellen Bravo | Posted 10.09.2007 | Living

Read More: Women in the Workplace, Families and Work, Activist Moms, A Peaceful Revolution, Momsrising, Living News
Ellen Bravo

We hear a lot of talk about freedoms in the U.S. Apparently the freedom to refuse mandatory overtime isn't one of them.

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