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The Equal Rights Amendment Needs You - Now!

Martha Burk | Posted 04.03.2013 | Politics
Read More: Abortion, Equal Rights Amendment, Women's Rights, Birth Control, Title IX, Rape, Pay Gap, Gender Pay Gap, Era, First Amendment. Alice Paul, Pregnancy Leave, Women in Combat, Women in the Military, Politics News
Martha Burk

The only constitutional right specifically guaranteed to women on an equal basis with men is the right to vote, affirmed by the 19th Amendment in 1920 after an arduous 72-year political struggle. The campaign for the Equal Rights Amendment has been even longer and at least as grueling.

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The Other Conversation We Need To Have About Pregnancy And Work

Christina Huffington | Posted 12.13.2012 | Women
Read More: Pregnancy Study, Career & Money, Women in the Workplace, Women's Rights, Norway, Maternity Leave, Paid Maternal Leave, Sick Leave, Women's Health, Pregnant, Pregnancy, Paid Sick Leave, Pregnancy Leave, Women News

Pregnant women face numerous challenges at work -- discrimination in hiring and the absence of federally mandated maternity leave, to name two. Howeve...

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NBA Allegedly Forced Women With Young Children Out Of Jobs

AP | Posted 10.24.2012 | Business
Read More: National Basketball Association, Video, Brynn Cohn, Gender Discrimination Lawsuit, Nba Discrimination Lawsuit, Fmla, Nba Lawsuit, Nba Gender Discrimination Lawsuit, Nba, Pregnancy Leave, Business News

NEW YORK -- A New Jersey woman who worked for the NBA as a senior account executive filed a $3 million gender discrimination lawsuit against the leagu...

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The Politics of Motherhood

Ann O'Leary | Posted 07.16.2012 | Politics
Read More: Pregnancy Discrimination Act, Paid Sick Leave, Family and Medical Leave Act, Stay at Home Mothers, Maternity Leave, Working Mothers, Paid Time Off, Time Magazine Breastfeeding Cover, Pregnancy Leave, Working Moms, Politics News
Ann O'Leary

Working mothers, or at least those with limited education and lower-end jobs, have almost no employee benefits that allow time away from work when their children are sick or even when they give birth.

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Pregnancy Discrimination Claims On The Rise

The Huffington Post | Posted 04.24.2012 | Business
Read More: Maternity Leave, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Rise in Pregnancy Discrimination, Pregnancy Leave, Eeoc, Pregnancy Discrimination, Business News

Pregnancy discrimination claims are on the rise, according to new data from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. In public hearing held Fe...

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The U.S. Needs Paid Parental and Pregnancy Leave

Brian Gresko | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Parental Leave, Paid Parental Leave, Working Mothers, Parenting, Pregnancy Leave, Parental Leave US, Working Moms, Healthy Living News
Brian Gresko

The odds are against mothers having as successful a career as non-mothers. The United States is the only wealthy nation that does not offer parental leave.

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