Census data released this week shows that President Trump’s agenda is taking a terrible toll on women and families.
Author: Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner
Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner is the author of Keep Marching and Executive Director and CEO of MomsRising—an on-the-ground and online grassroots organization of more than a million people who are working to increase family economic security, decrease discrimination against women and moms and build a nation where businesses and families can thrive.
Moms Across the Country Are Being Shortchanged
This week marked the 56th anniversary of the Equal Pay Act becoming law—on the same day moms, across race and ethnicities, worked until in order to earn what dads were paid in 2018 alone.
Maternal Injustice: Alabama’s Abortion Ban is an Attack on Moms Everywhere
Most women who get abortion care are mothers, and they do so primarily because it’s best for their families.
The Rise of the Warrior Mom
Forget the flowers. Send us indestructible Wonder Woman shields and Captain Marvel’s superhuman strength for Mother’s Day.
The U.S. Has Never Needed Paid Family and Medical Leave More
Congress must pass the FAMILY Act, and President Trump must sign it into law.
Trump’s Border Practices are a National Shame
The Trump Administration has deeply offended the moral sensibilities of woman and mothers across the nation—and their border policies pose a threat not just to women’s lives, but to our democracy.
Keep Marching: We Can Close the Wage Gap for Working Moms
For the 81 percent of women who become mothers, the wage gap is even bigger—and it’s bigger still for moms of color, queer moms and single moms.
Getting to The Good Place
A sitcom centered on moral understanding, let alone one that actually references philosophers like Kant and Kierkegaard, might seem like a buzzkill. But The Good Place is laugh-out-loud funny.
Coming Out, Unusually
Sometimes the deeper struggle in coming out rests with the process of simultaneously discovering and creating one’s sexual identity. It is her willingness to probe this process that makes Lori Horvitz’s memoir The Girls of Usually so refreshing and engaging to read.
It’s Not a “Mommy War”—It’s A War On Moms
There is no question that Hilary Rosen should have chosen her words more carefully when she said that Ann Romney, mother of five sons, “never worked a day in her life.” Raising children is work. It’s immensely rewarding work, but it’s work just the same. Ann Romney is justifiably proud of the work she’s done […]