Every month my paycheck is a little less because of Medicare and Social Security. In my thirties, I find it difficult to truly appreciate what this contribution means down the […]
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The #HERvotes campaign for women to vote in 2012 to preserve our health and economic rights
After Cuts to Autistic Caretaking Programs, Women Will Pick Up Slack
As a gangly, nerdy and awkward 11-year-old, I was bad at basketball. I remember being in gym class at school, an orange ball in my hands and absolutely no idea […]
Stop the Cuts, Invest in Women—Our Futures Depend on It
Women are the majority of Americans living at or below the poverty level. Deeper cuts in our federal safety net programs–Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Health Care and Family Planning–will drive […]
Women Must Vote in 2012
By Eleanor Smeal, President of the Feminist Majority Foundation and Publisher of Ms. Magazine This blog is part of the #HERvotes blog carnival. The Feminist Majority Foundation and Ms. magazine […]
The Violence Against Women Act Saves Money–And Lives
Under the guise of deficit reduction, politicians are taking a hacksaw to a number of women’s health and economic programs. Ironically, however, the same politicians are avoiding renewing an existing […]
Scapegoating Black Women in a Recession
You know the media spin cycle and the propagandists are winning when you advise a young, promising black woman undergraduate student about her prospects for doctoral studies, and she immediately […]
Woman #451: Imagining the U.S. Without Legal Abortion
Report from the United States of America, July, 2015. Four months after the re-criminalization of abortion. Woman #451 was 38 years old. She had just finished chemotherapy treatments for breast […]
Life Without Title IX
It’s very easy for me to imagine life without Title IX. That’s because I already lived it. I was quite the little jock growing up. I spent every evening after […]
New Voter ID Laws Threaten Women’s Right To Vote
This week marks two landmark anniversaries in the history of American voting rights. Ninety-one years ago tomorrow, U.S. women won the legal right to vote. Forty-eight years ago this Sunday, […]
Better Health Care for Millions of Women? The Right Wing Is Outraged, Outraged!
When Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced last week that birth control and other women’s preventive health care services would be covered by health insurance […]