HERvotes Blog Carnival: What Health-Care Reform Means to Women
By Cindy Pearson, co-founder of Raising Women’s Voices for the Health Care We Need For the tenth #HERvotes blog carnival, we’re celebrating the second anniversary of the new health-reform law, the...
View ArticleHERvotes Blog Carnival: Tell Congress to Reauthorize VAWA
by Eleanor Smeal, Feminist Majority Foundation For the eleventh #HERvotes blog carnival, we’re joining together to urge the Reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). Domestic violence...
View ArticleHERvotes Blog Carnival: Economic Security
by Terry O’Neill, National Organization for Women In time for Mothers Day, the 12th HERvotes blog carnival is dedicated to getting the word out about economic security for women, especially in their...
View ArticleHERvotes Blog Carnival: National Women’s Health Week
By Cindy Pearson, co-founder of Raising Women’s Voices for the Health Care We Need For the 13th #HERvotes blog carnival, we’re celebrating National Women’s Health Week. The federal government launched...
View ArticleHERvotes Blog Carnival: It’s Time to Pass the Paycheck Fairness Act!
By Fatima Goss Graves, Vice President for Education and Employment at the National Women’s Law Center For this 14th #HERvotes blog carnival, we’re blogging about equal pay and the need for the Paycheck...
View ArticleSalary Negotiation, Powerful Women and the Wage Gap
I worked at the same part-time job from my sophomore year of high school to my sophomore year of college at a retail store in my hometown. I faithfully worked every Christmas Eve for the holiday rush...
View ArticleHERvotes Blog Carnival: Reauthorize the Real VAWA – Reject “VAWA Lite”
By Kim Gandy, VP and General Counsel, Feminist Majority Foundation HERvotes is joining our voices together in a blog carnival urging passage of the “real” Violence Against Women Act (VAWA)...
View ArticleYouth Voters Unenthused? We Beg to Disagree!
A headline on the Los Angeles Times‘ front page yesterday read, “Young Voters Fire Has Waned.” And boy, did they have facts to back that up: Well, at least they had Luke DeGregori, a 19-year-old...
View ArticleYou Deserve a Fair Election
Wow, we can’t believe it’s almost here – Election Day is tomorrow! Everything we’ve been working on for months is on the line. It’s time to cast your vote and make your voice heard. With the polls...
View ArticleTennessee’s Amendment 1 Is Not What You Think And Not What You Want
Many have heard about Amendment 1, the new proposed amendment to the Tennessee State Constitution that will appear on the ballot this election cycle. Distressingly, however, is that many, if not more,...
View ArticleSounding the Alarm at the HERvotes Press Conference
A coalition of over 50 women’s organizations came together this morning to hold a press conference on the launching of a nationwide effort to mobilize women voters around the issues most affecting...
View Article2-Year Anniversary of the Affordable Care Act: What’s In It for Young People?
Part of the #HERvotes blog carnival. Cross-posted with Amplify Your Voice. This week is the anniversary of the Affordable Care Act and next week the Supreme Court will hear arguments from some states...
View ArticleThe Impact of the Affordable Care Act on One Young Woman
Part of the #HERvotes blog carnival. Cross-posted with Say it Sister! NOW’s Blog for Equality. March is National Women’s History Month as well as the second anniversary of the Affordable Care Act....
View ArticleEconomic Security
Part of the #HERvotes blog carnival. In time for Mothers Day, the 12th HERvotes blog carnival is dedicated to getting the word out about economic security for women, especially in their retirement...
View ArticleNational Women’s Health Week
Part of the #HERvotes blog carnival. For the 13th #HERvotes blog carnival, we’re celebrating National Women’s Health Week. The federal government launched National Women’s Health Week ten years ago in...
View ArticleSalary Negotiation, Powerful Women and the Wage Gap
Part of the #HERvotes blog carnival. I worked at the same part-time job from my sophomore year of high school to my sophomore year of college at a retail store in my hometown. I faithfully worked every...
View ArticleThe Relationship Between Unequal Pay and Other Forms of Gender Discrimination
Part of the #HERvotes blog carnival. United States federal laws exist to protect women in the workplace, such as the Equal Pay Act of 1963, which prohibits the distribution of unequal pay between the...
View ArticleReauthorize the Real VAWA – Reject “VAWA Lite”
Part of the #HERvotes blog carnival. HERvotes is joining our voices together in a blog carnival urging passage of the “real” Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) reauthorization — the bi-partisan bill...
View ArticlePass a Final Violence Against Women Act that Includes Campus SaVE
Part of the #HERvotes blog carnival. Cross-posted with Jewish Women International. The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), a previously bi-partisan bill used to advance services for victims and...
View ArticleCelebrating the ACA and New Coverage for Preventative Care!
Part of the #HERvotes blog carnival. HERvotes is joining our voices together in a blog carnival to celebrate and defend women’s preventive services, including contraception. Starting August 1, all new...
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