Women and Politics
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1.1KTrying to find Happiness for this Mother
I have lost my joy since becoming a mother. I know I am knee-deep in the hardest season of parenting, with two...
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835The Good is Oft Interred with the Bones: Richard Nixon and Title IX
“The Evil That Men Do Lives After Them; The Good is Oft Interred with their Bones” Shakespeare Shortly after taking office as...
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1.4KWomen Leading the Labor Movement: Mary Kay Henry
Mary Kay Henry is the first woman to lead Service Employees International Union. The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is a union...
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1.5KWomen Leading the Labor Movement: Roberta Lynch
Roberta Lynch became Executive Director of AFSCME Council 31 in 2014. AFSCME Council 31 represents more than 90,000 active and retired state,...
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1.0KWomen Leading the Labor Movement: Frances Perkins
As a student at Mount Holyoke College, Frances Perkins, born in 1880, studied the working conditions in a factory. Perkins later remembered...
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656Women Leading the Labor Movement: Sara Nelson
Sara Nelson has served as the International President of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, AFL-CIO since 2014. The AFA represents fifty thousand...
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649The State of Abortion Rights in the United States
An unknown person leaked a copy of a Supreme Court decision written by Justice Samuel Alito. Chief Justice Roberts confirmed the leak...
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740Liz Shuler and the Future of Organized Labor
Liz Shuler was elected the AFL-CIO’s first female president in August after longtime leader Richard Trumka unexpectedly passed away. Shuler said, “Rich...
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1.4KPaid Parental Leave in the United States
Paid parental leave, paid time off after giving birth to or adopting a new child, is the issue that seems to be...
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1.4KTrying not to Rant About Texas’s Abortion Bill
I will try to write an article without ranting about Texas’s Abortion Bill, but it’s challenging to do so. So I will...