Paycheck Fairness Act Blocked, Foreshadowing Challenging Future for Women's Equality
The new Congress hasn't taken office yet, but the writing already is on the wall. Efforts to advance women's equality will be relegated to the back burner, or worse, actively torched. Today we witnessed conservatives in the Senate block the Paycheck Fairness Act, denying women a significant step toward finally closing the gender wage gap.
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Unrealistic Images of Women Make Love Your Body Day More Important Than Ever
For years now, advertisers and fashion magazines have airbrushed photos to turn models into the latest beauty ideal. Women and girls are constantly bombarded with these artificial images -- fantasies they can't possibly live up to in real life.
The National Organization for Women Foundation Celebrates Love Your Body Day's 10 Year Anniversary
For the past ten years, the Love Your Body Campaign has promoted healthy body images for women and girls through creative actions and consumer education. The campaign calls for women and girls to be in control of what makes them feel healthy and comfortable with their bodies, on their own terms and not based on unrealistic images promoted by advertisers and the mass media.
Women Lose Millions Due to Wage Gap, NOW Calls for Passage of Pay Equity Legislation
Why do women have to work an extra 114 days to keep pace with men? Because full-time women workers are paid an average of 77 cents for every dollar men are paid. Women of color are short-changed even more, with African-American women paid only 71 cents and Latinas just 58 cents on men's dollar.
Senate Values Science and Curative Medicine over Ideology
WASHINGTON, D. C. — In a 63 - 34 vote, the Senate today passed S. 21, a bill that would allow -- for the first time -- federal funding of all forms of stem cell research utilizing donated human embryos that would otherwise be destroyed. Stem cell research has enormous potential in finding cures, remedies and treatments for debilitating and life-threatening injuries and illnesses such as Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's and diabetes, to name a few.
First and Only FDA Approved Chewable Birth Control Pill Now Available
Women who rely on oral contraceptives as a means for birth control can now have their pill and chew it, too. The first and only FDA approved chewable birth control pill is now available with a prescription.
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