by Stephanie Drahan, National Women’s Law Center Obama’s take on the proposed regulation to expand religious restrictions was clear – “We need to restore integrity to our public health programs, not create backdoor efforts to weaken them. I am committed to ensuring that the health and reproductive rights of women are protected.” But now, here […]
Month: November 2011
Fight Against an Expanded Religious Exemption that Denies Birth Control Coverage
by Dren Asselmeier, Center for Inquiry on Campus I have my own opinions about birth control and whether it should be made available at no cost to women who want to have control over their reproduction, but I think that there is something that we can do to solve this issue that is more decisive […]
Make the Promise of Preventative Care in the ACA Real for All Women
by The Wisconsin Alliance for Women’s Health Back in August we were celebrating a win for women’s health – the recognition that contraception is prevention. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) required health insurers (for all new plans after August 1, 2012) to cover a number of women’s preventive health care services, […]
HERVotes Blog Carnival: Women v. the Bishops
by Kim Gandy, Feminist Majority Foundation Birth control coverage with no co-pays? Without a doubt one of the most popular benefits of the Affordable Care Act, the preventive care provisions for women require nearly every health insurance provider to cover contraception without any cost sharing. Until now. Maybe. Because there’s a full court press from […]
by Kim Gandy, Feminist Majority Foundation Welcome to the sixth #HERvotes blog carnival on the effort by the Catholic bishops to allow some institutions to refuse, under the Affordable Care Act, birth control coverage without co-pays to students and employeesof hospitals, universities, and other institutions, or other religious affiliated or connected institutions such as Catholic […]
Correct. Protect. Respect. Promoting Economic Security with Safe Workplaces
by Donna Addkison, President/CEO, Wider Opportunities for Women (WOW) Women work. A lot of women work, making up 47% of the American workforce today. Two out three do so to provide the sole or a substantial part of a household income. Yet women in the workforce continue to be the targets of unwanted, unwelcome sexual […]
Preparing America’s Future Workforce: Harassment and Bullying in Schools and How We Can Stop It
Devi Rao, Fellow, National Women’s Law Center Sexual harassment in the workplace is back in the news, for better or worse. But any productive discussion about sexual harassment should include harassment in schools as well as the workplace, both of which are prohibited by federal civil rights laws. As a new study by the American […]
Unions and Sexual Harassment
by Carol Rosenblatt, Executive Director, Coalition of Labor Union Women At a time when women’s rights are under attack in so many areas – we need to be sure that sexual harassment is recognized and taken seriously. Candidates who seek our vote must be clear that they will support, enforce and strengthen protections for women […]
HERVotes Blog Carnival: Fighting Sexual Harassment
By Eleanor Smeal, Feminist Majority Foundation President and Ms. Magazine Publisher HERvotes, a multi-organizational campaign launched in August 2011, advocates that women must use our voices and votes to stop the ongoing attacks on the major advances of the women’s movement. We are very excited that HERvotes is reaching a growing list of member groups […]
Why Mississippi’s ‘Personhood’ Measure Is a Threat to Women Everywhere
By Lauren Kalina, Advocates for Youth Intern On November 8, the state of Mississippi will vote on ballot initiative 26, which will attempt to change the Mississippi constitution to define human life as beginning at conception. The actual text of the initiative is as follows: Section 33. Person defined. As used in this Article III […]