Updates on the Issues
Former First Lady Laura Bush Describes What She Wants From the Next President
“I want our next president — whoever he or she might be — to be somebody who is interested in women in Afghanistan and who will continue U.S. policies,” she said. “That’s who I want — or the kind of people that will do that and will pay attention to our history, and know what’s happened before and know specifically how we can continue to do the good things that we do around the world.”
Watch the full panel discussion from the Women in the World conference with Laura, Jenna, and Barbara Bush here.
Source: Time
Older Women Are Being Forced Out of the Workforce
Maternity Leave: How America Is Failing Its Mothers
Source: Vice.com
How Do We Close the Wage Gap in the U.S.?
The gender pay gap is now the narrowest it’s ever been, and yet it’s still 2.5 times the size of those of other industrialized countries. So what’s to be done?
Source: The Atlantic A&Q (A special series that inverts the classic Q&A, taking some of the most frequently posed solutions to pressing matters of policy and exploring their complexity.)
Life in the Only Industrialized Country Without Paid Maternity Leave
Source: The Atlantic
Here's What Made Vice President Joe Biden's Oscars Speech On Sexual Assault So Powerful
How Society Pays When Women’s Work Is Unpaid
Source: New York Times
Banks Run by Women Might Be Less Vulnerable in a Crisis
Source: Wall Street Journal
Women’s Media Center launches project to document online abuse and harassment
Kirsten Gillibrand: We Need to Change the Conversation About ‘Having it All’
Source: Motto
Exclusive: Accenture Is the First Big Consulting Firm to Publish Race and Gender Stats
Source: Fortune
Obama signs International Megan's Law
Source: NJ.com
Huge study finds that companies with more women leaders are more profitable
Source: QZ
We act as if work is optional for women. It’s not.
Super Bowl Sex Trafficking a Myth? Let’s Debunk That Right Now!
Source: Evangelicals for Social Action