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In: Maine Women's Agenda|Maine Women's Lobby|She Decides|Women's Leadership
13 Sep 2010It’s September, and you know what that means… The temperature is dropping, and the election season is heating up! So, here’s a little update on your action with the SheDecides campaign. One word: awesome. Candidates have returned dozens of questionnaires. We’re learning how Maine candidates feel about the minimum wage, equal pay, family leave insurance, [...]
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Cheers to 90 years!
In: Equal Pay|Events|Fair Pay|Labor|Laura Harper|Maine Women's Agenda|Maine Women's Lobby|Paid sick days|Women's Leadership
26 Aug 2010After nearly a century of struggle, on August 26th, 1920, the 19th amendment granted women the right to vote. In 90 years women voters have made a lot of progress – we’ve seen pioneering women like Shirley Chisholm, Hillary Clinton, and Margaret Chase Smith make bids for the presidency, and we have passed landmark legislation [...]
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Video: Salary Moms Earn Far Less
24 Aug 2010Watch Kristine of MomRising.org on Good Morning America speak to how ”the maternal wall is getting in the way of the glass ceiling.”
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Welcome, Justice Kagan
5 Aug 2010In a 63-37 vote, the United States Senate has just confirmed Elena Kagan as the next associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. This fall, three women will take their seats together on the bench for the first time in United States history. This is a monumental achievement for women in the [...]
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Maine Senators to Support Elena Kagan
In: Olympia Snowe|Supreme Court|Susan Collins|Women's Leadership
28 Jul 2010This just in: Senator Olympia Snowe announced this afternoon that she will be supporting Elena Kagan’s confirmation to the Supreme Court of the United States. This follows a similar announcement by Senator Susan Collins, just last week. With these exciting announcements, four Republican Senators have now pledged their support of this groundbreaking nominee. If Elena [...]
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The Story of Cosmetics
In: Alliance for a Clean and Healthy Maine|BPA|Maine Women's Policy Center|Reproductive Health|safe cosmetics|Women's Leadership
27 Jul 2010Yesterday a crowd of nearly 50 gathered at the Maine Women’s Policy Center and Planned Parenthood of Northern New England’s showing of the “Story of Cosmetics.” The film covered the prevalence of toxic chemicals in personal care products and touched on our need to reform the chemical safety system. Check it out right now – [...]
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- Tags: Annie Leonard, movie, Shampoo
Here’s your opportunity to be a part of history in the making! Please take five minutes to urge Senators Snowe and Collins to put their full support behind President Obama’s nomination of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court. During her Supreme Court nomination hearings, Elena Kagan demonstrated her outstanding intellectual credentials, her independence of thought, [...]
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Our Associate Director, Charlotte Warren, is chosen as a delegate to a national women’s convention! WASHINGTON, D.C. (May 19, 2010) —More than 1,000 registered to nominate or become Vision 2020 National Delegates, but in the end it came down to 102 extraordinary women who will serve as chief advocates for women’s leadership and equality in [...]
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A Brief Case for Women on the Bench
18 May 2010In light of Elena Kagan’s recent nomination to the Supreme Court, let us take a moment to applaud the President in recognizing the dearth and importance of women’s representation on the bench. Since 1973, when the first female attorney was admitted to the bar, only five women have been nominated to the Supreme Court and [...]
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Maine Equal Pay Day
6 Apr 2010Each year in April we celebrate Equal Pay Day. This day in April indicates how far into each year a woman must work to earn as much as men did the previous year. Nationally this day is observed on April 19th, but in Maine, in line with Maine’s wage gap we observe the day the [...]
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- Tags: Equal Pay, Olympia Snowe, pay equity, S 182, Susan Collins, Wage Gap
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