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Study: Maternity Leave Important for Health of Mother and Child
As reported in the health section of Time, a new study by the National Bureau of Economic Research revealed that a short maternity leave has negative health outcomes for both mother and child. Mothers of 3-month-old infants who worked full-time “reported feeling...
We’ve Had Enough: Our Response to Anti-Choice Legislation
As we blogged here on July 26th, there has been a record number of anti-abortion bills introduced in state legislatures across the country, and Pennsylvania is no exception. In the first six months of 2011, Pennsylvania lawmakers spent 30% of their days at the...
T-shirt re-opens discussion on marriage equality in U.S.
Radio listeners in the Pittsburgh region tuned in to KDKA radio at 8pm last Friday night to listen to Sue Frietsche, Senior Staff Attorney at the Women’s Law Project in Pittsburgh, weigh in on a recent controversy at Dollywood’s Splash Country water park in Tennessee....
At Two-Year Colleges, Less Scrutiny Equals Less Athletic Equality
Community colleges face unique problems in providing athletic opportunities to their students. As the Title IX blog points out, two year colleges generally have a “non-traditional student body, of which women make up the majority--often a large majority, [which] has...
Record number of anti-choice bills introduced in 2011: We’ve Had Enough!
A recent article published by the Guttmacher Institute gives us the chilling statistics to back up the fight we have all been facing in the Pennsylvania legislature. In the first six months of 2011, states enacted 162 new provisions related to reproductive health and...
