While women in other states can celebrate recent strides toward equality, here in Washington our state Legislature marked Women’s History Month by closing down its 2016 regular session on March 10 with bills attacking gender inequity…dead in their tracks. Progress was within reach – even given the partisan divide between the House (Democrat) and Senate (Republican).Continue reading “Washington legislators commemorate Women’s History Month…with dead gender equity bills”
Category Archives: Family Leave Insurance
The US needs paid family leave — for the sake of its future
In this incisive talk, Jessica Shortall makes the impassioned case that the reality of new working motherhood in America is both hidden and horrible: millions of women, every year, are forced back to work within just weeks of giving birth. Her idea worth spreading: the time has come for us to recognize the economic, physicalContinue reading “The US needs paid family leave — for the sake of its future”
Tell WA legislators: Unleash the Family and Medical Leave Act
We all need access to long-term leave at some point — whether to nurture a new child, fight cancer, or care for an aging parent. But too many Washington workers don’t have that option. They have to sacrifice health and family well-being to cover their bills. Washington’s Family and Medical Leave Insurance (FaMLI) bill wouldContinue reading “Tell WA legislators: Unleash the Family and Medical Leave Act”
Washington Work and Family Coalition 