Studies show roughly half of our health as adults has been programmed in the first thousand days after conception. So societies that privilege those first thousand days are healthier than societies that neglect them. There are only three countries in the world that don’t have a paid maternity leave policy. One of those countries isContinue reading “High Inequality Results in More US Deaths Than Tobacco, Car Crashes and Guns Combined”
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Mother is calling on Gov. Inslee to fund paid maternity leave (Video)
Rebecca Valley, a new mom who works as an Administrative Assistant in Everett, is calling on Governor Jay Inslee to fund paid maternity leave. When she gave birth 11 months ago to her daughter Matilda, Rebecca planned to use her three weeks of paid time off to care for her newborn. She ended up needingContinue reading “Mother is calling on Gov. Inslee to fund paid maternity leave (Video)”
We still don’t ‘get’ women as equals
By Seattle Times Staff Columnist Jerry Large Seeing women as full people is kind of a new thing, I mean it must be, because we continue to have trouble making that leap. And when I say we, I don’t just mean men, I mean women, too. The persistence of domestic violence, pay gaps, and exploitive orContinue reading “We still don’t ‘get’ women as equals”
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