Allison Stevens's blog
Funding the Women's Appointments Project to suggest women for President Obama's Cabinet hasn't materialized, a blow for a process that has been operating in presidential election years since 1976.
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Women who supported Hillary Clinton for president may be inclined to measure the Democratic National Convention in Denver for what it is not: a place where history will be made with the first woman at the top of a major-party presidential ticket. Yet the convention can also be used as a measure for what it is: a showcase of the progress women have made over the last century.
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Will Michelle Obama be women's rights activists best friend in the White House since Eleanor Roosevelt?
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While playing the conventional role of a political wife in her speech on the opening night of the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Michelle Obama stuck in a plug for equal pay.
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Reproductive health advocates are pushing for several bills to become law before Congress adjourns for the holidays. Low-cost contraception and postpartum research are high priorities to make it through the legislative backlog.
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