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Maria Shriver Says It's a Woman's Nation. Do You?

The report stems from the finding that women are ... as Gloria Steinem put it ... half of all workers with incomes that are necessary to 80 percent of families—indeed, 40 percent of babies are now born to single mothers—childcare is still nowhere on ...

From PUNDITMOM, BlogHer,  20 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Maria Shriver,  Gloria Steinem,  U.S. Congress,  John F. Kennedy,  White House

Holding Up More Than Half the Sky

One of my favorite Chinese proverbs says, "Women hold up half the sky." Some days I feel like it's more than half, but the point of the proverb is that women are equal partners with men in navigating through life. At least, we ought to be. In their ...

From PUNDITMOM, BlogHer,  16 Oct 2009

Related Topics: New York Times Company,  Sheryl Wudunn,  Hillary Rodham Clinton,  World Bank,  Twitter Inc

Getting Mad as Hell on Health Care and Not Taking it Anymore

Women on Capitol Hill seem to be mad as hell when it comes to health care and they're not taking it anymore. This week, women Senators and members of Congress started speaking out collectively about the lack of interest and, perhaps, the lack of ...

From PUNDITMOM, BlogHer,  9 Oct 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Senate,  Orrin Hatch,  Debbie Stabenow,  Amy Klobuchar,  U.S. Republican Party

Frontal Assault on Reproductive Health Care

Then, Senator Stabenow contested the plan of Senator Orrin Hatch to preclude insurance providers who work with the federal government on any public option/co-op sort of plan they come up with from offering abortion services to their private insurance ...

From PUNDITMOM, BlogHer,  2 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Orrin Hatch,  U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Senate,  Debbie Stabenow,  U S News & World Report

Michelle Obama - The New Secret Weapon on Health Care?

In the battle for health care reform, the White House has unleashed its new secret weapon -- Michelle Obama! She gave an amazingly inspired speech to the White House Council on Women and Girls last week. The First Lady shared the speaking duties with ...

From PUNDITMOM, BlogHer,  25 Sep 2009

Related Topics: White House,  Michelle Obama,  National Rifle Association,  MSNBC

Katie Couric and Diane Sawyer Are No "Newsmommies"

Someone has actually coined the phrase "newsmommy." Yes, you heard me. Newsmommy. I thought we'd come a long way, baby, when Katie Couric was named to anchor the CBS Evening News. So when ABC announced that Diane Sawyer would be taking the anchor chair ...

From PUNDITMOM, BlogHer,  18 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Katie Couric,  Diane Sawyer,  Saddam Hussein,  Antonin Scalia,  New York Times Company

How Much Reform Will There Be in President Obama's Health Plan?

Lindsay Beyerstein at RHRealityCheck was less than inspired by what the President had to say: Instead of presenting a vision and asking Congress to line up behind him, the president stressed that he was synthesizing a compromise position incorporating ...

From PUNDITMOM, BlogHer,  11 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Time Magazine,  Jane Hamsher

What are Conservatives Really Afraid of When the President Talks to Schoolchildren?

Yesterday, I wrote a post at my blog that was something of a rant about the right wing's campaign to keep kids home from school on September 8 when the President is scheduled to broadcast a web event to talk with them the importance of education, ...

From PUNDITMOM, BlogHer,  4 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  George W. Bush,  U.S. Republican Party

Political Girl Crushes

So you'd think that a little more attention might be paid to the wise words of Elizabeth Warren, the common-sense Harvard professor who was put in charge of the TARP oversight panel. When she talks, everyone should listen. I've become such a fan, that ...

From PUNDITMOM, BlogHer,  7 Aug 2009

Related Topics: Harvard University,  Alan Greenspan,  Sheila Bair,  Rachel Maddow,  Timothy F. Geithner

Health Reform -- You Say ToMAYto, I Say ToMAHto

Things always get a little heated in the nation's capital this time of year. July and August along the Potomac tend to be humid and steamy and that makes it hard for anyone to compromise and negotiate in a bipartisan way. Not to mention that it's ...

From PUNDITMOM, BlogHer,  31 Jul 2009

Related Topics: Valerie Jarrett,  Harry Truman,  Barack Obama,  U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party

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