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CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS
How U.S. paid maternity leave stacks up internationally. Hint: Not well. More info: here.
FACT: Women who voted for President Obama made up 29 percent—nearly one-third—of the electorate.
In the 2012 election, women made their voices heard in record numbers. Now it’s time to determine the agenda. We asked women from around the country what’s on their agenda the next four years. This is what they had to say.
(Source: americanprogress.org)
FYI: The age restriction to emergency contraception creates barriers not just for teens but also for adult women.
FYI: Women are sole or partial breadwinners in 2/3 families in the U.S.—Just another reason we need real paid family and medical leave.
Yet another reason to support paid family and medical leave: 66.3 percent U.S. new mothers with a bachelor’s degree or more are able to take paid maternity leave but, but just 18.5 percent of new moms with less than a high school diploma had access to paid leave after the birth of a child.
Cartoon by Matt Wuerker from the Cartoonist Group.
Take a glance at how women of color are doing: They are are a key growing demographic in the United States, representing approximately 36 percent of the female population and about 18 percent of the U.S. population based on Census data.
(source: Center for American Progress)
Your cartoon of the day!
By Mike Peters
From the Cartoonist Group.
(Source: americanprogress.org)
