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  • The Difference Women’s Leadership Can Make: The African Medical Research Foundation
    Friday, April 22, 2011 - 11:56am
    By Linda BaschNow a week after the AMREF luncheon, I want to share why I’m still feeling so inspired.At the luncheon we learned about AMREF’S impressive work in improving health care in...

  • Equal Pay: Why Aren't We There Yet?
    Thursday, April 14, 2011 - 12:14pm
    As we've discussed here on The Real Deal, Tuesday was Equal Pay Day, a day established in 1996 to raise awareness around the persistent gap between men's and women's wages. According to the National...

  • NYC Lags Behind the Private Sector in Pay Equity
    Wednesday, April 13, 2011 - 5:44pm
    By Carrie Wolfson*The NYC Comptroller, John Liu, timed the release of his report Snapshot: Gender Equity in the New York City Municipal Workforce to coincide with Equal Pay Day. The Comptroller,...

  • Mind the (Gender Wage) Gap
    Tuesday, April 12, 2011 - 4:50pm
    By Kate Meyer*I am a young woman at the start of my career. Like many other young women my age, I’ve benefited greatly from previous generations’ struggles for equality. We grew up in era...

  • Saying "No" to All-Male Corporate Boards
    Friday, April 8, 2011 - 11:02am
    Later this afternoon, NCRW President Linda Basch will giving remarks at the Women's Funding Network conference, The Power of Global Networks, on the importance of investing with a gender lens. She'll...

  • Living Wages and Economic Security Out of Reach for Many Americans
    Tuesday, April 5, 2011 - 6:25pm
    *By Kate MeyerThe recently released report The Basic Economic Security Tables for the United States by Wider Opportunities for Women (WOW) is attracting a lot of attention, though its findings are...

  • Looking to Women in America for Solutions
    Monday, April 4, 2011 - 5:13pm
    *By Kate MeyerLast week Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisor to President Obama and Chair of the White House Council on Women and Girls, and Preeta Bansal, General Counsel and Senior Policy Advisor in the...

  • FAST FACT: LGBT Health Edition
    Friday, April 1, 2011 - 12:08pm
    By Kyla Bender-BairdThis week has been National LGBTQ Health Awareness Week. All week I've been keeping my eye open for a fact to feature in honor of this important week.  Well, last night...

  • Poverty Measurements Need a Facelift
    Wednesday, March 30, 2011 - 5:20pm
    By Carrie Wolfson*Tuesday, March 29, proved to be an important day for advancing our understanding of poverty, with two unaffiliated events tackling different aspects of this important issue. The...

  • Geraldine Ferraro: Toughness and Fearlessness Rooted in Hardship
    Monday, March 28, 2011 - 4:40pm
    By Vivienne Heston-DemirelThe career of Geraldine Ferraro was remarkable, not only because of her nomination as Democratic vice presidential candidate in 1984, but because of her stellar...

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