Women’s issues

  • Save a Mother’s Life – Talk About Maternal Death

    When I almost died in childbirth, I was blissfully unaware. I was captivated by the lights and sounds of the ambulance and said to the EMT, “Code Blue…that’s serious, isn’t it?!” It never crossed my mind that I might die, that two women, women like me, die from pregnancy-related complications every day in the US. [...]

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    Women in the World Meet Mothers in the World

    Bringing new life into the world can be risky business for moms and the babies they carry. Maternal and infant mortality are global tragedies, but the real tragedy is we know how to prevent most of these deaths. This is the abstract to the panel I am participating in today as part of the Women [...]

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    Expansion: Seeing the Brilliance Through the Cracks

    Nine years ago in her Brooklyn studio, the sculptor Paige Bradley took a wax sculpture she had been working on for months – a 6 foot figure of a womanseated in meditation – and deliberately smashed it against the floor. It took Paige weeks to slowly piece it back together but the resulting sculpture, Expansion, [...]

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    One Billion Rising: Join V-Day on 02.14.13 in a Global Stri

    About 1 Billion Rising ONE IN THREE WOMEN ON THE PLANET WILL BE RAPED OR BEATEN IN HER LIFETIME. ONE BILLION WOMEN VIOLATED IS AN ATROCITY ONE BILLION WOMEN DANCING IS A REVOLUTION On V-Day’s 15th Anniversary, 2.14.13, we are inviting ONE BILLION women and those who love them to WALK OUT, DANCE, RISE UP, and [...]

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    The Best and Worst Places in the Industrialized World for Br

    Every year, the non-profit organization and registered charity Save the Children looks at the health status, nutrition, education, economic well-being and political participation of women around the world to come up with their annual  State of the World’s Mothers report. Along with providing rankings for 165 countries around the world, each report has a different [...]