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		<title>Been Busy, But We&#8217;ll Be Back</title>
		<link>http://helloladies.com/2012/05/been-busy-but-well-be-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 10:58:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hello Ladies</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life&#8217;s a little busy, but we&#8217;ll get back to blogging soon. In the meantime, you can visit us on Pinterest, Facebook and Twitter. Have a great week. &#160; Source: fip.typepad.com via Hello_Ladies on Pinterest]]></description>
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		<title>Women at Work (Infographic)</title>
		<link>http://helloladies.com/2012/04/women-at-work-infographic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:47:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hello Ladies</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Misc.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via MBA@UNC MBA Online &#38; Women 2.0 Courtesy of the MBA@UNC, the online mba program at the University of North Carolina &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>A Lot of Chocolate; A Lot of Madness</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 10:08:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hello Ladies</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Feminist Forte]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chocolate Madness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[naral prochoice chocolate madness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prochoice]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: spreadshirt.co.uk via Hello_Ladies on Pinterest &#160; It&#8217;s Chocolate Madness day &#8211; one of my favorite days of the year. Chocolate Madness is a fundraiser for NARAL Pro-Choice Massachusetts, an advocate for privacy and a woman’s right to choose. Tickets are still available: call 617-556-8800 x14 until 3 p.m. today. Remaining tickets will be available at the door for $50. At Chocolate Madness, held inBoston&#8217;s Cyclorama, pro-choice supporters join together with top local pastry chefs, premier food critics, and celebrity chefs  for an evening of endless chocolate delights in support of reproductive choice. A panel of judges (including yours truly) will choose the top chocolate entry in five categories. Funds raised will ensure Massachusetts remains a safe haven for choice and reproductive liberty in one of the most anti-choice political climates in a generation.  Massachusetts is not immune to the attacks on reproductive rights sweeping the nation. A direct result of having lost 12 pro-choice seats in the 2010 elections, this current legislative session saw four new anti-choice bills introduced in the Commonwealth. NARAL Pro-Choice Massachusetts is working to defeat all anti-choice legislation and elect pro-choice legislators. Now more than ever we need to protect our reproductive rights. Visit NARAL Pro-Choice Massachusetts to learn more about how you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This is the Year to Close the Wage Gap</title>
		<link>http://helloladies.com/2012/04/this-is-the-year-to-close-the-wage-gap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:52:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hello Ladies</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Making Work Work]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[contraception is an economic issue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[election 2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[equal pay day 2012]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paycheck fairness act]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tuesday, April 17 is Equal Pay Day, again. Equal Pay Day 2009 was impetus for my starting this blog. That day I dropped my son at school; at my request he was wearing red – one of the ways activists observe the day. As he was filing into class, I turned to a group of mothers and noted how proud I was he was helping me observe the event. The women, including several who work outside the home, had never heard of the gender wage gap. I was shocked and thought to myself, “Hello ladies, you need to know this!” A blog was born. Back then, women earned, on average, just 77 cents for every dollar a man earned. Today women earn 77.4 cents. The current gap translates into $10,784 less per year in median earnings, and for women of color, the gap is even greater. African-American women earn, on average, 62 cents, and Hispanic women earn, on average 54 cents, for every dollar men earn. I can understand why some of my neighbors may not have been aware of the gap three years ago. For starters, women typically don’t talk about salaries. It’s frowned upon in the workplace and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Here&#8217;s to the Women in the Boston Marathon</title>
		<link>http://helloladies.com/2012/04/heres-to-the-women-in-the-boston-marathon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:13:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hello Ladies</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cheers to all of the runners in today&#8217;s Boston Marathon, but especially to the women. Today marks the 40th anniversary of women being allowed to run officially.  It’s hard to grasp the concept that in my lifetime women were banned from the race. Proof you can’t stop a woman runner, Roberta Gibb ran unofficially in 1966 and Katherine Switzer ran under the name K.V. Switzer in 1967. The image of Switzer being pushed aside by a race official when he realized she was a woman is a piece of marathon and women’s history. According to The Boston Globe, 11,462 women ran last year’s race, up from 1,219 in 1972. Run ladies, run. 7 Essential Items for Women Runners]]></description>
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		<title>Motherhood Is Not the Most Important Job</title>
		<link>http://helloladies.com/2012/04/motherhood-is-not-the-most-important-job/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 16:50:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hello Ladies</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ann Romeny]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[equal pay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fair pay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hilary Rosen apologizes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mommy warss]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve had a couple of days to watch the craziness that erupted after Democratic pundit Hilary Rosen said of Ann Romney on CNN, “She never worked a day in her life.”  Rosen, who has since apologized, was reacting to Governor Mitt Romney positioning his wife as his advisor on all-things-women including their views on the economy. In recent days Romney has told reporters, “My wife has the occasion, as you know, to campaign on her own and also with me and she reports to me regularly that the issue women care about most is the economy.” Well, golly, Mr. Governor! Of course we care about the economy. Even Governor Haley could have told you that. Of course Haley got it wrong when she said, “Women don’t care about contraception. They care about jobs and their families.” First of all, contraception and jobs are interrelated. And second, women are capable of caring about multiple topics at once. But as long as candidates view women as a special interest voting bloc, as opposed to half of the people in this country, they will continue to get it wrong when it comes to the “woman vote.” But women and the economy isn’t the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ignorant Legislator of the Week</title>
		<link>http://helloladies.com/2012/04/ignorant-legislator-of-the-week-8/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:03:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hello Ladies</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[sheryl sandberg leaves work at 5:30]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wisconsin repeals equal pay]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you know why women earn less than men? According to Senator Glenn Grothman of Wisconsin, this week&#8217;s Ignorant Legislator recipient, money isn&#8217;t as important to us as it is to men. Grothman told The Daily Beast&#8216;s Michelle Goldberg, &#8220;You could argue that money is more important for men. I think a guy in their first job, maybe because they expect to be a breadwinner someday, may be a little more money-conscious. To attribute everything to a so-called bias in the workplace is just not true.” And to attribute it to an outdated and sexist idea, Senator, is just not rational. According to the latest U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistic data, approximately 40 percent of working wives out earn their husbands. Grothman told Goldberg the gender wage gap was caused by women&#8217;s decisions to &#8220;prioritize childrearing over their careers,&#8221; and that the hypothetical working wife is “not go go go.&#8221; Grothman clearly hasn&#8217;t seen the time use data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics either. If he had, he might know, women, on average, do more household chores than men. This is a scenario that occurs regardless of work status. Of course, we wouldn&#8217;t expect Grothman to consider that lack of sick [...]]]></description>
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		<title>News from Around the Web</title>
		<link>http://helloladies.com/2012/04/news-from-around-the-web-16/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 15:48:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hello Ladies</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a roundup of news affecting women from around the web. Following the tragic shooting at an Oakland, Calif. college earlier this week, few news outlets are reporting what the Los Angeles Times has reported, &#8220;Gunman killed mostly women.&#8221; Six of the seven victims were women. The seventh was a man the gunman apparently shot in order to use the victim&#8217;s car to get away from the crime scene. The AP quoted one of the victim&#8217;s husbands as saying, &#8220;My wife was afraid of him. She was afraid he would do something like he did. She knew the other victims, and they talked about it. They were afraid that he was going to come back and do what he did.&#8221; What we don&#8217;t know is whether the gunman bypassed men to shoot only women, or whether there were mostly women on site at the time of the shooting. Either way, we think the mainstream media should at least examine this angle. Speaking of violence against women, some students working at the Boston University school newspaper, The Daily Free Press, ran an April Fools&#8217;s story about rape. Using a Disney theme for the issue, the story led with the news that seven frat dwarves allegedly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ignorant Legislator of the Week</title>
		<link>http://helloladies.com/2012/04/ignorant-legislator-of-the-week-7/</link>
		<comments>http://helloladies.com/2012/04/ignorant-legislator-of-the-week-7/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 14:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hello Ladies</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georgia fetal pain bill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[legislator compares women to calves and pigs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our Ignorant Legislator of the Week award goes to Georgia Representative Terry England for comments he made on the House floor earlier this week while debating HB 954, the &#8220;fetal pain&#8221; abortion bill which is on its way to the Georgia Governor to sign. I wish I could say this was an April Fool&#8217;s Joke, but a.) it happened in March and b.) it&#8217;s no joke. While debating HB 954, Georgia House Representative Terry England spoke about his experiences delivering calves and pigs dead and alive and how it breaks his heart. He also spoke of dog and hog hunting and chicken fighting. What am I talking about you ask? I have no idea. What was Rep. England talking about? Watch the clip. And then consider this statement on the gentleman from Georgia&#8217;s website: The roughly one minute and forty second clip that you saw posted online were only a small part of a contentious and heart-wrenching three hour debate that took place in the Georgia House of Representatives two weeks ago. If you watch the entire debate, you will see that Rep. England was making the point that we spend a great deal of time debating the value of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Win a Copy of &#8220;Drift&#8221; by Rachel Maddow</title>
		<link>http://helloladies.com/2012/03/win-a-copy-of-drift-by-rachel-maddow/</link>
		<comments>http://helloladies.com/2012/03/win-a-copy-of-drift-by-rachel-maddow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2012 18:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hello Ladies</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rachel Maddow's book Drift]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We have a brand new copy of Rachel Maddow&#8217;s book, &#8220;Drift, The Unmooring of American Military Power&#8221;  and we want to give it to you. All you have to do is click here and sign up for our RSS feed via email. We will select someone from the feed on Monday morning using RandomPicker.com The book, which has received great reviews, examines how being at war has become the new normal for the United States. It looks at the shifts that have happened since the 1970s and have made making war easier than it used to be. Maddow identifies theses changes as secrecy, the presidency taking on new power, Congress ceding power to the president and the changing size and shapes of the military. &#8220;Drift&#8221; is designed to spark a new debate about &#8220;how, when, and where to apply America&#8217;s strength and power&#8211;and who gets to make those decisions.&#8221; Enjoy the weekend. &#160; &#160;]]></description>
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