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Gender Equality Is Achievable In Our Lifetime: New Book Reveals How Laws Directly Impact Equality And The Global Economy - Forbes - 3/21/23
Majority of countries guarantee paid paternity leave — but not the U.S. - Axios News - 2/28/23
Why 'stay home when sick' matters so much right now - CBC News - 11/21/22
Workers without sick pay or family leave quit during the pandemic more than those who had benefits, House report shows - NBC News - 10/25/22
México, entre los países con menos días de vacaciones para trabajadores - Forbes Mexico - 3/31/22
How does the U.S. compare to other countries on paid parental leave? Americans get 0 weeks. Estonians get more than 80 - Washington Post - 11/11/21
Parental Leave Is American Exceptionalism at Its Bleakest - The Atlantic - 11/9/21
Here’s What No Paid Parental Leave in the U.S. Looks Like - Bloomberg - 11/1/21
US trails on paid family leave - ABC News - 10/28/21
Only Six Countries Are as Stingy as U.S. About Paid Maternity Leave - Bloomberg - 10/27/21
The World ‘Has Found a Way to Do This’: The U.S. Lags on Paid Leave - New York Times - 10/25/21
Concrete Ways the U.S. Should Support Parents and Boost the Economy – Parents – 10/1/21
The US has terrible family policies. How do expats fare abroad? – The Guardian – 9/27/21
US 'lags behind' majority of high-income countries in protecting migrant children, new study finds – USA TODAY – 07/15/21
U.S. fails to guarantee health care, education for detained migrant children, UCLA study finds – San Francisco Chronicle – 7/13/21
‘A game-changing moment’: Chile constitution could set new gender equality standard – The Guardian – 5/14/21
The Roadblocks to Equal Rights for Women, a Century Later – New York Times – 3/17/21
Melinda Gates calls on Congress to pass paid family medical leave to bolster economic recovery – CNBC – 3/8/21
The Vaccine Rollout Will Take Time. Here's What The U.S. Can Do Now To Save Lives – NPR – 1/23/21
Column: The COVID relief bill isn’t nearly big enough – LA Times – 12/21/20
We need workers to stay home when they’re ill. It’s going to take universal sick leave – San Francisco Chronicle – 8/28/20
When it Comes to Constitutional Equality, the U.S. Lags Behind the Rest of the World – Ms. Magazine – 8/26/20
Workplace discrimination allowed in nearly one in four countries: study – Reuters – 7/6/20
Why should Congress improve paid leave policies? – The Hill – 6/16/20
America's pathetic sick leave policies are killing our coronavirus response - LA Times - 5/12/20
As coronavirus spreads, which U.S. workers have paid sick leave – and which don’t? – Pew Research Center – 3/12/20
Maternity leave: US policy is worst on list of the world's richest countries – The Guardian – 1/27/20
Why Brexit means Britain needs a written constitution – The Times – 1/23/20
Why Icelandic Dads Take Parental Leave and Japanese Dads Don’t – The Atlantic – 1/23/20
What a right to health could mean for the US - The Hill - 1/14/20
The US has fallen behind on equality of the sexes - CNN - 1/14/20
Most of the world’s constitutions guarantee more rights than America’s – Quartz – 1/14/20
Fact-Checking the November Democratic Debate – New York Times – 11/20/19
6 things other governments provide that Americans still have to pay for – Business Insider - 9/9/19
Gay fathers get less paid parental leave than other couples – Al-Jazeera – 9/5/19
Move to end sexual harassment at work hailed as 'milestone for women's rights' – The Guardian – 6/21/19
Lack of paid family leave, support at work partly to blame for 30-year low in fertility rates: Experts – ABC News – 1/12/19
Few countries offer free early childhood education, study finds – The Sector – 12/12/18
Will Others Follow Microsoft’s Lead on Paid Parental Leave? – WIRED – 8/31/18
Letters: If You Could Amend the Constitution – New York Times – 7/7/18
What’s Holding Women in Medicine Back from Leadershipv – Harvard Business Review – 6/19/18
This Map Compares Parental Leave Policies Around The Worldv – Fatherly – 6/15/18
Which Countries Guarantee That New Dads Get Paid Paternity Leave? - NPR - 6/14/18
2 in 3 infants live in countries where dads are not entitled to a single day of paid paternity leave – UNICEF – 6/13/18
Global treaty to take aim at workplace harassment – Reuters – 5/30/18
A New Study on Child Marriage Is Changing the Conversation – Teen Vogue – 4/25/18
A New Study Shows How Other Countries Are Making Paid Leave Work – Slate – 2/28/18
Commentary: When Sexual Harassment Is Legal – Fortune – 11/17/17
Twitter chat: How well are we protected from workplace discrimination? - PBS NewsHour - 11/1/17
Some 200 million women work without laws against sex harassment: study - Reuters - 10/27/17
Paid Maternity Leave for Teachers? California Is Considering It - Education Week - 9/28/17
Editorial: New family leave law would support strong families - Chicago Sun Times - 8/11/17
Paid Leave for Parents: What’s the Right Amount of Time? - CNN - 6/29/17
New York’s Child Marriage ‘Ban’ Still Doesn’t Protect Girls - Huffington Post - 6/21/17
How Much Paid Leave is Enough? - Slate, 6/19/17
How Is The World Treating People With Disabilities? - NPR - 12/18/16
Few countries offer constitutional protections for LGBT citizens - The Nation's Health - 9/1/16
On Your Mark, Give Birth, Go Back To Work - NPR - 10/4/16
Dads and Paternity Leave: Why They Should Take It - Metro Parent - 9/8/16
The world is getting better at paid maternity leave. The U.S. is not. - The Washington Post - 8/13/16
Paid Leave: What Ya Gonna Do About It? - Forbes - 7/20/16
Only five countries give LGBT people equal constitutional rights: research - Reuters - 6/29/16
America should follow Silicon Valley's lead on paid parental leave - Vox - 11/24/15
New Dads In Togo Are Guaranteed Something That U.S. Dads Aren't - NPR - 3/14/15
Twitter chat: What are the barriers to global gender equality? - PBS - 3/12/15
The Persistent Global Gender Gap in 5 Maps - National Geographic - 3/12/15
How far American women have come in the last 20 years — and how far they’re still behind - The Washington Post - 3/11/2015
A Strange Map of the World's Child-Marriage Laws - The Atlantic - 3/9/15
Roadmap to equality: Are women better off than 20 years ago? - LA Times - 3/9/15
Child Marriages, Less Pay: The World for Women Is Still Unequal - Newsweek - 3/9/15
Why won’t the U.S. ratify the U.N.’s child rights treaty? - The Washington Post - 11/21/14
Children’s rights being ‘violated with impunity’ - The Guardian - 11/20/14
Twitter chat: Are children’s rights better protected today than they were 25 years ago? - PBS - 11/20/14
Are Children Better Off Today Than 25 Years Ago? Yes and No, New Report Says - Newsweek - 11/19/14
Why Now Is the Right Time to Discuss Paid Maternity Leave - Vogue - 10/16/14
Will the U.S. finally make paid parental leave a priority? - Fast Company - 10/2/14
Twitter chat: Why does the U.S. lag behind in its family leave laws? - PBS - 8/14/14
A Map of Maternity Leave Policies Around the World - The Atlantic - 6/20/14
If America really valued mothers, we wouldn’t treat them like this - Vox - 5/12/14
Washington Could Be First State to Legalize Vacations - Huffington Post - 1/22/14
Paid family leave for all, right now - NY Daily News - 1/15/14
Moms who breastfeed deserve a break at work - Montreal Gazette - 10/22/13
New infographic! What do laws around the world say on age of marriage for girls? - Girls Not Brides - 10/10/13
Why breastfeeding breaks at work pay off - Ottawa Citizen - 10/7/13
Two weeks after baby? More new moms cut maternity leave short - NBC TODAY - 9/27/13
“Countries That Do Not Legally Protect Children From Hazardous Work” Infographic - The Child Labor Coalition - 8/26/13
Ecco come è la vita dei bambini del mondo - Corriere della Sera - 6/27/13
Mapping children’s chances - BBC - 6/26/13
Best Father’s Day Gift? - HRW - 6/16/13
Paid leave lets dads build parenting foundation - CNN - 6/16/13
Mark Mother’s Day by Reforming Family Leave Laws in US - HRW - 5/9/13
Gobernar para los niños - Red del Tercer Mundo - 4/12/13
The U.S.’s low standards for teacher training - Slate - 3/21/13
World Policy Analysis Centre tracks laws addressing poverty reduction - Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative - 3/8/13
Choices between work and home still a problem - NPR - 3/6/13
Grains of truth: good policy can give children a future - The Age - 3/1/13
In paid family leave, U.S. trails much of the world - The New York Times - 2/22/13
El valor del secundario - Norte - 2/18/13
Why Gender Equality Stalled - The New York Times - 2/16/13
Giving children a chance - The Lancet - 2/16/13
Map of the Day: Where Girls Marry Younger than Boys - UN Dispatch - 2/15/13
Global snapshot of children’s chances - BMA - 2/13/13
Un tercio de paises del mundo cobra la educacion secundaria - Terra - 2/13/13
Un tercio de los países sigue cobrando matrícula para toda o alguna parte de la educación secundaria, según un informe - La Voz Libre - 2/13/13
Angola e Moçambique também lideram em políticas de proteção das crianças - RTP - 2/13/13
Kebijakan yang Salah Hambat Perkembangan Kesehatan Jutaan Anak di Dunia - Voice of America (Bahasa Indonesia) - 2/13/13
New report highlights global governments’ failure to support family-friendly policies - Medical Press - 2/13/13
Key risks to children’s health are socioeconomic, says global health report - BMJ - 2/13/13
A New Report: “Changing Children’s Chances” - Association for Women’s Rights in Development - 2/13/13
Neue internationale Studie: Die Welt muss mehr für Familien tun - RTL - 2/13/13
Investing in Kids Isn’t Rocket Science - Inter Press Service News Agency - 2/13/13
World Must Make Secondary Education Free for All - AlertNet - 2/13/13
Studie zur Familienpolitik: Viele Lehrer wissen kaum mehr als ihre Schüler - Tagesschau - 2/13/13
Verfassungsrechtler kritisiert Belastungen für deutsche Familien - Hamburger Abendblatt - 2/13/13
Africa ‘must think big for its children’ - CNN - 2/13/13
Report: African Children Need ‘Education Friendly’ Laws to Thrive - Voice of America - 2/13/13
CHILD POLICY DATA: Changing Children’s Chances - new research launched - Child Rights International Network - 2/12/13