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Stories by Allison Stevens

Congress Sets Sights on Closing the Wage Gap

More than 40 years after Congress passed a law making it illegal for employers to pay women less than men for the same work, women still earn less.
Posted on Jan 23, 2009, Source: Women's eNews

The Push to Appoint Women to Obama's Cabinet Is Threatened

Women's rights advocates are scrambling to make up for an unexpected shortage of cash to fund a push for female appointees to Obama's Cabinet.
Posted on Nov 23, 2008, Source: Women's eNews

Women Could Reach 'Critical Mass' in Congress

Women could pick up as many as 13 seats on Election Day.
Posted on Oct 21, 2008, Source: Women's eNews

Let's Just Say You Had $700 Billion to Spend

A look at what we could do instead with $700 billion to spend fixing up our world.
Posted on Oct 9, 2008, Source: Women's eNews

Bailout or Not, Women Are Headed for Financial Trouble

Regardless of what happens on Wall Street, it looks like bad news for women.
Posted on Sep 26, 2008, Source: Women's eNews

Women's Agenda Storms Into Dem Convention

Women around the country are becoming engaged in politics like never before.
Posted on Aug 26, 2008, Source: Women's eNews

Female Politicians in Comeback Runs Are Breaking Records

Sixteen women who lost congressional races in 2006 are running again. This could mark a new era in the evolution of the female political candidate.
Posted on Aug 2, 2008, Source: Women's eNews

Women Give Dems Big Bucks, Get Little in Return

Women are making record campaign contributions, so why are campaign agendas still mute on child care, birth control and domestic violence?
Posted on Apr 9, 2008, Source: Women's eNews

Huckabee Mines South Carolina's Anti-Choice Supporters

In the GOP field McCain, Huckabee and Thompson are battling for the staunch anti-abortion vote in South Carolina's pivotal Jan. 19 primary.
Posted on Jan 14, 2008, Source: Women's eNews

Women's Health on the Holiday Wish List

Women's health advocates want to reach bipartisan compromises on reproductive health bills before the 2008 presidential election polarizes Congress.
Posted on Dec 7, 2007, Source: Women's eNews

The Politics of Stillbirth

A new movement seeks to award special certificates to fetuses that are stillborn, but pro-choice advocates worry that this is yet another step toward fetal personhood that could endanger abortion rights.
Posted on Jul 31, 2007, Source: The American Prospect

Strategic Gains Nurture Bolder Anti-Choice Moves

Some Georgia legislators want their state constitution to recognize embryos and fetuses as persons from the moment of conception. It's a sign of a widening strategic divide within the anti-choice movement.
Posted on Jun 12, 2007, Source: Women's eNews

Bush May Veto Bill That Would Help Protect Hate Crime Victims

Women could stand to gain substantially from a law that would expand hate crime definitions to include gender, sexual orientation and disability. But will the legislation stand a chance?
Posted on May 18, 2007, Source: Women's eNews

New Bill Would Help Domestic Violence Victims

A new bill being drafted by Sen. Biden would create a network of 100,000 legal volunteers to work on behalf of domestic violence victims.
Posted on Jan 15, 2007, Source: Women's eNews

New Hope For a Woman's Right to Choose

The Hyde Amendment has prevented federal funding of abortion services to low-income women for three decades. Now that its namesake has left Congress, pro-choicers are campaigning to dismantle it.
Posted on Jan 10, 2007, Source: Women's eNews

Women Break the Gender Barrier in 2006 Elections

With Nancy Pelosi as the presumptive next House speaker, another woman Senator elected and at least another four Democratic women elected to the House, this was an election women can be proud of.
Posted on Nov 8, 2006, Source: Women's eNews

Female Vets Put Military Mettle in House Races

Four female veterans running for Congress are challenging stereotypes about women being weak on foreign policy.
Posted on Aug 7, 2006, Source: Women's eNews

Senate Bans Out-of-State Abortions for Teens

To pro-choicers' dismay, the Senate has approved a bill prohibiting anyone from taking a minor over state lines to avoid parental notification laws. What's next?
Posted on Jul 27, 2006, Source: Women's eNews

Female Base for Hillary in '08 Isn't A Gimme

Politically active women's groups are already attacking Hillary Clinton for supporting the Iraq war and backing an anti-choice Senate candidate.
Posted on Jun 27, 2006, Source: Women's eNews

Roberts Tips His Hand on Abortion

In the first abortion case before the Supreme Court, we get a glimpse at how our new chief justice might restrict abortion.
Posted on Dec 2, 2005, Source: Women's eNews

Miers Could Tip the Scales

Uncertainty about how Harriet Miers might vote on cases that challenge abortion rights has given those on both sides of the issue cause for concern.
Posted on Oct 11, 2005, Source: Women's eNews

Activists Against Roberts

Women's rights activists have been loudly protesting John Roberts' nomination for Supreme Court Justice -- but political observers say the conservative judge is likely to be confirmed.
Posted on Jul 22, 2005, Source: Women's eNews

Pro-Choice March Largest in History

More than a million demonstrators turned out for Sunday's March for Women's Lives, making it a historic day for reproductive rights.
Posted on Apr 25, 2004, Source: Women's eNews