In today’s rundown: The health care bill and you; a call to help single moms at welfare hearings; a new report on why there are so few women in science and math careers; and a Women’s Foundation’s Grantee Partner is losing its executive director to retirement.
— What does the health care bill mean for you, specifically? The Washington Post has a tool you can personalize to find out how you might be impacted. Click here to learn more.
— Women’s advocacy groups say the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program is failing and needs to be repaired. At welfare hearings last week, those advocates called for lawmakers to help single mothers, in particular. Click here for more.
— A new report on the underrepresentation of women in science and math says that although women have made gains in those subject matters, stereotypes and cultural bias still impede their success. Click here to read more about the report, titled “Why So Few?”
— After 26 years of serving as the executive director of The Child & Family Network Centers, Barbara Fox Mason is retiring. The Child & Family Network Centers — a Women’s Foundation Grantee Partner — was founded in 1984 by Barbara and a group of women living in a housing project in Virginia. Since then, it has become an award-winning agency serving more than 200 disadvantaged children every year.
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