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MOTHERS is a netroots community of mothers and other family caregivers who look after children or other dependent family members.
We promote social change to enchance the economic security of those who do carework, both exclusively or in conjunction with paid employment.
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MOTHERS BREAKING NEWS
Nov 6, 2008: Women's Vote Clinches Election Victory: 8 Million More Women than Men Voted for Obama, Institute for Women's Policy Research
Nationally, 56% of the women's votes were for Obama and 49% of the men's votes were for Obama. Nationwide, it is estimated that Senator Obama received 35,900,000 votes from women and 27,800,000 votes from men.
Nov 6, 2008: House Races Push Women's Numbers to New High, Women's eNews The number of women in the U.S. House of Representatives will reach a high of 74 when the victors of the elections take office in January. While there was a gain of 3 legislators, women's stake was not pushed into the 20 percent territory considered minimal for exerting significant voting bloc pressure.
Nov 6, 2008: Gender Gap Evident in the 2008 Election - Women, Unlike Men, Show Clear Preference for Obama over McCain, Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) Rutgers
Oct 15, 2008: 1 in 4 Working Families Now Low-Wage, Report Finds By Michael A. Fletcher, Washington Post Staff Writer
The ranks of low-wage working families increased by 350,000 between 2002 and 2006, raising their numbers to nearly 9.6 million, or more than one in four of the nation's working families with children.
Oct 14, 2008: Peaceful Revolution: Work Life: Moving from the Personal to the Political posted by Ellen Galinsky
"I am glad that the 2008 election has raised the issue of working families. This has been a "sleeper" issue, but no more! After the nomination of Sarah Palin, working families are responding in such high numbers that they are jamming the airwaves, filling up blogs, even crashing websites as they make their varying opinions heard! "
Oct 8 2008: Women’s Policy, Inc. (WPI) is has posted the 110th Congress At-A-Glance, a wrap-up of legislative activity important to women and their families.
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