I’ve written about maternal mortality and even I find it confusing sometimes. This is really helpful.

For the first time, the US government is trying to put a dollar figure on unpaid household work, nearly 80% of which is done by women. Turns out we’re contributing more than $3 trillion in unpaid labor each year. bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

Today's Bloomberg Equality newsletter from Claire Suddath is all about how pro-life Texas won't accommodate pregnant workers

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Texas said helping pregnant workers was too hard and would cost the AG’s office $6,700 to update its policies and stuff. (Texas has a $321 billion budget). A judge was like yeah, that’s quite the burden, you don’t have to follow federal law. bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

The Alabama Senate passed a bill that, among other things, says that you can’t teach that slavery and racism were founding principles of the US. That’s pretty rich given Alabama’s history of…slavery and racism. bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

This week's newsletter was inspired by the stomach bug. (Also, if anyone knows how to make furniture stop smelling faintly like throw up please let me know.) bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

If my preschooler hadn’t given me the stomach flu I’d be promoting this myself but instead I’m gonna just retweet and then go lie down again. Will next week’s column be about the need for paid sick leave? Maybe! 🤢

The House's proposed child tax credit would reduce child poverty. So why don't some Senators like it? trib.al/Frqnyjp

Within the last year I had a baby, my mom died, and I decided to write a book. I don’t know if this will involve less crying than the first two things but here’s hoping.

When Claire Suddath gave me the chance to work on a child care story for this week's issue of Businessweek I jumped at the chance.

I write about this often, but still learned so much! Take a look at the bad and the ugly of the landscape here. (Gift link) bloomberg.com/news/features/…

Introducing the Businessweek Equality Issue 2023!

Let's start with the opening essay by Claire Suddath, which sets the scene for an amazing lineup of stories that explore how real progress is something that rarely happens overnight.

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Wow.

Hello, it is I, College-Educated Working Mother who is reading an NBER paper on college-educated working mothers while simultaneously doing my job and texting with a local play space about gymnastics classes for my preschooler.

In 2021, the first full year after George Floyd's murder and the BLM protests, 88 S&P 100 companies added more than 300,000 jobs -- 94% of those went to people of color.

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