Weekly Round-Up

by Mary Robbins, Program Assistant
National Women’s Law Center

The New Jersey state Senate approved a bill Monday that would allow employees to take up to six weeks of paid family leave.   

Sheila Gibbons at Women’s eNews takes a look at the role and influence of female bloggers during the election season.

A Title IX complaint pertaining to publicity, scheduling, and equipment was filed against Central Bucks School District in Pennsylvania.

Female web users outnumbered male users for the first time last year, and Salon’s Broadsheet comments on the recent “women’s blog boom.”

Several posts on RH Reality Check criticize some medical schools’ reproductive health curricula. 

Equal Pay Week — the point in 2008 when the average woman’s wages finally catch up with what the average man earned in 2007 — is coming up soon. If you’re a blogger, sign up to Blog for Fair Pay this Friday. You can also show your Senators the Face of Pay Equity through the American Association of University Women’s new action initiative, and learn more about the fight for fair pay for women.