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woman-and man-power to keep feminism
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and well in our
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time fundraising we can be planning and carrying out
important women's rights actions in South Jersey.
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SJ NOW-Alice Paul
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Hill, NJ 08034
VOLUNTEER
TO ESCORT at a local women's center!
Contact
mrrickgray@gmail.com
or call the chapter phone at 856-778-8320.
CHECK OUT THE CALENDAR OF
EVENTS!
See link at
left.
SHOP ONLINE WITH THE
IGIVE.COM shopping window!
See below.
Chapter Program Meeting
Wednesday, August
13th -- 7 to 9 pm
First
Baptist
Church, 19
West Main Street,
Moorestown, NJ
The church is across from the
Commerce Bank; please use the side entrance, next
to
Carl's Shoes.
Please
join us for our August program on:
"Caring for Your Heart, Caring for
You"
with
Darlema Bey
CVT,
Virtua
Health
What do you think of when you
hear the phrase "heart disease?" Many of us still carry the
image of the the stereotypical heart attack: a man at the dinner table or
reading on the subway suddenly clutches his chest and falls to the
floor.
In fact, heart disease is not
sudden, but is stealthy, and kills more women than men (see
co-president's column below).
It’s never too early to care for your heart. Think of heart care as you
do your financial planning:
there is no reason not to start saving for your
retirement in your 20's.
Same goes for your cardiovascular health, and it is much
easier to maintain a lifelong
plan of exercise, lower stress, and good nutrition if you
incorporate the fundamentals as early as
possible.
It is
never too late, either, to make changes in your habits and reduce
your risk of heart problems.
For diagnosed patients, many can take steps to reduce future
damage. Join us for a
discussion of cardiac care with Darlema Bey of Virtua Health. After noticing a need for
more awareness among incoming patients, she has designed a community
outreach program to decrease fear of the disease and medical
procedures. It also
illustrates the affects of lifestyle changes on patient health. This is a great program for
all ages and will provide info many of us can use for ourselves and
for those we love.
Meetings are free and open to members and the
public.
Program includes: Refreshments, Chapter
Announcements & Issue
Letterwriting
Co-President's Column
"Have a Healthy Heart -- We're Worth
It!"
By Rita
Spaulding
For nearly the
past 25 years, more women have died of cardiac disease than men
making heart disease the # 1 killer among women. A staggering
one in every three women will die of heart disease.
Cardiovascular disease
presents itself differently in women. What's more, many cardiac
centers are focused squarely on men and often do not provide women
with the special attention they require. Only recently has the media
brought heart disease in women to the country's awareness. More and
more women are beginning to see that they need special care. They
know that they often must advocate for themselves in order to find
it.
In addition, with
all the amazing advances in medicine it's easy to lose sight of the
fact that good heart health also depends on our perspective on life
and how we choose to live it. As many women have known for years,
however, your health depends as much on your connection to the
friends, family and loved ones around you.
Of course, the
biggest connection of all is to yourself. If you take the time to
take care of yourself, and don't allow a busy schedule to prevent
you from exercising and keeping healthy eating habits, you're giving
yourself permission to lead the healthy life you
deserve.
As you continue
to reach for your health goals, remember to take a step back and see
how the choices you make each day can affect your health over time.
It's not hard to reduce your risk for heart disease. Start today
with small, simple actions.
Here are a few suggestions to help get you
started:
- Celebrate with a checkup. Let
each birthday remind you that it's time for your yearly checkup
and a talk with your doctor about how you can reduce your risk for
heart disease.
-
Get on your feet. Step, march or jog in place for at
least 30 minutes five days a
week.
-
Become a salt detective. Check
out the Nutrition Facts panel on packaged foods to see how much
sodium (salt) they contain.
-
Learn how to
read food package
labels to help you make healthier
choices. Look for the American Heart Association's
heart-check
mark on food packages in your
store. It's the heart on labels that you can
trust.
Heart disease is often avoidable. Finding ways to
incorporate heart-healthy habits into your lifestyle may well lead
you on your way to enjoying a healthier life for years to
come.
PHOTOS FROM OUR FEMINIST ESSAY CONTEST WINNERS'
PRESENTATION
MARCH 12th
2008
The winners from our 16th Annual South Jersey
NOW Feminist Essay Contest were 8th graders Alexander Ing,
Kelsey Blair, and Drew D'Avino from William Allen Middle School
in Moorestown. Please join us in congratulating them on their
achievement!
From
left to right, Alexander Ing, Kelsey Blair and Drew
D'Avino
Click here for more photos
Companies spend
billions of dollars each year on magazine ads and TV commercials to
try to get us to buy their products. They try to convince us
we need these products to be "o.k." (i.e., to be
cool, pretty, or popular). Write a letter to a friend.
Tell her why she doesn't need all these products to be "o.k."
Tell her two qualities that you feel are really important for girls
to have and explain why.
As it is every year, our essay presentation
night was inspiring and affirming!
IGIVE.COM
New from Igive.com!
A penny will be donated to the chapter every
time you use the new igive.com search engine. If you surf the web,
then this is no-brainer. Go to http://isearch.igive.com/ to
see how it works! Now through May 4th donations will be doubled to
$.02 for every search.
Do you love to
shop on the internet? Here's how you can help the chapter everytime you buy
online:
Use our
chapter joinlink to sign up for Igive.com
http://www.iGive.com/SJNOW
then download the Igive.com shopping window
http://www.igive.com/html/body_shopwindow.cfm
and percentages of your purchases will
automatically go to the chapter every time you shop online! No need
to login to a website or fuss around with passwords. The shopping
window will automatically pop up when you enter an online store
and your purchases will be recorded!
Barnes & Noble, LandsEnd and
1800Flowers, are just a few examples of the participating
online stores.
See a list of
the many online participating stores here:http://www.igive.com/html/merchantlist.cfm
Note, you must
register with Igive.com first for the shopping window link above to
work. To access the shopping window download through the www.Igive.com website, first register,
then click on the "shopping" link in the left-hand column, and
then click on "shop through the Igive.com shopping window" and
you'll be directed to the download.
Igive.com is compatible with most browsers and
operating systems. If you have technical problems with signing up or
downloading the "shopping window," please email
jja3975@comcast.net for assistance or leave a message on the
chapter phone 856-778-8320.
The 2007 March for Peace, Jobs &
Justice Saturday, August 25th,
2007
NOW-NJ and South Jersey NOW were front and center with
our banner and NOW rounds.
Click here for more photos.
The march commemorated the 44th anniversary of
the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs & Freedom; the 40th
anniversary of the Newark Rebellion (riots); and the 2nd anniversary
of Hurricane Katrina. In addition, we marched for a living wage,
healthcare for all and bringing the troops home.
4/2008 Family
Leave Insurance in New Jersey passes!
The legislation for which chapter members, in
concert with NOW-NJ and the Time to Care Coalition, as well as the
AFL-CIO, have so long advocated, has been voted out of the Senate
and is ready to be signed into law. Thank you to everyone who worked
so hard on making Family Leave Insurance a reality for NJ women and
their families!
Read more here: http://www.nj.com/expresstimes/stories/index.ssf?/base/news-7/120762880026720.xml&coll=2
4/2008 Title IX At
35: Beyond the Headlines! A Report of the National Coalition for
Women and Girls in Education (NCWGE)
A report that the NOW Foundation helped to prepared
which gives a brief overview of the gains made in the three and a
half decades since the milestone law was adopted. Information
on young womens progress in athletics programs, earnings and
promotions for educational professional opportunities (or lack
thereof) in career and technical education, sexual harassment and
other important topics. Go to http://www.ncwge.org/PDF/TitleIXat35.pdf for the full report.
10/2007 Want the real
facts on sexual and reproductive health myths, such as the alleged
link between abortion and breast cancer? Visit RH Reality Check and
find out the real truth:
http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/
10/2007 A new fact
sheet on rural mothers and employment is available from the Carsey
Institute at UNH
As men's jobs in traditional rural industries such as
agriculture, natural resource extraction, and manufacturing
disappear due to restructuring of rural labor markets, the survival
of the family increasingly depends on women's waged labor. Rural
mothers with children under age 6 have higher employment rates than
their urban counterparts, but have higher poverty rates, lower
wages, and lower family income, placing rural mothers and their
children in a more economically vulnerable situation than urban
mothers. http://www.carseyinstitute.unh.edu/FS_ruralmoms_07.htm
10/2007 Breastfeeding: It's Your Right
in New Jersey!
New Jersey law gives
every mother the right to breastfeed her child in any place that's
open to the public: restaurants, malls, parks, libraries, etc.
Report violations to the local health department. Violators may be
subject to fines. N.J.S.A. 26:4B-4, -5. For more information please visit the New Jersey
Breastfeeding Task Force, Inc.
www.breastfeedingnj.org
8/2007 Maternity Leave: Paid Parental
Leave is Still Not Standard, Even Among the Best U.S.
Employers
Institute on Women's Policy Research paper #B527
www.iwpr.org/pdf/parentalleave.pdf
5/23/2007 New Enforcement Guidelines on
Unlawful and Disparate Treatment of Workers with Caregiving and
Family Responsibilities Issued by the EEOC
Read this
important Q&A from the EEOC about your rights as a worker if you
have children or if you are caretaking for family members, e.g.
elderly parents or a disabled spouse. Click
below...
http://www.eeoc.gov/policy/docs/qanda_caregiving.html
Needed: Women's Stories About
Discrimination at Work
The WAGE Project is a new national organization dedicated to closing the
wage gap. WAGE stands for Women Are Getting Even. The WAGE Project is based
in Boston
and led by former Massachusetts Lt. Governor Evelyn Murphy, whose book,
Getting Even: Why Women Don't Get Paid Like Men and What To Do About It, will be published by
Simon and Schuster in October.
This April, WAGE will launch a new, interactive
website,
www.wageproject.org, that
will provide women and employers with many tools to eliminate gender
bias in the workplace. A centerpiece of the website will be a
collection of stories from women workers - those who feel they are
paid unfairly, those who have taken action to remedy workplace
injustices, and those who would like to improve their situations.
Through these stories, we hope to document the pervasive
discrimination that women still experience at work and to inspire
action to do something about it.
We
need your help now to build the initial collection of women's
stories. Have you, your colleagues, your friends, or members of your
family been paid less, been denied promotions, experienced sexual
harassment, and been treated differently in the workplace as a
woman? Has this discrimination affected your paycheck?
We
want to hear women's stories. Women's stories can be submitted to
wageproject.org/stories.
Our site is not yet open to the public so you will need to complete a form
requesting user id and password. The user id is WAGE; the password is new.
You may need to submit this information twice. For more information on the
WAGE Women1s Stories Project, e-mail Jennifer Jackman at
jjackman@wageproject.org
The
2006 NOW NJ Annual Women Making History Awards Banquet
Judy Buckman, chapter vp of administration, was
honored for her role as a founding board member of the Alice Paul
Centennial Foundation.
click here for larger picture
Dream Job: Stay-At-Home
Mom
So why do thousands
of career women nationwide opt to put their careers and
salary-earning potential on the back burner to stay home to care for
their children?
Learn why, according to
salary.com, a stay-at-home mom's annual salary should be $131,
471.
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