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What Else Do You Need To Know About Mother’s Day?

Mother’s Day as a national holiday in the U.S. turns 103 this year, and its popularity as a special day for Mom has spread widely around the world. The holiday’s popularity with Americans is amply...

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Sometimes Being A New Mother Hurts

This month’s guest post is by Joy Burkhard, a founder, Executive Director and Board Chair of 2020 Mom, a national nonprofit dedicated to closing gaps in maternal mental health care through convening,...

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An Astronaut Who’s Down-to-Earth

Executive Director Susan Danish reflects on her recent attendance of the World Cornerstone Conference in Tel Aviv. Read her latest Huffington Post piece here.… Read more

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Beyond the ‘Baby Blues’

This is the second guest post by Joy Burkhard, a founder, Executive Director and Board Chair of 2020 Mom, a national nonprofit dedicated to closing gaps in maternal mental health care through...

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Never tell a woman something can’t be done

  This guest post is by Lynn Yeakel, founder and president of Vision 2020, a national coalition of organizations and individuals working together to achieve economic, political and social equality for...

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It All Began in a Place Called Seneca Falls

American women gained the right to vote in 1920, with the adoption of the 19th Amendment and its ban on denying women the right to vote on the basis of sex. But the road to women’s suffrage actually...

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It’s National Domestic Violence Awareness Month

This guest post is co-authored by MariBen Ramsey and Christine Benero. MariBen Ramsey is the Secretary of The National Domestic Violence Hotline. MariBen is a long-time member of the Junior League of...

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It’s a Global Problem. (Color It Orange)

It’s no secret that the one of the greatest weapons we have against society’s most horrific problems is public awareness of the issue in terms of its dimensions and the consequences for victims....

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We need more women in politics!

  How about that for a post-election analysis? And the nice thing is, it’s a true call whether you’re from a blue state or a red state. Consider these statistics: Prior to election day 2016, 104 women...

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Sometimes change takes a while

Human trafficking has been high on the legislative agenda of the Junior Leagues of the State of New York State Public Affairs Committee since 2006, when NYSPAC members urged members of the New York...

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Moving the Needle on Human Trafficking in Your Community and Across the U.S.

Today’s guest post is from Courtney Walsh currently serves as Manager of Corporate and Strategic Partnerships at  Polaris, where she works with companies on shared value initiatives to combat human...

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50/50 in 2020

As a women’s organization with over one hundred years of history, The Junior League is proud to celebrate the achievements and gains women have made since our founding in 1901. Yet, there is still work...

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Building a Community in Kenya

Today’s guest post is from Jen Saprito, founder and Executive Director of Uweza Foundation, who talks about how a scholarship from a Junior League in Illinois led to a life change for the young woman...

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How Was Your National Women’s History Month?

National Women’s History Month is over…and I’m exhausted. So many events, so many conversations, so little time. So what’s the impact? What I find most interesting about participating in the many...

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Let’s talk about something we don’t talk about much. Period.

April 7th was the World Health Organization’s World Health Day; what better time to talk about menstrual health and hygiene? The traditionally taboo nature of this topic is changing. One sign of that...

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What does it mean to ‘work together’?

It’s no secret that Junior League members can accomplish more together than they can as individuals. And the same goes for their Junior Leagues when they band together as powerful issues advocates as...

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Education about menstruation changes everything!

Education is the theme of this year’s Menstrual Hygiene Day, which is celebrated annually on May 28. Menstrual Hygiene Day was initiated by the nonprofit WASH United in 2014 to build awareness of the...

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Will We Finish What the Suffragettes Started?

Women’s Equality Day, celebrated in the United States every year on August 26th, is the country’s moment to acknowledge the passage of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote.  On this day,...

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It’s Just Equality

Even when you know how a movie is going to end, the real satisfaction comes in watching how the story unfolds. When I got the chance to attend an advance screening of Battle of the Sexes, I couldn’t...

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Sometimes change takes a while

Human trafficking has been high on the legislative agenda of the Junior Leagues of the State of New York State Public Affairs Committee since 2006, when NYSPAC members urged members of the New York...

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