A Senator with Heart
Senator Jehlen sees today's parents facing impossible choices between caring for family or losing their jobs.
Pat Jehlen
Somerville, MA
Added: July 20, 2008
Pat is in these Series:
Family Values @ Work | Go Moms! | Women's Voices |
Associated Tags:
Women's Leadership | Working Families |
Change doesn't happen through one voice, one charismatic leader, or one amazing organization (or even a really great archive!). Change begins when each of shares a positive thought, a brave hope, or an inspiring story with friends, family, and our communities, asking open-ended questions, and then beginning a dialogue that just might lead to some action.
With a projector, through a webinar or conference call, or gathered round a computer, you can host a screening of 3 to 5 of your favorite 1000 Voices storytellers. The stories and tools can focus discussions, rally support for a local effort, or help describe the impact of policies on real people.
Sure, you can share these films at a Beltway briefing or a townhall meeting. But why not make it a potluck dinner, a "powergirl's night," or a brownbag lunch with co-workers? Or have a vote to decide whose story the group liked best and why, and let us know.
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Created by some of the most effective, most respected organizations on the issues related to this video, these resources can help guide discussions at your screening event.
10 Simple Ideas To Empower Women
Simple tips for empowering women, and how men can help.
Tomorrow's leaders need to understand the power of the story. If you're a high school or college leader or educator, here are materials, created by education experts that untap the video's dialogue potential in classroom discussions and assignments.
PBS: Women Today: An Editorial
Consider women's fight for equal rights, in the past and today. Write an editorial about a topic relating to the women's rights movement and the issues presently surrounding women's rights in America and around the world.
PBS: Women's Issues Then and Now
Investigate important women's issues of the present time and compare those issues to the ones that women fought for in the 1970s. Grades 9-12.
Here is information specifically designed for grassroots organizers on issues related to this video.
10 Things That Could Happen to You
10 Things That Could Happen to You If You Didn't Have Paid Sick Days. A publication of 9to5, National Association of Working Women provides real-life experiences of workers who do not have paid sick days.
PI: Children, Youth and Families
Children, Youth, and Families office supports the work of the American Psychological Association's Committee on Children, Youth, and Families and liaisons with interested divisions, state associations, other organizations and federal agencies.
Center for Community Change: Crossing Borders
Crossing Borders is written for organizers and leaders, in particular those who want to build power and community among people who are different--people who don't look alike, talk alike and haven't lived alike.
100+ Ideas to Promote Gender Equity in Schools and Beyond
This list includes more than 100 ways for you to break gender barriers, from the Myra Sadker Foundation.
Women's Voices Count! - Action Alert
Write to your leaders directly to urge them to do what they can to place more women in visible leadership roles in government, our media, and in the places where decisions that affect our lives get made. This Action Alert will send a personal letter right to their inboxes.
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