The Washington Times, November 4, 2009 by Andrea Billups
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/nov/04/women-lead-seismic-shift/
“We’ve come a long way, but not far enough,” said Ann O’Leary, the study’s co-author…. Miss O’Leary called on government and businesses to step up and help workers through updated labor standards and laws that are comprehensive enough to meet the emerging needs of both men and women.
-NBC Today, October 20, 2009 Hosts Al Roker and Natalie Morales
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33247001/
“Parents feel like this is their own private struggle and it’s so frustrating for them. They’re afraid to go to their employer and say, ‘Listen, I need some flexibility, or I need to know when I’m going to work.’ We’re the only industrialized country that doesn’t have paid maternity leave and we’re one of just a handful that doesn’t have paid parental leave for fathers.”
-KCRW, Which Way, L.A.? October 21, 2009 Host Warren Olney
http://www.kcrw.com/news/programs/ww/ww091021afghanistans_run-off
“One of the things that has changed so much is not only that women are half the workforce, but also mothers are breadwinners in two-thirds of families, meaning they’re making as much or more than their husbands, but they’re doing it on their own, or they’re contributing significantly to the family income. So, as you suggested, it changes everything about how we structure our daily lives and how we structure our work places.”
-The Montel Williams Show, October 22, 2009 Host Montel Williams
http://airamerica.com/ondemand/10-22-2009/montel-10-22-2009-09-04-01/
“Even though women are half the work force, they still are largely concentrated in jobs that are lower-paying. They are in the health care fields, and they are in the education fields, and our teachers and our health aids are just not paid the same respect that we should be giving them. So it’s a start, but we have a lot of work to do to ensure that women get paid what they should be for these jobs.”
San Jose Mercury News, May 13, 2009 by Michael Torrice
http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_12363638
The health care debate has happened largely behind closed doors in Washington without public discussions about policies’ advantages and disadvantages, said Ann O’Leary, executive director of the University of California-Berkeley’s Center on Health, Economic and Family Security. O’Leary believes politicians need to start discussing plans with the public. “A lot of this work could be undone without educating the public and growing public support,” she said.
Los Angeles Times, April 16, 2009 by Tina Daunt
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-cause16-2009apr16,0,5879875.story
This new project aims to produce a “Shriver Report” that also will assess the status of women in government, business, faith institutions and healthcare…. Shriver plans to take a hands-on role in the effortֽ but has enlisted a couple of pretty high-powered co-editorsֽ Center for American Progress senior economist Heather Boushey and Ann O’Learyֽ executive director of the Center on Healthֽ Economic & Family Security at the UC Berkeley School of Law.
San Francisco Chronicle, February 4, 2009 by Ann M. O’Leary
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/04/EDK215MH1U.DTL&type=printable
“Obama’s first bill signals the administration’s commitment to workplace equity. But in order to make serious progress on women’s equity and close the wage gap, Obama should urge Congress to act swiftly to expand job-protected family leave, ensure that workers have access to paid sick days, and provide incentives to states to follow California’s lead and adopt paid family leave (but make it even better than California’s law by ensuring that workers’ jobs are protected if they take the leave).”
KPIX-TV, January 30, 2009 by Joe Vasquez
http://cbs5.com/video/?id=45378@kpix.dayport.com
“It was a bit of a ridiculous notion that you would have to sue from the moment in which you were discriminated against, even though you had no knowledge whatsoever that you were being discriminated against…. One of the things that I was really heartened by today was that First Lady Michelle Obama made very clear that this bill was really just the cornerstone of their agenda for trying to help working women.”
San Francisco Chronicle, September 7, by Ann O’Leary
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/07/INB312NP52.DTL&type=printable
“Women will look to Palin not just for
her views on abortion or to see whether she is an individual success story as a working mother. They’ll want to know whether she will be a voice for women who are economically struggling to provide for their families…. But Gov. Palin has yet to show leadership or even take a position on key economic issues for women, including quality affordable child care, flexible workplaces, paid sick leave, extended family leave or equal pay.”