WOMEN IN THE WORKFORCE!

We discussed the struggles women still have in the workforce:

• Unequal pay for the same professions
• Women still make 73 cents to every dollar a man makes, which is 4 cents below the national average
• Maternity leave
• Childcare
• Balancing family or home life and work life
• The Equal pay act that was passed in 1963 still is not inforced or needs a final push

SAME-SEX marriage RIGHTS NOW!

13th de mayo:

Today, we discussed the rights that all persons no matter their gender have the rights to marry whomever they please.

We discussed the reasons why we should grant legal marriage unions to the LGBT communities:

• Legal guardianship for their children
• To be able to talk for their partners needs in hospital emergenciesIt's the right thing to do!
• Family togetherness
• Tax breaks, and son on.

The reasons that the same-sex issue is a feminist issue:

• Feminism is based on equal rights for all human beings so that would include marriage unions for everyone.
• The treatment of women, and men in the LGBT community can be linked to the same struggles that women have faced in a very white male dominated world we live in.

Women's Health: Beyond Contraceptives

While reproductive health and contraceptives are important issues, we wanted to take the time to stop and discuss other important health issues for women.

Heart disease is the leading cause of death in women. Did you know that?

Here are some statistics from the American Heart Association:

Heart Attack and Angina Statistics-

Final 2004 statistics for the United States show that coronary heart disease (CHD) is the single leading cause of death in America. CHD causes heart attack and angina.

Mortality — 451,326 deaths in the United States in 2004 (one of every five deaths).

Incidence — 1,200,000 new and recurrent coronary attacks per year. (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Atherosclerotic Risk in Communities [ARIC] Study and Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS). About 38 percent of people who experience a coronary attack in a given year die from it.

Prevalence — 16,000,000 victims of angina (chest pain due to coronary heart disease), heart attack and other forms of coronary heart disease are still living (8,700,000 males and 7,300,000 females).

From 1994 to 2004 the death rate from coronary heart disease declined 33 percent, but the actual number of deaths declined only 18 percent.

Estimates are that 9,100,000 people in the United States suffer from angina.

An estimated 500,000 new cases of stable angina occur each year. (Framingham Heart Study, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

The estimated age-adjusted prevalence of angina in women age 20 and older was 3.9 percent for non-Hispanic white women, 4.3 percent for non-Hispanic black women and 3.3 percent for Mexican-American women. Rates for men in these three groups were 4.8, 3.4 and 2.3 percent, respectively.*

Among adults in the United States age 20 and older, the estimated age-adjusted prevalence of coronary heart disease for non-Hispanic whites is 9.4 percent for men and 6.0 percent for women; for non-Hispanic blacks, 7.1 percent for men and 7.8 percent for women; and for Mexican-Americans, 5.6 percent for men and 5.3 percent for women.*

*Based on the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES, 1999–2004), National Center for Health Statistics and NHLBI.