The policy director for Connecticut’s Permanent Commission on the Status of Women, Natasha Pierre of Windsor, will become the state’s new Victim Advocate, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced Monday.
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Senate Democratic aide tapped to lead women’s issues advocacy office
Treiss, 44, who has been the policy director for the Senate Democrats, was tapped by the state Office of Legislative Management after being screened by a bipartisan panel.
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Malloy hedges on expansion of paid sick days
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy says fears over a ground-breaking state law mandating paid sick days were unrealized, but he demurred when asked Tuesday if he is ready to seek an expansion of a law that now has a limited reach.
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CT women’s groups, politicians, decry high court’s Hobby Lobby decision
WASHINGTON – To opponents of the Affordable Care Act, it’s a political victory, but to Connecticut women’s rights groups and its Democratic politicians, the Supreme Court decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby will erode a woman’s right to contraception.
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Teresa Younger to run Ms. Foundation for Women
Teresa Younger, the executive director of the Permanent Commission on the Status of Women, is resigning to lead the Ms. Foundation for Women, the nonprofit founded by Gloria Steinem and others at the height of the feminist movement.