NWLC’s Weekly Roundup: April 23 – 27

While we’re still squabbling stateside about emergency contraception, women in London can now order Plan B online to be delivered to their home or office via bike messenger. (Note that we’re talking about Plan B, the “morning after pill,” not mifepristone, the chemical abortion pill that can end pregnancy of up to seven weeks, as Irin Carmon outlines at Slate.)

According to The Daily News, here’s how London-based women can obtain EC through this new service:

To get the emergency contraceptive in your hands quickly, the £20 (24 euros) service involves filling out a short online form that is assessed by an online doctor, with the prescription delivered by courier in as little as two hours.

I guess London didn’t want to be outdone by the vending machine in a university health center that distributes Plan B.

And here I thought it was handy that time I needed an urgent prescription refill the day I was leaving on a trip and was able to call my doctor’s office for a refill which was faxed over to my local CVS so I could pick it up on my way out of town.

We missed this one last week, but better late than never, right? As you probably know, April 17 was Equal Pay Day, and in our annual blog carnival our IT director, Jessica White, shared her story about how she successfully made her case for a pay raise. And while Jessica went into her meetings with a specific number in mind – backed by prior research she’d done – for some of us, figuring out the numbers isn’t as easy. We might think we deserve a pay raise… but we’re not sure how much to ask for. So when I saw the headline “Women: Calculate How to Achieve Your Target Salary Online” while reading up on other things on Mashable, I had to check it out.

Turns out, this tool is a microsite put together by the Levo League, who encourage women to use Equal Pay Day as an opportunity to ask for those pay raises. The microsite – ask4more2day – lets you input your current salary to the closest increment of $5,000, your target salary, and in how many years you’d like to earn to earn that target salary. Ask4more2day then crunches the numbers to figure out how much of a raise you’d need to ask for each year. So, for example, if you currently earn $30,000 a year and want to be earning $150,000 20 years from now, you’d need to ask for a raise of 8.38% each year. That boils down to about $1.26 more an hour for just this year.

Learn more now by visiting the microsite.

Also of interest this week:
Women at Work: Can Startups Level the Playing Field? [INFOGRAPHIC]
Why Do They Hate Us? The real war on women is in the Middle East.
Vanessa Williams Is an Unapologetic Badass When Talking About Her Abortion
Why We Shouldn’t Make Jokes About Rape or Sandwiches
The Criminalization of Bad Mothers
Watch Our New Video: They're Coming After Our Birth Control
What it Takes to Live on Minimum Wage: Your Stories
Three Things You Should Know About the Future of Social Security

That’s all for this week! What have you been reading? Let us know by sharing a link in the comments or emailing it to me at djackson(at)nwlc(dot)org.