Danielle Jackson, Online Outreach Associate

Danielle Jackson, Online Outreach Associate

Danielle Jackson is the Online Outreach Associate for the National Women's Law Center. She is responsible for maintaining the NWLC's social media and blog presence. Prior to joining the NWLC, she served as the New Media Assistant at EMILY's List, after graduating from Syracuse University with a B.A. in Political Science. While not at work, Ms. Jackson enjoys rooting on her favorite Syracuse Orange and Philadelphia sports teams, listening to music and concert going, and trying to get her friends as riled up about politics as she is.

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NWLC’s Weekly Roundup: April 30 – May 4

Posted by Danielle Jackson, Online Outreach Associate | Posted on: May 04, 2012 at 05:05 pm

We’ve hit May, and I hope you know what that means: time for new ads promoting great prices on things to buy to show Mom your undying adoration of her. So now I want to ask:

Really, Verizon Wireless? REALLY? This is your Mother’s Day commercial?

Let’s celebrate Mother’s Day with buckets of tears and deals on phones! Um, no thanks.

(On a semi-related note: if anyone in my family spent any time crying this week that had anything remotely to do with Verizon Wireless, it was probably my dad crying tears of joy after I finally broke my cell phone line away from his account and onto my own.)

UPDATE, May 7: Looks like Verizon has edited their ad. You can still watch the clip above for the original, but check out this altered version that was added to Verizon Wireless’ YouTube page on Friday:

 

In other news, Rachel Maddow has been on a tear concerning equal pay this week. Read more...

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NWLC’s Weekly Roundup: April 23 – 27

Posted by Danielle Jackson, Online Outreach Associate | Posted on: April 27, 2012 at 05:05 pm

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.

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Tags: Birth Control, Emergency Contraception, Emergency Contraception (Plan B), Equal Pay, Family Planning, Health Care & Reproductive Rights | 1 comment

NWLC's Weekly Roundup: April 16 - 20

Posted by Danielle Jackson, Online Outreach Associate | Posted on: April 20, 2012 at 05:15 pm

It’s the end of another week – so you know  it means another roundup is ahead! Here’s what’s on tap: Sara Ganim, one of the youngest-ever winners of the Pulitzer Prize, a new boundary-pushing character on Glee, and one Australian company’s decision regarding new mothers.

First up: on Monday Sara Ganim – the 24-year-old reporter who helped break the Penn State/Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal for The Patriot-News in Harrisburg, PA – was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for local reporting along with other members of the newspaper’s staff. This makes her one of the youngest journalists ever to win the award.

Ganim has been covering this story since she was 22, long before it broke over national media last fall. She graduated from Penn Stare in 2008 and immediately continued to pursue a career in journalism – something she says she’s been doing since the age of 15. The Baltimore Sun even say that Ganim’s work is “[e]very bit comparable to the guts and drive of The Washington Post in breaking the Watergate scandal,” – especially since she broke this story well before leading sports network ESPN did.

Next up for Ganim? She’ll be covering Jerry Sandusky’s trial when it begins early in June.

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Blog for Equal Pay Day 2012 – The Posts

Posted by Danielle Jackson, Online Outreach Associate | Posted on: April 17, 2012 at 10:06 am

Blog for Equal Pay DayToday is Equal Pay Day! This year we’re co-hosting our annual Blog for Equal Pay Day blog carnival with MomsRising to get bloggers talking about the need to close the wage gap and secure equal pay for women.

After the jump, you’ll find links to blog carnival posts from NWLC staff members and from our participants. Keep checking back here for the latest posts!

Have a blog you’d like to submit to the blog carnival? Leave a link in the comments section on this post or email it to djackson@nwlc.org.

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Tags: Equal Pay, Wage Gap, Equal Pay and the Wage Gap, Employment | 9 comments

NWLC’s Weekly Roundup: April 9 – 13

Posted by Danielle Jackson, Online Outreach Associate | Posted on: April 13, 2012 at 05:21 pm

 Are we living in 2012 or 1950? I pondered that thought a lot while reading some of the stories in this week’s roundup. Today we have some stories on a pregnancy-based firing in Texas, a Wisconsin legislator’s explanation of the wage gap, and more.

First up, in ridiculous news: a teacher in the Dallas, TX was fired for her out-of-wedlock pregnancy.

Welcome back to 1950!

Cathy Samford – a science teacher and the volleyball coach at Heritage Christian Academy – was fired last fall after disclosing her pregnancy to the Christian school she worked for. She and her fiancé, her baby’s father, had been planning on getting married later this year.

School headmaster Dr. Ron Taylor defends firing Samford, explaining the Heritage Christian Academy “expects their teachers to be ministers as well as educators,” and went on to add that “It's not that she's pregnant. The issue here is being an unmarried mother.”

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Tags: EEOC, Equal Pay, Pregnancy, Wage Gap, Equal Pay and the Wage Gap, Pregnancy, Parenting, and the Workplace, Employment | 2 comments