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Megan Tackney, Outreach Manager for Health and Reproductive Rights

Megan Tackney is Outreach Manager for Health and Reproductive Rights at the National Women's Law Center and Campaign Manager for This is Personal. She holds an M.P.A in human rights from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and a B.A. in International Affairs from George Washington University. She has formerly worked with Planned Parenthood Global, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC), the Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE), and Safe in Hunterdon. She touts activism and unbounded passion as essential parts of her life.

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Fair Pay Act of 2009

Posted by Megan Tackney, Outreach Manager for Health and Reproductive Rights | Posted on: May 01, 2009 at 06:48 pm

by Megan Tackney, Program Assistant,
National Women's Law Center 

On this year’s Equal Pay Day, April 28, Senator Harkin from Iowa introduced the Fair Pay Act of 2009. A critical advancement in the fight for pay equity, this bill works to address pay differences between male and female dominated jobs.

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Unequal Pay Ruined My Relationship

Posted by Megan Tackney, Outreach Manager for Health and Reproductive Rights | Posted on: April 28, 2009 at 06:00 pm

by Megan Tackney, Program Assistant, 
National Women’s Law Center 

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We Remember on December 6th

Posted by Megan Tackney, Outreach Manager for Health and Reproductive Rights | Posted on: December 06, 2008 at 09:07 pm

by Megan Tackney, Program Assistant
National Women's Law Center

We remember that on December 6th, 1989, fourteen women at the University of Montreal’s School of Engineering were murdered by a 25-year-old man, who was angry that women were being accepted into the program. Before his own death he left a detailed letter that attacked and targeted prominent female leaders. The event was marked as the Montreal Massacre.

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