LatinaLista — Though women have gone into space, enlist in the military, sit on the Supreme Court, head up Fortune 500 companies and have even run for president of the United States, women still get paid less than men…
LatinaLista — For most young women, an unintended pregnancy is devastating news, especially if that young woman has already dreamt of college and career success. While having a baby doesn’t make those dreams unattainable, a baby in the house…
LatinaLista — There was a time when AIDS was considered an automatic death threat. With no viable treatment that ensured its victims a good quality of life as they battled the disease that slowly robbed them of their physical…
LatinaLista — Breast cancer may not discriminate with whom it targets but not all breast cancer is the same inwho gets it. The medical community recognizes that breast cancer, as all cancers, behave differently in people of different ethnicities….
Rumbo News Commissioner Heidi L. Reed from the Massachusetts Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (MCDHH) visited Northern Essex Community College recently to honor two Lawrence students who have been participating in the Commission’s Summer Transition to…
By Sara Inés Calderón Más Wired A recent analysis of 20,000 venture-backed companies in the U.S. from 1997 to 2011 found that, when women are in senior positions, companies tend to do better. An article in Business Week noted:…
By Mary Olivella MomsRising Lily Eskelsen is a mother, grandmother and teacher with 20 years of classroom experience. While she’s not an immigrant, she has passionate views on immigration because many of her students have dealt with the struggles…
LatinaLista — A new tracking poll released today by impreMedia/Latino Decisions highlighted a reality that has so far been ignored by both presidential campaigns — Latinas overwhelmingly favor Obama over Romney. According to the poll: Latina voters plan to vote…
LatinaLista — The pink ribbon has become an iconic symbol worldwide for breast cancer awareness — it even has its own Wikipedia entry. Thanks to a great marketing effort, that has been both viral and organized, there’s no one…
By Rita Sanchez La Prensa San Diego Editor’s Note: In this article Rita Sanchez proudly recognizes the women who have contributed to the Parque and its murals. She features women who have designed, supervised and painted murals since 1973,…
By Imogen Reed Latina Voices Ask any Latino man and he will tell you just how strong Latina women are. He will probably be remembering how his mom managed to work two jobs, look after the kids and keep…
LatinaLista — The headline says what most Latino families have known all their lives — Hispanic Women Are Smartest Shoppers: Study. According to the study conducted by WSL/Strategic Retail, an authority on shopper behavior and retail trends, Latinas are so…
By Jacob Balsam and Ashley Vasquez LatinaLista The video game industry is ever expanding and according to an article by The New York Times’ Nick Bolton, will reach $112 billion in consumer spending money by the year 2015. Blizzard’s…
By Dr. Maria G. Hernandez Latina Cubicle Confidential™ In the next two years, the US Latino population will top 50 million and our purchasing power will exceed $1 Trillion. Just to put that in perspective, there are more Spanish-speaking…
LatinaLista– Dr. Carlos Cuevas is an assistant professor at Northeastern University in Boston. He’s dedicated his professional life to studying the psychological impact of victimization and trauma, sexual abuse and sex offending and family violence. Being Latino, he…
LatinaLista — The special relationship that most Latinas have with their mothers is one that isn’t duplicated among other ethnicities. For that reason, a group of Junior League women in 1992 in Austin, Texas knew that when it came…
By Ada Alvarez LatinaLista CHICAGO — “We need to talk about women’s health,” declared Dr. Janine Clayton, deputy director from the Office of Research on Women’s Health, as part of the three-speaker panel discussing “Women’s health research agenda: The…
LatinaLista — On a busy Dallas street corner, in the heart of a neighborhood where Spanish is heard as often as English, a converted 7-11 serves as the home of the latest test site for a new national pilot…
LatinaLista — A new report released today by the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research titled Rising to the Challenge: Hispanic College Graduation Rates as a National Priority documented the fact that Latino students who don’t graduate from college…
LatinaLista — Once upon a time, AIDS/HIV was considered as dangerous, contagious and prevalent as the H1N1 virus. There used to be massive public service campaign commercials instructing people on how to avoid getting infected with HIV. A month…
LatinaLista Remember when the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) released their controversial recommendations last November for how often women should be screened for breast cancer? They recommended against routine mammography screening for women aged 40 to 49 years…
LatinaLista — In the mood to read a book authored by a Latina or Latino but just can’t seem to find the right one…well — There’s an app for that!! Grand Central Publishing (GCP), formerly Warner Books and a…
LatinaLista — Cleaning house is hard work. Cleaning a hotel room is even harder work. A study that will appear in the January issue of The American Journal of Industrial Medicine found that while studying workers at 50 hotels…
LatinaLista — By next year, the US Census Bureau projects that there will be an increase of Latinas of child-bearing age (15-44 years) reaching 11 million versus a decrease from 38.8 million in 2006 to 37.4 million in 2010…
LatinaLista — An interesting stat is making the rounds that illustrates that Latinos are seizing the online domain in record numbers. According to comScore Media Metrix, the total number of Latinos online grew by 10 percent in August 2009….
