Kathleen Sebelius

I’m writing this near the end of a long day on the road. I’ve been through three states in the last six days, meeting with candidates, supporters, voters – and today really feels like the “best of times and the worst of times” for the women who make up our EMILY’s List community. 

To mark this year’s celebration of Women's Equality Day (today!), members of President Obama’s administration are hosting a special conference call to provide updates on the work they’ve done for women and girls. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, a former EMILY’s List candidate, will join Tina Tchen, director of the White House Office of Public Engagement, to discuss their efforts and to answer questions about health care reform’s effects on women. And we want you to be in the know.

They might be few, but they sure are mighty.

The handful of women who attended yesterday's health care summit may have made for a small contingency of the attendees, but they didn't hold back when it came to voicing women's issues during the meeting.

Great interview with Secretary of Health and Human Services (and former EMILY's List candidate) Kathleen Sebelius on the Daily Show last night. Sebelius did an excellent job outlining plans for health care reform.

If you didn’t notice from the pink uniform accents on display during the NFL football games a few weeks back - October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Breast cancer is the second most diagnosed cancer among women after skin cancer, and kills more women each year than any other cancer except lung cancer. All cancer types combined are responsible for almost a quarter of deaths among women, eclipsed only by heart disease. It’s a pretty big deal, and we would all be well served to know what puts us at risk and what we can do about it.