WOW- Women on Writing

WOW - Women on Writing is an online zine for the encouragement of women writing. Actually, anyone writing, but the focus is women. They have a quarterly writing contest and helpful articles for the working writer. Well, they just published an article I wrote for them. You can check it out here.

A lot of other stuff has come out since I wrote this article. For example, what I didn’t know when I wrote this article is that in many states, women pay more for insurance than men because women are typically more responsible and actually make appointments and participate in preventive health care. But because of that, we’re seen as being more expensive, and that’s even when we don’t use the maternity care. So, we end up paying 39% more in health insurance in many states, including California. New York, however, does not allow for discrimination due to gender.

Write your congressperson.