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“I’ve spent the past five years doing research on the issues of motherhood, scouring the nation for people and organizations that share my concerns. I’ve spent the last six months since my book came out talking about mothers’ struggles, and I have never before or since that interview found an organization anywhere else in the United States that is addressing these issues with this kind of impact. “I can’t imagine a better strategy for improving mothers’ lives than MotherWoman’s: offering immediate relief while at the same time working on law and policies. After all, this structural level is not only where we’ll find the causes of our troubles. It’s where we’ll find their solutions, too.”
Sharon Lerner is a journalist who has covered a wide range of issues of concern to women for more than a decade. She has worked as a reporter for The Village Voice, where she wrote two regular columns and covered women's issues and health. Her written work has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The American Prospect, The Nation, Salon.com, DoubleX (Slate.com), and Ms. among other publications. She is the recipient of the 2005 Front Page Award for News Coverage, the 2005 Jane Cunningham Croly/GFWC Print Journalism Award for excellence in covering issues of concern to women; a special award from the Women and Politics Institute for coverage of women's issues post-9/11; the Ray Brunner Science Writing Award from the American Public Health Association; and a National Headliner Award for her radio feature reporting. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two young sons.
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