In July, House Democrats released the When Women Succeed, America Succeeds: An Economic Agenda for Women and Families. The overall goal of this economic agenda is to address the realities, disparities and opportunities for working women and families through effective policy and legislation. 

Here's a roundup of blog posts this week from the working moms series on Blogher and Hello Giggles, brought to you by the AFL-CIO, that highlight the need for paid sick days, pay equity and child care for working women and families:

• The Importance of Having a Paid Sick Day: Why having paid sick days is important to working mothers.
• Be Good to Your Server: She Could Have Been Me: The truth about what it takes to work as a server. 
• My Kingdom for a Waitress Job Description: The highly unregulated industry that disproportionately affects female workers.
• Child Care Costs and Limited Leave: Why I Left Teaching to Care for My Own Kids: A working mother's story who picked her family over her career because of skyrocketing child care costs.