Are you getting the care you need? More and more often, the moral and religious beliefs of certain health care providers are limiting the public's access to health care. Many consumers are unaware that these providers refuse to perform certain services or give information that patients want, even when the law requires that they do so. Consumers do not find out about limits on services until they are denied care. By then it is often too late to do anything about it. This brochure arms consumers with the information they need before they make health care decisions. To view or download a copy of the brochure, please visit http://www.nwlc.org/pdf/ASKBrochureAugust2004.pdf.

In ways both well-publicized and carefully hidden, glaring and subtle, the Bush Administration is rolling back women's progress in every aspect of their lives. Slip-Sliding Away shows that many of the Administration's actions with harsh effects on women are occurring almost completely without public scrutiny, and that some of its more well-publicized actions have a particularly harmful effect on women that is not widely known. The report includes recommended actions that should be taken to expand and protect women's rights and opportunities. To view or download a copy of the report, please visit http://www.nwlc.org/pdf/AdminRecordOnWomen2004.pdf

Making the Grade on Women's Health: A National and State-by-State Report Card 2004 is the third in a series assessing the overall health of women at the national and state levels. The Report Card is designed to promote the health and well-being of women in the United States by providing a comprehensive assessment of women's health. It evaluates 34 health status indicators and 67 health policy indicators, and assesses progress, or lack thereof, in reaching key benchmarks related to the status of women's health. The Report Card also provides an important overview of key disparities in the health of women based on race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability status, and other facts. To view or download the report, visit the Health section.

Keeping Score, a joint project of the National Women's Law Center and the Harvard School of Public Health, explores the persistent discrimination that girls in Massachusetts high schools face in sports participation opportunities and treatment of their teams. The report finds that girls in Massachusetts consistently lag behind boys in their participation in physical activity, depriving them of the health, social and emotional benefits of playing sports, and that girls of color fare even worse. Keeping Score calls for strengthened enforcement of federal and state gender discrimination laws; assistance to schools to enable them to achieve gender equity public education about the importance of sports participation; and partnerships between public health professionals and gender equity advocates to address barriers and promote girls' participation in physical activity. The full report is available at:

http://www.nwlc.org/pdf/KeepingScoreGirlsHSAthleticsInMA2004.pdf

Credit Where Credit is Due is designed to help advocates, employers, child care providers, and others inform families about four tax provisions in the federal income tax code: the Dependent Care Tax Credit, the Child Tax Credit, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and the Dependent Care Assistance Program. The information provided in the booklet can help families determine their eligibility to receive the tax benefits these provisions offer for tax year 2004, provide an idea of the amount of tax benefits they can expect to receive and how to claim them, and answer some other questions about these tax provisions. To view or download a copy of this report, please visit the tax section of this website: http://www.nwlc.org/pdf/CreditWhereCreditIsDueTY04.pdf

Credito A Quien Se Lo Merece: Redusca sus Impuestos o Aumente su Reembolso para Ayudar a su Familia (Enero, 2005)

Este libreto contiene información detallada acerca de los créditos federales Dependent Care Tax Credit, Earned Income Tax Credit, Child Tax Credit y el Dependent Care Assistance Program, incluyendo como determinar la cantidad que cada familia podría recibir de cada uno de estos beneficios fiscales.  Para leer esto folleto, por favor haga click en este enlace: http://www.nwlc.org/pdf/CreditWhereCreditIsDueSpanishTY04.pdf

Truth or Consequences: Using Consumer Protection Laws to Expose Institutional Restrictions on Reproductive and Other Health Care is a useful resource guide, designed to provide health care advocates and others seeking to preserve access to reproductive health services with an understanding of how to use the nation's consumer protection laws to challenge institutional restrictions. To view or download a copy of this report, please visit the Health section of this website: http://www.nwlc.org/pdf/TruthOrConsequences2003.pdf

http://www.nwlc.org/pdf/Women&SmokingReportCard2003.pdf

The Little Engine That Hasn't examines tax credits for employers that provide some form of child care assistance to their employees. Over half the states and the federal government have enacted some form of employer tax credit for child care.& Using available data about the utilization of the credits and interviews with child care advocates, tax experts and employers across the country, this report finds that few employers have claimed these credits, assesses why these credits have had such a limited impact and discusses the policy implications. It is an invaluable resource for policy makers and advocates alike. To view or download a copy of this report, visit the Child Care section of this site: http://www.nwlc.org/pdf/TheLittleEngine2002.pdf

The first copy of this publication is free. Each additional copy costs $15.00.

Dollars and Sense  is the second report from the Common Ground Project, a unique collaboration between the National Women's Law Center and the Center on Fathers, Families and Public Policy. This report sets forth a series of policy recommendations designed to improve the way child support awards for low-income families are set and adjusted, and the way arrearages are handled, to increase the ability of low-income parents to support their children and themselves. To view or download a copy of this report, visit the Child & Family Support section of this site: http://www.nwlc.org/pdf/CommonGroundDollarsandSense.pdf

Geared toward state policymakers and advocates, this report analyzes and provides recommendations on ways to improve state tax assistance families who must pay for costly child and adult dependent care in order to be gainfully employed. Be sure to also check out the report's insert, Making the Grade for Care, a state-by-state report card ranking state child and dependent care tax provisions for tax year 2005. To view or download this report and report card, please visit the Child Care or Tax sections of this site.

The first copy of this publication is free. Each additional copy costs $15.00.

Take Action is a step-by-step guide to getting coverage of prescription contraceptives included in your company's health plan. This booklet includes facts about prescription contraceptives and health plans, an outline of the law, talking points and a sample letter for workers who want to approach their employers about coverage of prescription contraceptives. To view or download a copy of this guide, visit our Pill4Us website.

This is a useful resource guide, designed to provide health care advocates and other seeking to preserve access to reproductive health services with an understanding of how to use the nation's charitable assets laws to challenge proposed hospital mergers and other transactions that threaten to reduce or eliminate these services. To view or download a copy of this guide, visit the Health section of this site.

During the last three decades, the Court has played a crucial role in prohibiting discrimination against women and in protecting women's health, safety, and welfare. But the legal rights that women have come to take for granted are not nearly as secure as they may think. To view or download a copy of this report, visit the Judges, Courts & Women's Rights section of this site.

Family Ties is the first in a series of reports from the Common Ground Project, a unique collaboration between the National Women's Law Center and the Center on Fathers, Families and Public Policy. The report sets forth a series of policy recommendations on paternity establishment that are more responsive to the diverse and complex circumstances of low-income mothers, fathers and children. To view or download a copy of this report, visit the Child & Family Support section of this site.

Women and girls continue to make tremendous contributions to sports, and they in turn reap great academic, economic, social and health benefits. Yet more than twenty-five years after Title IX was enacted, too many schools still are not providing their female students with equal athletic opportunities. Check It Out is an important tool for women and girls at all levels of education, as well as others interested in making sure that athletic opportunities are distributed fairly. It explains Title IX's requirements as applied to athletics and allows readers to examine their own schools' athletics programs to see whether males and females are treated equally. To view or download a copy of this publication, visit the Athletics section of this site.

The first copy of this publication is free. Each additional copy costs $2.00.

For girls in middle or high school, or women in post-secondary or job training programs, this publication explains the laws that apply to career education and offers advice about how to deal with sex discrimination in such programs. To view or download a copy of this publication, visit the Education section of this site.

The first copy of this publication is free. Each additional copy costs $2.00.

A first-of-its-kind resource guide, this publication is designed to provide health care advocates and others seeking to preserve access to reproductive health services with an understanding of how to use the nation's antitrust laws to challenge proposed hospital mergers that threaten to reduce or eliminate these services. To view or download a copy of this resource guide, visit the Health section of this site.

This detailed guide includes comprehensive analyses of Title IX's legislative history and regulatory framework as it relates to athletics, as well as settlement agreements and other legal issues. To order a copy of this publication, please send an email to info@nwlc.org.

Designed for teachers, parents, and other non-lawyer types, this manual focuses on sexual harassment of students and the legal obligations placed on schools to address it.

This is a convenient Spanish-language brochure that provides women with an overview of their child support rights and information on how to exercise those rights through state child support offices. To view or download a copy of this brochure, visit the Child & Family Support section of this site.

This is a convenient brochure that provides women with an overview of their child support rights and information on how to exercise those rights through state child support offices. To view or download a copy of this brochure, click here.

Getting Organized: Unionizing Home-Based Child Care Providers describes a recent and growing trend to unionize home-based child care providers - both regulated family child care providers and "family, friend, and neighbor" providers who are exempt from regulation but receive public funds. Unionization is proving to be a promising strategy for securing increased public investment in child care. Getting Organized analyzes the campaigns for unionization and provides detailed information about a states where home-based providers have achieved formal recognition, states where local organizing activity is ongoing and states where unionization legislation has failed. It also describes in detail the benefits to providers and families that have been triggered by the unionization efforts.

To view or download this report, please visit the Child Care section.

The first copy of this publication is free. Each additional copy costs $10.00.

Close to Home:  State Strategies to Strengthen and Support Family, Friend, and Neighbor Care offers an array of policy options that states are using that target child care provided by family, friends, and neighbors.  Given the significant number of low-income families who choose this type of care, these options offer an opportunity to strengthen the early learning experiences for our poorest children. To view this report, please visit the Child Care section of this site.

The first copy of this publication is free. Each additional copy is $10.00.

As states cut funding for child care and early education programs, many advocates for children have taken their case directly to voters. This report from the National Women's Law Center finds that voters are often willing to fund services that their elected officials have not always made a priority. Analyzing most of the measures that appeared on the ballot through 2003 in which increased investment in early care and education or after-school programs was the central or a significant component, the report concludes that ballot measures can be a useful tool for securing and stabilizing increased funding for early education, child care and after-school programs.

To view the Executive Summary of this report, visit the Child Care section of this site.

The first copy of the executive summary, available while supplies last, is free. Each additional copy is $5.

As states cut funding for child care and early education programs, many advocates for children have taken their case directly to voters. This report from the National Women's Law Center finds that voters are often willing to fund services that their elected officials have not always made a priority. Analyzing most of the measures that appeared on the ballot through 2003 in which increased investment in early care and education or after-school programs was the central or a significant component, the report concludes that ballot measures can be a useful tool for securing and stabilizing increased funding for early education, child care and after-school programs.

To view or download a full copy of this report, visit the Child Care section of this site.

The full copy of the report includes the executive summary and is available while supplies last.

This groundbreaking report compiles data from twelve states nationwide that show that high school girls continue to be dramatically under-represented in career and technical education courses that are nontraditional for their gender. The report also includes a thorough analysis of, and template for, the ways in which federal and state laws can be used to open doors for girls to nontraditional training. To view or download a copy of the report, please visit www.nwlc.org/pdf/NWLCToolsoftheTrade05.pdf.

These toolkits provide a customized roadmap for girls, their parents and advocates, educational professionals and state personnel to apply their laws to improve opportunities for girls to participate in nontraditional training. Toolkits are available for Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina and Washington. The general toolkit offers a template for those in states not listed here to research, use and improve their states’ laws. To view or download a copy of the toolkits, please visit http://www.nwlc.org/details.cfm?id=2462&section=education. If you choose to order a state toolkit, please specify which Toolkit you want in the comments field of the order form.

In Their Own Voices, based on interviews with parents and child care providers, describes the real-world impact of state child care cutbacks on the lives of parents, children, and providers. To view or download a copy of this report, please visit www.nwlc.org/pdf/ChildCareVOICESReport_September2005.pdf.

Child Care Assistance Policies 2006 provides data on child care assistance policies for 2006 and examines changes in policies since 2001, revealing the shortfalls in state child care policies for working families. To view or download a copy of this report, please visit www.nwlc.org/pdf/StateChildCareAssistancePoliciesReport2006web.pdf