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In January 2021, NWLC, alongside our law firm partner Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, and 37 other organizations, filed an amicus brief in the 10th Circuit, making clear that religious employers cannot unilaterally strip workers of…

We are now in 2021, in the 11th month of a devastating pandemic and economic crisis that has disproportionately harmed women of color (and women overall), but women and families still have not received the help they need. Women of color especially continue to…

Three years ago, the hashtag #MeToo went viral and fueled a cultural reckoning leading millions of people to disclose sexual harassment and assault, many for the very first time. The TIME’S UP Legal Defense Fund emerged…

The National Women’s Law Center, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, Hogan Lovells, and 60 additional organizations committed to racial and gender justice and LGBTQ rights, filed an amicus brief in Hecox v. Little, a case…

In a year that will forever be measured by the simple fact that we survived, the Law Center surged, pivoted, innovated, and zoomed our way to change for women and girls. Whether leading the fight for COVID relief, launching groundbreaking…

It feels like years since I saw memes and tweets about entering the new year and decade with “20/20 vision,” but no one saw this year coming. There is no silver lining we can paint to alleviate the…

Police were first stationed in U.S. schools was around 1948, to intimidate Black students who integrated what were once all-white schools. Unfortunately, school-based police still play a similar role today. The increase of police officers placed in schools these last 70 years has led to higher rates of arrests for normal, childlike behavior, not for criminal activity. In 2019, the FBI released data showing nearly 30,000 children under the age…

The Ending Punitive, Unfair, School-based Harm that is Overt and Unresponsive to Trauma (PUSHOUT) Act, H.R. 5325, was introduced in the House of Representatives on December 1, 2019 by Representatives Ayanna Pressley, Bonnie Watson Coleman, and Ilhan Omar to address discriminatory…

By November 7, 2020, it became clear that we owed the 2020 election to Black women across the country, like Stacey Abrams, Latosha Brown, and the 91% of Black women who voted for Joe Biden—many of whom began working well before November 3 to organize their communities, protect…

Let’s play a quick game. What do you think about first when you hear/read the words “The Affordable Care Act” (ACA)? If you’re like me you picture former President Barack Obama, and the wrangling he encountered…

As a mom, food is my love language. I remember giving my three-year old son apple slices (many, many years ago) and feeling like I was literally giving his little cells fuel to grow a strong and healthy body. When I make my kids lopsided birthday cakes, I am celebrating the sweetness of life through a shared treat. During the pandemic, I can’t help that my…

The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated gender inequities in various arenas:  Women, particularly Black and Latina women, are leaving the workforce at devasting and unprecedented rates.   At a time where women hold two–thirds of student debt, the President and Senate Republicans have walked away from stimulus…