November 2, 2019
What Abortion Actually Is About
I’m going to be frank: I’m sick and tired of having to justify why we need to be able to get an abortion. I’m tired of the constant reasons we need to give and soul-baring we need to…
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July 14, 2021
Why Catherine Lhamon Is the Perfect Person to Ensure ALL Students’ Civil Rights Are Protected
Even if you don’t have kids of your own or don’t care about kids at all, at some point you’ve been a student. So, you should know about the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and the important work it does to protect all students from discrimination. OCR is also…
July 8, 2021
Ending Summer Food Insecurity
More than a year into the pandemic, women of color continue to experience higher rates of food insecurity compared to white, non-Hispanic men or women. In May 2021, more than one in six Black, non-Hispanic women (17.1%) and Latinas (16.7%) reported not having enough…
July 7, 2021
5 Things You Need to Know About the Child Tax Credit This Year
The Child Tax Credit (CTC) helps millions of families with children every year make ends meet, cover large expenses, or put away savings. This year, expansions to the CTC are beneficial to even more families—so it’s important that all eligible families claim the credit. Here’s how the expanded…
June 29, 2021
What Bans on Critical Race Theory Mean for Identity in the Classroom
Conservative lawmakers in at least 12 states are urging to ban critical race theory (CRT) being taught in schools or cutting funding for schools that continue implement it. They claim teachers educating students about race, gender, and identity will breed division among youth. These bans pose a problem for school administrators and…
December 5, 2019
Here’s Why We Won’t Clap for Every Woman in Leadership: On the Confirmation of Extremist Sarah Pitlyk
Madeline Albright famously said, “there’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other.” While supporting women leadership is important, it’s equally important to call-out behavior that is harmful to women, even if…
June 28, 2021
This Could Be The Worst Year for Abortion Rights Since 2011—And Texas Lawmakers Are Leading The Charge. Here’s What You Can Do.
The Rosie’s Law Campaign is an effort led by Texas abortion funds, Frontera Fund, Lilith Fund, and Texas Equal Access Fund, to restore Medicaid and private insurance coverage of abortion for Texans. 2021 is shaping up…
June 25, 2021
Pride in Biden-Harris Administration’s Actions to Promote and Support LGBTQ Civil Rights Protections
Sarah here. I grew up in rural Virginia. I didn’t know what being gay meant until my junior year of high school. I then heard rumors that the gay people lived in the mountains, shunned from society. I didn’t want…
June 24, 2021
Low Wages—Not Unemployment Benefits—Are Holding Back Our Recovery
It’s officially the first week of summer—the Hot Vax Summer, some are calling it. With vaccinations on the rise and coronavirus infection rates on the decline, the days ahead are looking brighter in much of the U.S. People are making travel plans, eating out, planning…
June 16, 2021
We Need Wage Gap Data for LGBTQ Workers. Here’s Why.
On other equal pay days we promote data, but when it comes to pay data between LGBTQ and non-LGBTQ workers, we don’t have reliable, comprehensive numbers to highlight. Instead, we are using June 16 as a day of…
June 9, 2021
Four Areas in the Biden Budget Plan That Support an Equitable Recovery
While the nation is starting to turn the corner from COVID-19, many women of color—and women generally—continue to struggle. Though the overall unemployment rate is declining, women of color continue to be unemployed at higher rates and nearly two million women…
June 4, 2021
What Bennifer Means for Economic Recovery
If you’re like me, you have not been able to emotionally recover from the recent pictures of Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck, better known as “Bennifer,” together again. I had so many feelings about the Bennifer rekindling: a flood of nostalgia and worry, the comforting sense that nature is healing and the world is coming…
May 27, 2021
Title IX Prohibits Michigan State University from Eliminating Its Women’s Varsity Swim and Diving Team
On May 26, 2021, NWLC, along with co-counsel Legal Aid At Work and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, led a group of 25 other civil rights organizations in a Sixth Circuit amicus brief about sports and equity and math, oh my! In Balow v. Michigan State University, we filed in support of Sophia Balow and her varsity swim and diving teammates, who want to stop MSU from cutting…
May 25, 2021
#Stopping Asian Hate? Why Not White Supremacy?
If we’re going to #StopAsianHate, we need to start by addressing our ongoing and dangerous entanglements with white supremacy. Just last month, a white man driven by fear and hatred murdered eight people, mostly Asian women.…