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Low-Paid Jobs & Minimum Wage

Women are much more likely as men to work in low-wage occupations that typically pay $11 per hour or less — jobs such as child care workers, restaurant servers, maids and cashiers.

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Reckoning With the Hidden Rules of Gender in the Tax Code Fact Sheet

Letter to Committee on Education and Labor on the Future of Work

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Women Make Up the Majority of Front Line Workers of the COVID-19 Crisis

Court Approves $14 Million Settlement Agreement with Pregnant Workers from 2013-2014

Expanding Paid Sick Days and Paid Family & Medical Leave in Response to COVID-19

Child Care is Key to Our Economic Recovery: What it will take to stabilize the system during this crisis

TIME’S UP Legal Defense Fund Financially Supports $500 Million Sexual Harassment Class Action Lawsuit Against McDonald’s Restaurants in Florida

Worker Demands During COVID-19 Deserve Our Solidarity

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Even Before the Pandemic, Women in Front-Line Jobs Were in Crisis

Women Demand More of Congress To Face COVID-19 Recession

Providing Americans Insured Days of Leave (PAID Leave) Act

COVID-19 “Recovery Rebates” in the CARES Act

Child Care Industry Left Short By Phase III Stimulus

Working Families Need More Than Mitch McConnell Is Offering

NWLC Reacts to Senate Passage of Second Coronavirus Stimulus

What Women and Working Families Need to Face Coronavirus

COVID-19 Unemployment Insurance Letter to Congress

Congress Must Act to Support Working Families During COVID-19 Crisis

NWLC Applauds Introduction of the Part-Time Worker Bill of Rights Act

Women’s Political Representation and Legislative Achievements: How Women Are Changing State Legislatures

NWLC Comment on U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Fee Schedule

Reckoning With the Hidden Rules of Gender in the Tax Code: How Low Taxes on Corporations and the Wealthy Impact Women’s Economic Opportunity and Security

Principles for Child Care: A Vision for Investing in High-Quality, Affordable Child Care

Women Driving Change: A Pathway to a Better Mississippi