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Trump Wants Americans To Make More Babies. Critics Say His Policies Won’t Help Raise Them.

“You’re not seeing policies that support families with children,” said Amy Matsui, vice president of income security and child care at the National Women’s Law Center, a nonprofit focused on gender rights. “It’s a white, heterosexual,...

How do ‘Trump accounts’ work – and who will benefit?

“As currently structured, these accounts will just become another tax shelter for the wealthiest, while the overwhelming majority of American families, who are struggling to cover basic costs like food, childcare and housing, will be...

Why Trump Calling Women Journalists ‘Piggy’ Is Counter To Democracy

“The demeaning and humiliating of female reporters is not an accident,” says Fatima Goss Graves, president and CEO of the National Women’s Law Center. “It’s not an accident that it is happening to women, and...

Abortion pill makers brace for restrictions a year after Trump’s election

“When it comes to medication abortion, there haven’t been any major policy changes yet in this administration,” said Katie O’Connor, senior director of federal abortion policy for the National Women’s Law Center. “But, we’ve also seen some...

How Right-Wing Superstar Riley Gaines Built an Anti-Trans Empire

Shiwali Patel, senior director of safe and inclusive schools at the ­National Women’s Law Center, says the cases “could have a huge impact beyond sports,” affecting trans people’s rights under Title IX and potentially their...

More Briefs Are Filed In Support Of Landmark SCOTUS Cases That Challenge State Bans On Trans Girls And Women Student Athletes

National Women’s Law Center filed a friend-of-the-court brief in cases challenging Idaho and W. Virginia laws that “perpetuate stereotypes and discrimination against girls and women as athletically inferior. Shiwali Patel, senior director of education justice...