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Trump Officials Say San José State Broke Civil Rights Law by Letting Trans Athlete Play

Shiwali Patel, a senior director of education justice at the National Women’s Law Center and a Title IX attorney, called the Trump administration’s interpretation of Title IX “fundamentally flawed.” “Title IX protects every student from...

Doctors, veterans fear near-total abortion ban at VA will put women’s health at risk

Jackii Wang, senior legislative analyst for the National Women’s Law Center, which advocates for abortion rights, said: “When we think of the number of women veterans who have suffered military sexual trauma, it’s unconscionable that...

Black women’s unemployment has skyrocketed. Here’s what happened.

On any normal month in any normal year Black women’s unemployment rate is twice the rate of White women, which economists credit in large part to pervasive discrimination. But here is what was new to...

Beyond Glass Ceilings And Glass Cliffs, Black Women Professors In Higher Education Offer Leadership Lessons

According to a Center for American Progress analysis in 2019, Black women working full-time year-round, earned substantially less than white men, resulting in more than $946,000 in lost earnings over a 40-year career. Similarly, the National Women’s Law...

Trump’s War on Child Care

In its announcement of the proposed change, HHS said that the up-front payment requirement makes it easier for child care centers to defraud the government by receiving money before services are rendered. But that goes...

Funders Must Support Advocates Fighting Back Against Pronatalism

“It is vital that we expose the pronatalist agenda for what it really is: a racist, sexist set of policies that is narrowly focused on boosting birth rates for ‘acceptable’ people, which often means White,...