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Campuses reopen under Trump administration sexual assault rules critics say protect the accused more than survivors

The National Women’s Law Center, which fights for gender justice, is involved in ongoing legal action to challenge the Trump administration’s rules. The back-and-forth on Title IX doesn’t exist in a vacuum, Shiwali Patel, a...

Suspending monthly economic reports would be really bad for women of color

The National Women’s Law Center, which also publishes its monthly analysis of women in the workforce using BLS’ data, said in a statement that “losing this impartial data will undermine efforts to improve women’s economic...

Trump’s Pronatalist Agenda Weaponizes Motherhood to Push Women Out of Public Life

The Trump administration is using one of the oldest tools of patriarchy—promising rewards for compliance—through a wave of proposed pronatalist policies designed to push women into motherhood and encourage them to give birth to more children. Among...

In Trump’s Federal Work Force Cuts, Black Women Are Among the Hardest Hit

But a report published by the National Women’s Law Center, which compiled and analyzed the now-deleted O.P.M. data, showed that government agencies that were targeted for the deepest cuts had employed the highest percentages of women...

Immigrants, women, and Black people are exiting the workforce

Immigrant workers aren’t the only ones leaving the workforce. Black employment has dropped as well. According to a Bureau of Labor Statistics report from August 1, 7.2% of Black Americans are unemployed compared with 4.2% of the...

Santa Rosa JC players file Title IX complaint over transgender teammate

Title IX was passed by Congress in 1972, and outlawed discrimination on the basis of sex at educational institutions receiving federal funding. While the eligibility of transgender athletes to participate in athletic competition is not...