On the side opposing the bans is Shiwali Patel, the director of safety in schools for the National Women’s Law Center, who tells Women Rule that removing books from school libraries can stifle stories by sexual...
An Education Department spokeswoman decried the court’s action, as did Shiwali Patel, senior director of Safe and Inclusive Schools at the National Women’s Law Center. “We are disappointed in the Supreme Court’s decision that creates...
“If you look at studies that control for age, education, race, occupation,” says Valle-Gutierrez, “looking within the same occupation and controlling for all those factors, there’s still a wage gap.” Women are getting paid less...
In This Episode In what has become a depressing tradition, it’s time for our annual look at the hell that SCOTUS unleashed with Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. To look at the landscape for...
“The pandemic laid bare and exacerbated the fragility of the market,” says Melissa Boteach, vice president of income security and childcare at the National Women’s Law Center. The burdens created by COVID-19 created thousands of...
Scores of strategies are available to lawmakers that would protect survivors of sexual abuse from defamation lawsuits aimed at silencing them. These suits have the potential to be ruled as SLAPP suits, or strategic lawsuits...
