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NWLC In The Press

Women are rarely accused of sexual harassment, and there’s a reason why

Emily Martin, general counsel and vice president for workplace justice at the National Women's Law Center in Washington, who handles workplace sexual harassment issues, agrees that women harassers are a "minority of cases" because women...

How House members quietly sidestep harassment claims

"It's extremely troubling that there's all these different ways of avoiding even minimal oversight,” said Emily Martin, general counsel at the National Women’s Law Center. The Office of House Employment Counsel “seems to be a...

Judge temporarily blocks new Trump rules on birth control

Fatima Goss Graves, president of the National Women’s Law Center, praised the decision and said the group will continue to fight against the rules. “Employers’ religious beliefs should never determine the care a woman receives,”...

With Moore’s defeat, #MeToo movement forces a reckoning

As the #MeToo movement takes hold and matures, it is moving beyond the stage of rooting out individual bad actors to “seeking a different level of accountability,” said Fatima Goss Graves, president of the National...

Could fear of “Metoo” backlash silence women’s voices?

“We need to be concerned about it,” said Fatima Goss Graves, head of the National Women’s Law Center, which promotes equal rights for women. “The last thing you would want is a solution that involves...

Tawdry Tales Depict a Texas Congressman’s Frat House on the Hill

“If you are trying to create a workplace where sexual harassment and other sorts of unlawful harassment don’t happen, you really need to be thinking about workplace culture more broadly and about civility and respect,”...