In 2009, Obama signed into law the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which according to the National Women’s Law Center, “restores longstanding law and helps to ensure that individuals subjected to unlawful pay discrimination are able...
I want our government to stop attacking essential programs, like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) — an anti-hunger program that, according to the National Women's Law Center, kept 8.4 million people, including nearly 4...
Nasirah and her twin sister, Fatimah, a senior at School Without Walls, were among 21 D.C. black girls recruited by youth advocacy group Girls Inc. to participate in a study by the National Women’s Law...
The National Women's Law Center, a nonprofit organization that advocates for women’s rights, determined that based on the current national pay gap, women will lose $418,800 over the course of a 40-year career compared to...
“I start from the Ruth Bader Ginsburg quote that there always should be a woman in the place where decisions are being made,” says Amy Matsui, senior counsel and director of government relations for the...
According to Sarah David Heydemann, a workplace justice legal fellow at the National Women’s Law Center, the #MeToo movement has sparked an increase in the number of survivors of sexual assault and harassment sharing their...
