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NWLC In The Press

School Dress Codes Are Disproportionately Enforced Against Black Girls, Samantha O’Sullivan Writes

That it is our responsibility to ensure our exposed shoulders sweating in 80-degree Washington DC swamp heat are not “distracting” to our male classmates, as not to impede their learning. In schools across DC and...

Black girls are disciplined more harshly in school. Dress codes play a big role.

A new report from the National Women’s Law Center that looks at schools in Washington DC found dress codes to be unnecessarily strict and harmful to female students, and found that black girls in particular...

Are black girls unfairly targeted for dress-code violations at school? You bet they are.

We know from a report last year by the National Women’s Law Center that black girls are twice a likely as all other students to get suspended in schools across the country. And a good...

Op-Ed: The Trump Administration’s Birth Control Rules May Harm Sexual Assault Survivors

In this op-ed, Gretchen Borchelt, vice president for reproductive rights and health at the National Women’s Law Center, explains why access to birth control is critical to sexual assault survivors

Georgia State student accuses university of discrimination

The ACLU and the National Women’s Law Center, based in Washington, D.C., wrote a letter to university administrators earlier this month advocating for Shepherd. Her attorneys gave The Atlanta Journal-Constitution a letter Georgia State sent...

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy signs sweeping equal pay legislation

According to the National Women's Law Center, a 20-year old woman beginning a full-time year-round position may lose $418,800 over a 40-year career in comparison to her male colleague. When that male colleague retires at...