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NWLC In The Press

Racist and Sexist Dress Codes Make School Hell for Black Girls

It turns out that school dress code policies—which prohibit harmless black cultural signifiers and draw attention and shame to individual body parts—make school disproportionately difficult for black girls. Imagine that! Researchers at the National Women’s...

In Most Important Business Case of the Term, the Supreme Court Just Delivered Employers a Huge Win

"Employees may now be forced behind closed doors into an individual, costly--and often secret--arbitration process," Fatima Goss Graves, president and chief executive of the National Women's Law Center, told the Post. "This will stack the deck...

Op-Ed: Diversity and SNAP Decisions: How Women’s Voices Would Have Built a Better Farm Bill

Op-ed by Anna Chu, Vice President for Strategy and Policy at the National Women’s Law Center.

61% of women say they would rather discuss their own death than money

Talking about it is critical at work. Over a 40-year career, women stand to lose $403,440 because of the pay gap between women and men, and that figure rises to $867,920 for black women and...

Tribeca Festival Highlights: 10 Can’t-Miss Events

The movement's first public NYC event will include conversations with Ashley Judd, Julianne Moore and Amber Tamblyn, as well as Fatima Goss Graves (National Women's Law Center) and Monica Ramirez (Alianza Nacional de Campesinas).

The Restaurant Industry Ran A Private Poll On The Minimum Wage. It Did Not Go Well For Them.

Women workers are disproportionally affected by the low minimum wage, according to the National Women’s Law Center, which says that nearly “two-thirds of minimum wage workers in the United States are women and the minimum...