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NWLC In The Press

The Unbearable Ambiguity of Job-Hunting While Pregnant

While laws in all four countries prohibit discrimination against pregnant women in the hiring process, experts say the problem persists regardless. Emily Martin, Vice President for Workplace Justice at the National Women's Law Center in...

Black women’s ‘equal pay day’ reminds us how persistent the wage gap is

Black women could lose $840,040 over a 40-year career compared to non-Hispanic white men, according to the National Women’s Law Center, and in some states, that wage gap could lead to a loss over $1 million.

Black Women’s Equal Pay Day: Let’s Get That 37 Cents

According to the National Women’s Law Center, black women working full-time jobs typically make only 63 cents for every dollar paid to their white, non-Hispanic male counterparts. Today is the date marking the extra days black...

Black Women Are Rising – When Will Our Pay?

Even the women’s movement – often criticized for its lack of women of color leadership, has seen a marketed shift with African American women and other women of color – like Fatima Goss Graves at the...

7 Black Women’s Equal Pay Day Facts That Prove The Fight For Equality Is Far From Over

The National Women’s Law Center estimates that, in Ohio, a Black woman has to work until age 82 to catch up to the career earnings of a white man at age 60. In California, she has to...

Waiting for an Equal Pay Champion

Op-ed by Fatima Goss Graves, President and CEO of NWLC.