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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...

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.