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McDonald’s flipped its logo to ‘celebrate’ women. Then came the backlash

It is also not the first time women's groups have identified the minimum wage as a feminist issue. The National Women's Law Center, a nonprofit advocacy group, has argued that raising the minimum is key to closing the gender...

A College Student Was Found Not Guilty In A Rare Campus Rape Trial. Here’s Why The Case Is A Big Deal.

The case could also deter other sexual assault victims from taking their attacker to court because of how easily defense attorneys can spin past interactions and alcohol "to make juries skeptical of the victim," said...

Clarification: Oscar’s Time’s Up story

In a story March 2, The Associated Press reported that the Time’s Up movement in partnership with the National Women’s Law Center are using a legal fund to connect victims of harassment or discrimination with...

What you can do on International Women’s Day, March 8

If you can’t make it out to a march or event on International Women’s Day, donate what you can to organizations like Black Women’s Blueprint, a group dedicated to ending sexual violence for Black women and...

High schools in New Orleans try a new way to keep at-risk kids from dropping out

Experts who study young women struggling in school say that a sense of defeat is common. "Once girls are behind, they often give up on themselves," said researcher Kayla Patrick, an author of the National...

Black Children Will Be the Victims of Armed Teachers

More broadly, African-American girls are 5.5 times more likely to be suspended from school than their white peers, according to the National Women’s Law Center, and 18% of African American boys received out-of-school suspensions versus only...