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NWLC In The Press

As Russia Consumes Attention, Trump Budget Threatens to Upend the Lives of Marginalized Women

There is simply no getting around the fact that slashing funding for Medicaid and targeting Planned Parenthood is a direct attack on the health of marginalized women, children, and families. As the National Women’s Law...

Why Work for Yourself? Women Want Flexibility; Men Want Control

“Certainly, women’s opportunities for different types of jobs and advancement are constrained by the fact that they’re shouldering the responsibility for caregiving,” said Maya Raghu, Director of Workplace Equality at the National Women’s Law Center.

It’s Time for Progressives to Fight for Women of Color

Why do women have less wealth? As the National Women’s Law Center has reported, the race and gender wage gaps result in significant financial losses over the course of women’s careers: $840,040 for Black women, $934,240 for Native...

The U.S. already has a high-quality, universal childcare program—in the military

“It was shocking,” said Helen Blank, director of childcare and early learning at the National Women’s Law Center… “It’s not a miracle,” Blank said. “It’s the determination, and you have to fund it. You have...

Not Looking for Patterns

Alexandra Brodsky, a co-founder of Know Your IX and a fellow at the National Women’s Law Center, said the OCR process is designed to be friendly to students and families who don’t have access to...

The Surprising Sexism of Maternity Leave

"Providing equal parental leave to men and women is an important step in trying to get at a lot of cultural stereotypes and starting to chip away at the assumption that women do and should...