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For Women Behind The Camera, Sexual Harassment Is Part Of The Job

“It’s a very male-dominated industry, which is always a big risk factor for harassment,” Emily Martin, general counsel and vice president for Education and Workplace Justice at the National Women’s Law Center, told HuffPost.

It’s ‘Scary,’ But Transgender Patients Are Fighting Trump’s Health-Care Discrimination Agenda

“What if a doctor wouldn’t put a cast on your broken arm because you’re transgender?” the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) asked in a video recapping various forms of discrimination that could have the administration’s...

In Yale Rape Case, Jurors Bought Stale Victim Stereotypes — Just Like The Defense Hoped

So to see Pattis “steering into these stereotypes” about victims and abuse, as National Women’s Law Center President and CEO Fatima Goss Graves put it, is all the more jarring because it worked. “Culturally, we’re...

Jurnee Smollett-Bell Says “There Is No Time’s Up Without Women Of Color” During Time’s Up Panel At SXSW

Ever since Time’s Up was launched at the Golden Globes, it has proven to be a movement that is more than wearing all-black on the red carpet and an accessory you pin to the lapel...

Here’s How The Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund Actually Works

One of the goals is to help defray the legal costs for women who've been sexually harassed. The Time's Up legal defense fund has reached $21 million. But how does the fund actually work? NPR's...

A Yale Student Accused Her Classmate of Rape. His Lawyers Asked What She Was Wearing and How Much She Drank

That type of questioning blames alleged victims and may discourage other women from coming forward with accusations, said Fatima Goss Graves, president of the National Women’s Law Center, which advocates for women’s rights, including on...