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The Depressing Silence of the Actors Who Have Recently Worked With Woody Allen

Selena Gomez reportedly donated more than her salary from the film to Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund, an initiative housed at and administered by the National Women’s Law Center, but has not disavowed Allen publicly. When asked late last year whether she considered Allen’s past...

You Don’t Have A Right To Know The Outcome Of Your Sexual Harassment Complaint

“Employers have to balance these pieces, but I think they have erred on the side of not communicating important information to the individual who came forward,” Sunu Chandy, legal director of the National Women's Law...

Losing Your Job for Sexual Harassment Is Not a Violation of Due Process

Alexandra Brodsky, an attorney with the National Women’s Law Center and co-founder of Know Your IX, also argues that the impression that men are being removed from their jobs without a proper investigation may be...

Trump Carves Health-Care Discrimination Wing Into Civil Rights Office

Expect the administration to push the boundaries of law, according to Gretchen Borchelt, vice president for reproductive rights and health at the National Women’s Law Center. Trump-era officials “have been willing to take the law...

Amazon Joins Growing List of Employers That Won’t Ask Your Salary History

In 2016, women made about 80 cents on a man’s dollar, a number that has remained mostly stagnant. The gap is wider for women of color and has been growing for Millennial women. One of the reasons for this,...

New HHS civil rights division charged with protecting health-care workers with moral objections

Kelli Garcia, senior counsel at the National Women's Law Center, said “the wording on the rule creating the office appears to open the door for discrimination against patients because of their sexual orientation, gender identity...