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Expansion Proposed For Women’s Health Services Without A Copay

"It's critically important for plans and people to recognize that the well-woman visit [required under the current guidelines] could happen in multiple places and require multiple visits," said Mara Gandal-Powers, senior counsel at the National...

To fight wage gap, D.C. bill would bar employers from asking about past salaries

“It’s not as though this means incoming employees will always have salaries unaffected by gender stereotypes and the gender wage gap,” said Emily Martin, general counsel and vice president for workplace justice for the National...

This small-city Virginia government may have solved the pay gap

Employers are discovering a “real value in being seen as a place that pays women and men fairly,” said Emily Martin, the general counsel and vice president for workplace justice for the Washington-based National Women’s Law...

States act on pregnancy discrimination

A principal catalyst is the Supreme Court's 2015 decision in Young v. United Parcel Service, which ruled in favor of a pregnant UPS worker whose doctor-sanctioned request to carry lighter loads was ignored. The ruling...

State stands to let $20M in child care funding slip away

Community organizations across the state and policy groups have advocated for better investments in our child care system for decades. Recently, the sad state of childcare in Michigan has been discussed at national levels with...

Some lawmakers want to make it illegal to ask your salary history

Still, it shouldn't be counted out yet, said Fatima Goss Graves, a senior vice president at the National Women's Law Center. "People can see the connection of the deep unfairness of carrying past discrimination with...