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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...

Trump Gives Health Workers New Religious Liberty Protections

Fatima Goss Graves, the president of the National Women’s Law Center, a research and advocacy group, said that, far from protecting religious liberty, the new unit would protect health workers who “use their religious or...

Designers To Auction Golden Globes Dresses To Benefit ‘Time’s Up’ Fund

“We’re thrilled that actors and others in the entertainment industry are leading in this extraordinary way to end the scourge of workplace sexual harassment,” said Fatima Goss Graves, president and CEO of the National Women’s Law...

‘All the Money in the World.’ But Not Enough to Pay Men and Women the Same

Pay decisions are usually made in secret. And even though it is illegal to do under the National Labor Relations Act, many employers expressly prohibit employees from discussing pay with one another or inquiring about...

Turning the Hill’s ‘Me Too’ Moment Into Legislation

So what will all this bipartisan energy amount to? Outside experts say there is much to admire in the current bills. They all seem “fairly comprehensive,” said Maya Raghu, Director of Workplace Equality for the...