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What’s Next on Title IX

Alexandra Brodsky, a fellow at the National Women’s Law Center, said not every group comes to the issue of campus sexual assault in good faith. But she said she’s been struck by the number of...

Betsy DeVos’ Title IX approach fails to trust women who report sexual assault

Jackson’s dismissal of the overwhelming majority of sexual assault reports not only reveals that she is unfit to head the Office for Civil Rights, it also confirms the persistence of what Fatima Goss Graves of...

Trump proposal relies on claims by religious researchers

Advocates for reproductive rights said the government’s proposed policy change is skewed by ideology. “It’s not mainstream at all,” said Mara Gandal-Powers, senior counsel for the National Women’s Law Center. “It’s not mainstream science and...

Andy Harris is working against equal pay in Md.

Equal pay for Americans should be non-negotiable — and shouldn’t be a debate at all here in Maryland. Yet even as we just observed Black Women’s Equal Pay Day and years of efforts to close...

Congressman Yoder pushes for bill to expand child care tax benefits

Amy Matsui, who works on child care tax issues at the National Women’s Law Center, said the bill “is a really important step forward.” “The high cost of child care is making families crazy,” Matsui...

How will survivors of campus sexual assault fare under Trump’s new order?

“We are deeply worried that the department will base policy on rape myths like those Candice Jackson perpetuated in her recent remarks,” said Brodsky, who represents many such clients in her work for the National...