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The Biased Policies That Are Pushing Black Girls Out of School

When children are punished for unfair and unspecific infractions like “defiance,” they are more likely to mistrust adults, they end up with lower grades from losing class time, and they have a higher likelihood of...

The gender wage gap in the US could get worse under Donald Trump

"I like to think of wage gap as an overall measure of women's equality in society," Fatima Goss Graves, a senior vice president at the National Women's Law Center, said.

Beyond birth control, how Trumpcare might affect women

In 2009, the year before the health law passed, just 13 percent of individual plans that were available to a 30-year-old woman in all the state capitals offered maternity benefits, according to an analysis by...

Business leaders say D.C. bill forbidding questions about salary would be a burden

But women of color earn much less than white men, both nationwide and within the District, according to the National Women’s Law Center. The organization found that black women in D.C. made 55.6 cents for...

Trump Taps Hollywood’s Mnuchin for Treasury and Dines with Romney

Marcia D. Greenberger, a president of the National Women’s Law Center, a research and advocacy group, said Mr. Price “would have a devastating impact on women’s health.”

Women Could Pay More For Insurance Under Trump Just For Being Women

"Our concern is going back to a world where insurance companies are writing their own rules again, and returning women to those bad old days in health care and losing all the progress we've made,"...