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NWLC In The Press

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs faces growing wave of civil suits as criminal trial ends

  • The Guardian
Fatima Goss Graves, president and CEO of the National Women’s Law Center and co-founder of the Time’s Up legal defense fund, issued a statement expressing solidarity with the “courageous and inspiring survivors who chose to...

The hidden bad news in the June jobs report

  • CNN
More women are leaving the workforce: The data indicates that job gains could be going mostly to men: Since January, a net 338,000 women have left the labor force, while 183,000 men have joined the...

Supreme Court Will Hear Challenges to Bans on Athletic Participation by Transgender Students

  • American Civil Liberties Union
Many women athletes have spoken out against bullying and discrimination against transgender student athletes. This includes Billie Jean King, Megan Rapinoe, Dawn Staley, Sue Bird, and Brianna Turner, as well as leading organizations fighting for...

Supreme Court will decide whether states can ban transgender athletes

  • San Francisco Chronicle
On the other side, Shiwali Patel of the National Women's Law Center said the court should recognize that "laws like these harm all women and girls by inviting gender policing and scrutiny of any woman...

Victim-survivor groups dismayed by Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs verdict

  • Women's Agenda
Fatima Goss Graves, president and CEO of the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) and cofounder of the TIME’S UP Legal Defense Fund, issued a statement too, showing solidarity with the “courageous and inspiring survivors who...

Black women’s unemployment is rising. Economists say it’s a warning sign.

  • The 19th
The high rate of unemployed Black women is also concerning because Black women tend to remain unemployed for longer than other workers, said Jasmine Tucker, the vice president for research at the National Women’s Law...