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Why did the Energy Department issue a Title IX rule?

Still, Shiwali Patel, senior director of safe and inclusive schools for the National Women’s Law Center, called the Energy Department rule “blatant sexism, and harmful to women and girls.” ″The Trump administration is trying to gut...

Energy Department seeks to roll back Title IX protections for women’s, education programs

“Technically, it just takes one significant adverse comment for them to have to withdraw the rule or to go through the notice of proposed rulemaking,” said Shiwali Patel, senior director of safe and inclusive schools...

Trump’s Energy Department proposes dismantling parts of Title IX allowing girls on boys’ teams

DFRs are exempt from parts of the standard rulemaking process, with which federal agencies must comply under the Administrative Procedures Act. Agencies may use DFRs when addressing issues that are technical, uncontroversial or unlikely to elicit a...

Weinstein trial: What the verdict means for the MeToo movement

But has anything really changed since the first Weinstein trial? Jennifer Mondino of the National Women's Law Center says in a ZDF interview: "People are more likely to believe survivors today than they were at...

Administration Rescinds Policy Requiring Hospitals to Provide Emergency Abortions

Fatima Goss Graves, president and CEO of the National Women’s Law Center, said rescinding the Biden directive “will put lives at risk.” “To be clear: this action doesn’t change hospitals’ legal obligations, but it does...

Revoking EMTALA guidance on abortions will only further confuse doctors, experts say

"The rescission of this guidance is, contrary to its own statement, only further lending into the confusion that exists in emergency departments around the country, and it will put women's lives at risk," Alison Tanner,...