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NWLC In The Press

Americans are shelling out thousands per month on childcare. Private equity could be making the crisis worse

“The pandemic laid bare and exacerbated the fragility of the market,” says Melissa Boteach, vice president of income security and childcare at the National Women’s Law Center. The burdens created by COVID-19 created thousands of...

How to Make #MeToo Offenders Pay

Scores of strategies are available to lawmakers that would protect survivors of sexual abuse from defamation lawsuits aimed at silencing them. These suits have the potential to be ruled as SLAPP suits, or strategic lawsuits...

Las madres latinas que trabajan son las más afectadas por la brecha salarial en EE.UU.

"Esta brecha resulta en una pérdida anual para cada latina de 39.000 dólares. Es una cantidad grande que se le está robando a las mamás latinas cada año", dijo a EFE Diana Ramírez, gerente de...

Biden made U.S. courts more diverse. Six judges discuss why it matters

“When I graduated 20 years ago, I don’t even know if I imagined that in my lifetime, I would see a Black woman on the Supreme Court,” said Fatima Goss Graves, president and chief executive...

Business leaders applaud salary transparency law in Mass., with some compromises

“We were really excited to see this happen in Massachusetts,” said Da Hae Kim of the National Women’s Law Center, which advocates for salary transparency. “This is just the latest in a wave of transparency...

The Biggest Loser of the Presidential Debate? The Childcare Crisis

The childcare crisis is only getting worse, thanks to the end of pandemic-era federal funding that supported 220,000 daycare centers across the country. Eleven states and Washington DC have stepped in with their own funding to make...