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Cruz, Ocasio-Cortez efforts on birth control access face major obstacles

Still, reproductive rights groups argue that if women are paying for insurance, they shouldn’t have to pay more for over-the-counter birth control at the pharmacy. “Fundamentally, birth control is health care, and so it should...

The real reason companies like Target are offering paid parental leave and child-care

“The more employers that want to offer child-care options, the better,” agreed Melissa Boteach, vice president of income security and child care/early learning at the National Women’s Law Center. “But in the meantime, it’s really...

Despite #MeToo glare, efforts to ban secret settlements stop short

Despite the modesty of the changes overall, Andrea Johnson, senior counsel for state policy at the National Women’s Law Center, said she was heartened by the progress — especially for an issue that didn’t emerge...

Anita Hill at the New Rules Summit: Leaders have to step up

Since #MeToo went viral a year and a half ago, victories have spanned the cultural and the concrete, and “that’s exciting,” said Fatima Goss Graves, the president of the National Women’s Law Center and a...

With ‘Roe’ on the line, some Democrats seek federal codification of abortion rights

Leila Abolfazli, director of federal reproductive rights at the National Women’s Law Center, told Rewire.News that when discussing the codification of Roe, “language is important because, especially in the moment we’re in right now, I think it’s really...

USWNT fights for equal pay as it fights to defend World Cup title

Notes Neena K. Chaudhry, senior counsel of the Washington-based National Women’s Law Center: “You can’t just say, ‘The market doesn’t want to pay women as much without asking, ‘How much are the women being supported?...