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Senators from RI face criticism for voting to pass National Defense Authorization Act

In an interview with The Herald, Brian Dittmeier, the director of LGBTQI+ equality at the National Women’s Law Center, said the legislation prevents service personnel from having “access to the benefits that they need to...

ID ban on trans athletes heads to Supreme Court

Shiwali Patel is senior director of education justice with the National Women's Law Center, which has filed an amicus brief defending trans athletes in the case. Her organization argues the bans violate Constitutional equal protection...

A look at the Trump administration’s changes to education policy for English learners, HSIs, and more

Early education should be available to every single child in this country, full stop,” said Whitney Pesek, senior director of federal child care policy at the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC), in a press release....

What the government shutdown means for women

Women made up 45 percent of the entire federal workforce in September 2024, but they made up the majority of the workforce in the departments that were targeted for large-scale layoffs, according to a report...

Federal judge rules Trump administration cannot put conditions on domestic violence grants

Emily Martin, chief program officer at the National Women’s Law Center, one of five organizations representing the coalitions, also welcomed the ruling. “When this administration claims to be targeting ‘illegal DEI’ and ‘gender ideology,’ what...

Women are taking pay cuts as companies mandate return to office

The gender wage gap reversal comes after several consecutive decades of wage parity “moving in the right direction,” according to Jasmine Tucker, vice president for research at the National Women’s Law Center. But that began...