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How to Address the Crisis for Working Moms

Fatima Goss Graves President and CEO, National Women’s Law Center Working women take on the vast majority of caregiving responsibilities and study after study shows they suffer a penalty at work as a result. They...

Education Secretary Linda McMahon Moves to Strip Federal Funds from Virginia School Districts Over Transgender Student Protections

While OCR has made clear its willingness to investigate these policies, the shifting language of federal guidance has sown confusion among schools seeking to comply with both federal and state regulations. As recently as February,...

Women’s Equality Day 2025, The SAVE Act, And Protecting Voting Rights

If we look at the history of the passage of the 19th Amendment, it helps illustrate the real-world impact that voting rights can have on policy. “When the 19th Amendment was first passed in 1920,...

Riley Gaines Finished 5th. Now She Believes Victory Is in Her Grasp.

Critics argue that conservatives are not always advocates of Title IX’s ethos in the broader sense by lobbying for, say, better facilities for women’s teams. The Trump administration moved in June to quietly roll back some Title...

Campuses reopen under Trump administration sexual assault rules critics say protect the accused more than survivors

The National Women’s Law Center, which fights for gender justice, is involved in ongoing legal action to challenge the Trump administration’s rules. The back-and-forth on Title IX doesn’t exist in a vacuum, Shiwali Patel, a...

Suspending monthly economic reports would be really bad for women of color

The National Women’s Law Center, which also publishes its monthly analysis of women in the workforce using BLS’ data, said in a statement that “losing this impartial data will undermine efforts to improve women’s economic...