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NWLC In The Press

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?...

Advocates vow to fight Trump rollback of transgender protections

“The Trump-Pence Administration is sanctioning blatant discrimination in health care by attempting to reverse the landmark health care rights law,” said Fatima Goss Graves, president and CEO of the National Women’s Law Center. “We are...

Trump is gutting health care protections for transgender people and those who have had abortions

Gretchen Borchelt, vice president for reproductive rights and health at the National Women’s Law Center, told BuzzFeed News that the Obama-era regulation was “the first time we had this broad of a civil rights law...

Who does Alabama’s abortion ban affect most? Experts explain the law’s disproportionate impact

Heather Shumaker, senior counsel at the National Women's Law Center, agrees that economic status and geographic location both play a huge role when it comes to access to safe abortions. She says that near-total abortion...

What can be done to stop the criminalization of black girls? Rebuild the system

“School pushout is an issue of bias and policy. There are biases that people hold against black girls and there are policies in place that allow them to act out those biases out and enable...

Here are 8 recent laws helping women in the workplace

“It’s a really exciting time,” said Andrea Johnson, senior counsel for state policy at the National Women’s Law Center, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that advocates for women’s equality. “Progress has been stalled in Congress and...