“The executive orders at issue here are a naked attempt to create confusion and make DEI a boogeyman,” said Gaylynn Burroughs, senior vice president for education and workplace justice at the National Women’s Law Center....
Breaking with those briefs was one filed jointly last month by a coalition of civil rights groups — the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, LatinoJusticePRLDEF, the National Women’s Law Center, the National Employment Law Project, the...
Black women earn only 63 cents for every dollar earned by white, non-Hispanic men, according to the National Women’s Law Center. Although symbolic, this wage gap is ultimately a representation of fewer sponsorship opportunities and...
"Because infants, in particular, and also toddlers, require more intensive care, those ratios are in place to ensure they’re getting developmentally appropriate [care],” says Melissa Boteach, vice president of child care and income security at...
Chicago Women in Trades is being represented by a team of civil rights lawyers from the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. It is also receiving pro-bono counsel from Crowell & Moring LLP, along...
Black women face a unique set of challenges in the workforce. Despite being the fastest-growing group of entrepreneurs and earning more degrees than ever, we continue to experience pay gaps, job discrimination, and higher unemployment...
