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‘Care Is Baked Into a Healthy, Functioning Economy’: Economists Lenore Palladino and Rakeen Mabud on How to Advance Economic Justice

Palladino and Mabud are joined in this episode by labor icon Dolores Huerta, Springboard to Opportunities founding CEO Aisha Nyandoro, National Women’s Law Center vice president for education and workplace justice Gaylynn Burroughs, and labor...

Are return-to-work orders, layoffs driving moms from workforce?

Julie Vogtman of National Women’s Law Center told Time that it’s “not a coincidence that women’s participation in the workforce is falling as flexibility disappears. Women capitalized on remote work and flexibility during the pandemic...

Will the SCORE Act Sideline Women Athletes? Title IX Advocates Push for NIL Protections

“This creates a huge disparity based on gender and violates Title IX,” said Shiwali Patel, senior director of safe and inclusive schools for the National Women’s Law Center. “Given that Congress has decided to address...

The Politics of Hysterectomy—and the Normalization of Women’s Pain

In 2022, the National Women’s Law Center published a report showing 31 states and D.C. continue to allow nonconsensual sterilizations for disabled people, incarcerated people, and immigrants—through policies that offer judges significant leeway to decide...

VA proposes ban on abortion services for veterans, including in cases of rape and incest

The proposal claims the VA will continue to allow abortions in cases where a pregnant person’s life is in danger. But, Jackii Wang, senior legislative analyst at National Women’s Law Center, told the American Independent...

Government job cuts take a bite out of Chicago’s economy

The federal government is a significant employer of women of color, with Black women, Latinas and Asian women all having a greater presence in the federal workforce compared to the private sector, the National Women's...