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Los desafíos económicos que enfrentan las mujeres latinas en EEUU

Un nuevo análisis del National Women's Law Center, la pandemia aumentó negativamente las desigualdades raciales y de género en la economía estadounidense, especialmente en las mujeres.

Women and Families Deserve More Than Policies That Don’t Deliver What happens when the “village” it takes to raise a child never shows up?

“Everybody is going to need care at some point in their life,” says Melissa Boteach, Vice President of Child Care and Income Security at the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC). “We’ve taken this universal experience...

Grassroots College Networks Distribute Emergency Contraceptives on Campus

“It’s really growing and a really interesting new route for people to get what they need in trusted ways, especially in Texas and other states where there are repercussions from the Dobbs decision,” said Mara Gandal-Powers, director...

Students and advocates ‘frustrated’ with Biden administration’s slow response to finalize Title IX changes

Student survivors of sexual harassment and assault also need the Biden administration to finalize their proposed Title IX changes, said Shiwali Patel, director of justice for student survivors and senior counsel for the National Women’s...

Biden promised to reform Title IX. Students are tired of waiting

“They’re now entering into their fourth school year under this rule that has significantly deteriorated their rights,” said Shiwali Patel, the director of Justice for Student Survivors at the National Women’s Law Center, in an...

These women want careers as truck drivers. They say they can’t get a job because of their gender.

Same-sex training policies were initially put in place to protect women from sexual harassment or hostility in the male-dominated workplace. Female drivers do report high rates of harassment — in one poll, a third of...