According to a 2023 report by the National Women’s Law Center, Latinas make up 8.25% of the overall workforce. However, they are overrepresented in low-wage jobs and underrepresented in high-paying positions. Specifically, Hispanic women constitute 16.2%...
“If you are working paycheck to paycheck, even just taking one day off without pay could be enough to cut into your grocery budget, affect your ability to pay rent and affect your ability to...
“We saw a widening of the wage gap that was particularly bad for Black women in 2023, and we saw that penny slide back for women overall,” says Jasmine Tucker, vice president for research at...
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...
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,...
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,...
