"These rules aren't neutral: many target girls, and especially black girls, by regulating skirt length and headwraps," a report on school dress codes in the District of Columbia that was compiled by the National Women's...
That's largely because female construction workers "face outright gender discrimination" and "extreme sexual harassment and denigration," as Fatima Goss Graves, CEO of the National Women's Law Center in Washington, D.C., said in written testimony to...
Still, nearly two-thirds of minimum-wage workers across the country are female, according to the National Women's Law Center. But women are underrepresented in government, which makes it more difficult to change laws to close the...
“A lot of terms like ‘settled law’ or ‘respecting precedent’ are troubling,” Gretchen Borchelt, the vice president for reproductive rights and health at the National Women’s Law Center, told Vox. “They don’t actually tell you...
According to advocates, those essential health benefits are just as important as coverage for pre-existing conditions for anyone who can become pregnant. “If you lose the whole set of consumer protections, including those essential health...
“If there is a culture of harassment within an organization, that probably suggests broader problems around gender equity,” says Emily Martin, vice president for education and workplace justice at the National Women’s Law Center. In...
