Washington, DC ( April 17) — Last night, the Department of Labor placed hundreds of staff from its Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs on administrative leave, undermining decades of progress by a civil rights...
(Washington, D.C. April 15) — Today, the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) filed Freedom of Information Act requests to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) seeking information on recent actions that threaten the agency’s...
Washington, D.C. (April 14, 2025) — A new report from the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) exposes the devastating reality of reproductive health care and resource deserts where abortion care, pregnancy care, broadband internet, and...
Washington, DC (April 11) — The National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) released a statement following reporting that Donald Trump and DOGE fired the entire office at the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of...
WASHINGTON, D.C. (April 11, 2025) - The National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) and GLSEN are leading more than 40 civil rights and education organizations in urging the Department of Education to stop their illegal weaponization of civil rights laws from discriminating against transgender,...
Washington, D.C. (April 9, 2025) — A new report from the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) exposes the growing threats to birth control rights and access in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s decision to...
(WASHINGTON) April 4 — The Trump administration’s announcement today of a Title IX “special investigation team” is a preposterous, thinly-veiled attempt to erase protections for transgender students in schools. And it comes after a vile,...
Washington, DC (April 4) – As the Senate prepares to vote on their reconciliation bill that would cut Medicaid, the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) released a new report exposing what would happen to the direct care workforce if...
Washington, DC (April 3) – The National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) released a statement following Harmeet Dhillon's confirmation to lead the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Civil Rights Division. “Harmeet Dhillon is dangerously unqualified to lead...
Sacramento, Calif. – (April 1, 2025) Today, the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) filed a complaint against Providence St. Joseph Hospital and controlling parent entities on behalf of Dr. Anna Nusslock DC, who was illegally...
FORT WORTH, Texas (April 1) — On Monday, the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) filed a motion to intervene in a federal lawsuit to block enforcement of the Trump administration’s harmful 2020 Title IX rule...
Washington, DC (March 27) – As the country continues to reel amid the fallout of DOGE’s attacks on the federal government, the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) has launched a new resource to track the...
WASHINGTON (March 26) – The National Women’s Law Center (NWLC), the National Partnership for Women and Families, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. and other major civil and workers’ rights groups are demanding the Equal...
WASHINGTON, DC (March 20) - President Trump’s executive order today to gut the Department of Education is an attack on women, children, workers, educators, and families. It also attempts to fulfill a clear goal of...
Washington, DC (March 19) – The Trump administration once again is wasting government money to pursue its agenda of trying to erase transgender people from public life. Following news today that the Department of Education’s...
WASHINGTON, DC (March 13, 2025) – The White House has withdrawn David Weldon’s nomination for Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) after he failed to secure enough support in the Senate....
(Washington, DC - March 11) – The Trump-Vance administration’s decision to slash half of the workers at the Department of Education is part of its plan, laid out in Project 2025, to demolish the Department...
WASHINGTON (March 10, 2025) – The Senate today confirmed Lori Chavez-DeRemer as Secretary of Labor. Gaylynn Burroughs, vice president for education and workplace justice at the National Women’s Law Center, issued the following statement in...
Washington, DC (March 10) - The Supreme Court today announced it will hear Chiles v. Salazar, a challenge to a law in Colorado banning harmful “conversion therapy”’ efforts on LGBTQI+ youth. Ma'ayan Anafi, senior counsel...
Washington, DC (March 6) - The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) found Maine’s Department of Education to be in violation of Title IX because of the state’s inclusion of trans students in school...
