(Washington, D.C.) This week, a Florida court ruled to continue the case of student Jane Doe who sued her school, Carol City High School in MDCPS, the fourth-largest school district in the country. The United...
The following is a statement by Fatima Goss Graves, President and CEO of the National Women's Law Center (NWLC): “The Trump-Pence Administration will stop at nothing to strip patients of the care they deserve. This...
(Washington, D.C.) Today, the House Labor-Health and Human Services subcommittee’s FY 2020 appropriations bill was introduced. The bill includes an additional $2.4 billion for the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG), which will allow...
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) The National Women’s Law Center (NWLC), a preeminent advocate for advancing equality and opportunity for women and girls, today announced its inaugural Resident Fellowship program, and named Julie Kohler and Diana Ramirez its...
(Washington, D.C.) Today, the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) released “We Are Not Invisible,” a report coauthored by 13 middle and high school students that seeks to address the mental health crisis impacting Latina students...
(Washington, D.C.) Today, Senators Sherrod Brown, Michael Bennet, Richard Durbin, and Ron Wyden, along with 40 cosponsors, introduced the Working Families Tax Relief Act of 2019. Building upon the proven success of the Earned Income...
The following is a statement by Fatima Goss Graves, President and CEO of the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC): There’s no question we need proactive legislation at a time when the Trump-Pence Administration continues to...
(Washington, D.C.) Today, the Bringing an End to Harassment by Enhancing Accountability and Rejecting Discrimination (BE HEARD) in the Workplace Act is being introduced in Congress, by Senator Patty Murray and Congresswomen Katherine Clark and...
The following is a statement by Fatima Goss Graves, President and CEO of the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC): “Today’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the possibility of instituting an unconstitutional 20-week abortion ban makes...
(Washington, D.C.) Yesterday, Senate Republicans made a rule change that slashes the amount of post-cloture debate time on district court nominees and sub-cabinet level executive nominees to just two hours. The following is a statement...
The following is a statement by Fatima Goss Graves, President and CEO of the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC): “We have to talk about sexual assault in every space. Again and again, people we love...
(Washington, D.C.) Today, the House of Representatives passed the Paycheck Fairness Act with the support of every Democrat in the House and seven House Republicans. The Paycheck Fairness Act will update and strengthen the Equal...
The National Women’s Law Center mourns the loss of former U.S. Senator Birch Bayh, the principal Senate sponsor of the landmark civil rights law Title IX, which prohibits sex discrimination in education. Known as “the...
The following is a statement by Fatima Goss Graves, President and CEO of the National Women's Law Center (NWLC): “With the confirmation of Neomi Rao, the Trump-Pence Administration continues on its mission to stack the...
(Washington, D.C.) Today, the Equality Act is set to be introduced in Congress, with bipartisan support in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. The Equality Act would provide protections for LGBTQ people across...
(Washington, D.C.) Today, the EACH Woman Act, or the Equal Access to Abortion Coverage in Health Insurance Act, was introduced in Congress, in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. The EACH Woman Act...
The following is a statement by Fatima Goss Graves, President and CEO of the National Women's Law Center (NWLC): “President Trump’s budget proposal makes one thing appallingly clear: his priorities lie with the rich and powerful –...
(Washington, D.C.) The Trump Administration’s Department of Labor (DOL) has just proposed a rule to dramatically weaken the final overtime rule issued by the Obama Administration in 2016. The 2016 rule updated the salary threshold under...
(Washington, D.C.) In August 2017, the Trump administration blocked a significant Obama-era equal pay data collection initiative that required companies with over 100 employees to confidentially report information about what they pay their employees by...
(Washington, D.C.) Yesterday, the Supreme Court took action in Yovino v Rizo, a case addressing employer justifications for paying a woman less than a comparable male employee under the federal Equal Pay Act. Last year, the...
