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August Jobs Report: Women Made Significant Labor Force Gains in July But It’s Still Not Enough

WASHINGTON — August saw 212,000 women join the labor force, a reversal of the previous month's significant loss, according to new National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) analysis of monthly jobs data from the Bureau of...

NWLC Celebrates the Life of Gloria Steinem

WASHINGTON — Following news of the death of Gloria Steinem, the National Women’s Law Center released the following statement from its CEO and president, Fatima Goss Graves: “Gloria Steinem did not simply make history—she inspired...

FOIA Request Seeks Records Related to Pentagon Review of Women in Ground Combat Roles

Washington, D.C. – Today, the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC), the American Civil Liberties Union’s Women’s Rights Project (WRP), and the Service Women’s Action Network (SWAN) filed a request under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)...

Court Rejects Administration’s Unlawful Restrictions on Health and Housing Grants

WASHINGTON — A federal judge has struck down sweeping, unlawful restrictions the Trump-Vance administration imposed on federal grants in a ruling that will restore critical funding for survivors of domestic and sexual violence, LGBTQI+ youth,...

NWLC Condemns Trump Rule Attacking Health Care for Trans Youth Under Medicaid and CHIP

Washington, DC – The Trump administration’s Department of Health and Human Services finalized a rule today that seeks to restrict access to health care for transgender youth under Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) in one of...

EEOC Following Radical Project 2025 To-Do List, NWLC Testifies at EEOC Hearing About Ending EEO-1 Data Collection

Washington, D.C. – The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today took another step to make it harder to identify and fight workplace discrimination, holding a public hearing on its proposal to rescind longstanding EEO-1 collection...

NWLC and Democracy Forward File Appeal to Restore Fed Workplace Protections for Trans Workers

Washington, D.C. – Today, the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) and Democracy Forward, on behalf of their client FreeState Justice, filed an appeal with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit in FreeState...

NWLC on Blanche’s Expected Confirmation Vote: ‘He Will Trade Away Women’s Rights for Personal Power’

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) released a statement ahead of the expected confirmation vote of Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, Todd Blanche, for Attorney General. “During his confirmation hearing and his recent closed-door conversation with...

July Jobs Report: Women Accounted for 100 Percent of the Labor Force Decline

WASHINGTON — Women accounted for 100 percent of the decline in the labor force in July, according to a National Women’s Law Center jobs analysis of monthly data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That...

Trump Admin’s New Head Start Rule Would Advance Its Long-Term Goal of Eliminating Program

Washington, DC —The Trump administration today proposed rolling back vital Head Start quality and safety standards, taking another step toward the Project 2025 goal of fully abolishing the early education program. The proposal — the latest in the administration's sustained campaign to undermine Head Start — would reduce the number of Head Start teachers, weaken staff and teacher credentials, eliminate health and...

NWLC Condemns Department of Education Action Weakening Protections from Discrimination in Career and Technical Education

Washington, D.C. - Today the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) condemned the U.S. Department of Education’s removal of critical guardrails protecting students from discrimination in career and technical education programs (formerly referred to as “vocational...

NWLC Reacts to Confirmation of Benjamin Flowers to Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals

Washington, D.C. - Today the Senate voted 49-46 to confirm Benjamin Flowers to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Flowers was nominated to the position by President Trump on April 9, 2026. ...

“A Grave Attack on Civil Rights Enforcement,” NWLC Reacts to EEOC Voting to End EEO-1 Data Collection

Washington, DC – Today, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) voted to issue a proposed rule that would rescind its longstanding regulations that required large employers to submit crucial workforce demographic data through the EEO-1...

Civil Rights Groups File Lawsuit Against the HHS for Withholding Information About Child Care Funding Restrictions

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, civil rights groups filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for failing to respond to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking transparency about the...

NWLC Urges Senate to Oppose Todd Blanche for Attorney General

Washington, D.C. - Today, the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) publicly announced its opposition to Todd Blanche, President Trump’s nominee for Attorney General. The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a two-day confirmation hearing for Blanche...

All 50 States Sound Alarm on Trump’s Plan to Hijack $1.1 Trillion in Federal Grants

Washington, DC – A bipartisan group of state policymakers and local government officials from all 50 states is urging the Trump administration to abandon a proposal they say would allow politics — not community needs...

June Jobs Report: Women’s Job Losses Double Compared to This Time Last Year

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The economy gained 57,000 jobs in June but these gains are small compared to the 671,000 people who left the labor force in June, according to a National Women’s Law Center (NWLC)...

NWLC Sounds Alarm on Project 2025 Plan to Politicize More Than $1 Trillion in Federal Funding

Washington, DC – The National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) released a new fact sheet detailing how a Trump administration proposal to overhaul federal grantmaking would give presidential appointees unprecedented political control over more than $1.1 trillion in annual...

NWLC Reacts to EEOC Rescinding Decades-Old Affirmative Action Guidelines

Washington, DC – The EEOC announced today that it voted to rescind its longstanding guidance documents on affirmative action. Rescinding these guidelines does not overrule Supreme Court case law, but it will create confusion for...

NWLC on SCOTUS Hecox Decision: ‘Devastating Setback for Title IX’

WASHINGTON D.C. - The Supreme Court’s ruling today in Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B. P. J. allows states to ban transgender women and girls from playing on women and girls school sports...

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