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Civil Rights Groups File Lawsuit Against DOD for Withholding Records on Study of Women in Ground Combat Roles

NEW YORK – Today, the American Civil Liberties Union’s Women’s Rights Project (WRP), the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC), and the Service Women’s Action Network (SWAN) filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) for failing to respond...

New NWLC Report Reveals Women Blocked from ACA-Guaranteed Birth Control

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) released a new report: Intended vs. Implemented: The Still Unfulfilled Promise of the Affordable Care Act’s Birth Control Benefit. The report reveals a pattern of...

State Legislators from all 50 States Urge HHS to Rescind Head Start Rule

WASHINGTON, D.C. — More than 360 state legislators representing all 50 states yesterday called on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to rescind its proposed rewrite of the Head Start Program Performance...

NWLC Condemns Recent EEOC Attacks on Trans Workers

Washington – This week, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced multiple settlements that undermine the rights of transgender workers. The National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) condemns these actions and EEOC’s ongoing evasion of its...

September Jobs Report: Black Women’s Unemployment Increased

WASHINGTON — Data reveals 451,000 fewer women aged 20 and over are in the labor force now than in January, according to new National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) analysis of monthly jobs data from the...

Court Halts Unlawful DOJ Grant Restrictions For Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Providers

Washington, D.C. – A federal judge in Rhode Island has ruled in favor of state domestic violence and sexual assault coalitions and providers, ending a lawsuit that blocked the Trump-Vance administration’s unlawful conditions on federal...

NWLC Warns Dept. of Education’s Title IX Rule Erodes Protections for Student Survivors

WASHINGTON D.C., - Today the Department of Education issued a rule formally reviving the 2020 Title IX rule, which significantly weakens protections against sexual harassment in education. The Department’s move formally rescinds President Biden’s 2024...

NWLC Responds to Sentencing in Weinstein Trial

Washington, D.C. — Today, Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 15 years in prison after he was found guilty last year of a first-degree criminal sex act. Fatima Goss Graves, president and CEO of the National...

NWLC Condemns House Committee Passage of Pronatalist, Anti-Abortion Moms.Gov Legislation

Washington, DC – The House Committee on Ways and Means advanced the Republican-led H.R. 10356, a bill that would further politicize the pronatalist, anti-woman website, Moms.gov, which the Trump administration launched in May 2026. “Instead of fixing the politically biased,...

New Polling Finds Americans Struggling to Afford Basic Needs While Trump Administration Agenda Remains Unpopular

Washington, DC -- A new National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) survey conducted in partnership with YouGov from Aug. 12–18, finds that rising costs are leading many people to forgo essentials such as food, transportation, and...

Fatima Goss Graves Joins Members of Congress and Advocates to Protect Head Start

Washington, DC – Fatima Goss Graves, president and CEO the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC), provided opening remarks today at a press conference attended by parents, children, advocates, and members of Congress, including members of the Democratic...

New Poverty Data Analysis by NWLC Shows the Wage Gap Widened for Black Women

Washington, DC — Today, the Census Bureau released its annual national poverty, income, and health insurance data for 2025, finding that Black women are still being left behind in earnings even as the wage gap...

Lower-Income Households Now Spend 95% of Their Pre-Tax Income on Basic Needs

Two Decades of Data Reveal that the Lower-Income Households Now Spend More of their Income on Basic Needs as Richer Households Spend Less Washington, DC – Spending on basic needs has consumed an increasingly larger share...

NWLC on Trump-Vance Pronatalist Proposal to Direct Child Care Funds to Stay-At-Home Parents

Washington, DC – The New York Times reported that the Trump-Vance administration plans to overhaul the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) by redirecting federal child care dollars away from families who need child care in order...

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...

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