National Womens Law Center

Three Videos Everyone Should See Before Voting

Soraya Chemaly | Posted 04.06.2012

Soraya Chemaly

"Personhood" for zygotes cruelly subverts the very idea of a culture of life and potentially criminalizes every pregnant woman. Are you really cool with that? Even if you personally would not chose an abortion?

Most of Obama's 'Controversial' Birth Control Rule Has Been Law For A Decade

Mother Jones | Nick Baumann | Posted 02.09.2012

President Barack Obama's decision to require most employers to cover birth control and insurers to offer it at no cost has created a firestorm of cont...

Sexual Harassment Pervasive In U.S. Middle And High Schools, Survey Finds

AP | DAVID CRARY | Posted 01.06.2012

NEW YORK — It can be a malicious rumor whispered in the hallway, a lewd photo arriving by cell phone, hands groping where they shouldn't. Added ...

Jillian Berman

Recovery Leaves Women Behind

HuffingtonPost.com | Jillian Berman | Posted 12.12.2011

Women make up slightly more than half of the U.S. population, but they gained less than 4 percent of new jobs created last month, according to a recen...

If the 'End of Men' Is Here, Why Is Female Poverty Up?

Barbara & Shannon Kelley | Posted 11.14.2011

Barbara & Shannon Kelley

Sure, women may be doing better in school, but we're still up against the pay gap and glass ceiling at work and the second shift at home. And that's only half the story.

Janell Ross

Single Mothers: Poverty Climbs Without Jobs Or Help

HuffingtonPost.com | Janell Ross | Posted 11.15.2011

On a steamy summer morning inside the 116th Street food pantry in Harlem, Georgiana Williams moves slowly through the aisles. For Williams, this is im...

Laura Stampler

Will 2012 Be Our Year? Meet The Women Getting The Rest Of Us Involved

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Stampler | Posted 11.01.2011

The 2012 elections may seem like a long way off -- we still have what, 15 months before the general election, right? But women particularly have a lot...

All the Single Mothers: Winning the Future With Jobs

Jim Gibbons | Posted 05.25.2011

Jim Gibbons

If single mothers do not receive the tools that they need to provide financially for their families, we certainly cannot expect their children to grow up and meet the demands of a globalized economy.

Amanda Terkel

Justice Scalia: Women Don't Have Constitutional Protection Against Discrimination

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON -- The equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution does not protect against discrimination on the basis of gende...

Equal Pay Day - The Impact Over a Lifetime

Ashley B. Carson | Posted 05.25.2011

Ashley B. Carson

During past equal pay days I participated in bake sales where we sold cookies and brownies to men for $1.00 and to women for .75¢. To the irate men I would respond, "Yes, it is maddening -- if you feel this way about a cookie, think about how we feel over a lifetime."

Health Law Cuts The Cost Of Being A Woman

nytimes.com | Posted 11.17.2011

Being a woman is no longer a pre-existing condition. That's the new mantra, repeated triumphantly by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senator Barbara A. Mi...

Day of Action for Women's Health 1/13/2010

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 05.25.2011

Marcia G. Yerman

Women (and men) who believe that women's health care should be "safe, fair, and covered," have the opportunity to make their voices heard today by joi...

Abstinence-Only Programs: What Part of 'They Don't Work' Is Hard to Understand?

Reproductive Justice | Posted 05.25.2011

Reproductive Justice

Over 80 percent of abstinence-only curricula provide information about contraception and other reproductive health services that is medically inaccurate, exaggerated, and misleading.

Raising Women's Voices for Health Care

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 05.25.2011

Marcia G. Yerman

The financial downturn has made it crystal clear that women's economic status is intertwined with the health care equation.

The Missing Debate on Poverty

Linda Basch | Posted 05.25.2011

Linda Basch

The candidates' strategic messages on the welfare of the middle class were loud and clear during the debate, but it was their silence on poverty that was truly deafening.