National Womens Law Center

Three Videos Everyone Should See Before Voting

Soraya Chemaly | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: RHReality Check, National Advocates for Pregnant Women, 14th Amendment, Personhood Pledge, Women's Rights, War on Women, Bei Bei Shuai, Reproductive Rights, Personhood, Amanda Kimbrough, Lynn Paltrow, Aclu, Zygote-Rights, The Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP), National Organization for Women, Right Rides for Women's Safety, American Association of University Women, Naral, Girls for Gender Equity, SPARK Reproductive Justice, Reproductive Health Technologies Project, Planned Parenthood, Laura Pemberton, Voces Latinas, National Women's Law Center, Trust Women, Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice Human Rights, Girls Education and Mentoring Services (GEMS), Melissa Rowland, Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice, Video, Politics News
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?

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

Mother Jones | Nick Baumann | Posted 02.09.2012

Read More: 1964 Civil Rights Act, Obama Birth Control, Belmont Abbey, Sara Rosenbaum, National Women's Law Center, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Birth Control Rules, DePaul University, George W. Bush, Birth Control Health Care, Title VII, Judy Waxman, Erickson v. Bartell Drug Co., Barack Obama, Politics News

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...

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

AP | DAVID CRARY | Posted 01.06.2012

Read More: Catherine Hill, American Association of University Women, Video, National Women's Law Center, Bill Bond, Sexual Harassment, National Association of Secondary School Principals, Niobe Way, New York University, Fatima Goss Graves, Sexual Harassment in Schools, Education News

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 ...

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Jillian Berman

Recovery Leaves Women Behind

HuffingtonPost.com | Jillian Berman | Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: Business News, Working Women, Video, National Women's Law Center, Unemployment, Joblessness, Jobless Rate, Female-Unemployment, Business News

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...

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

Barbara & Shannon Kelley | Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: National Women's Law Center, End of Men, Women's Legal Defense and Education Fund, Slate/Intelligence Squared, Slate, Gender Wage Gap, The Atlantic, Hanna Rosin, Poverty Statistics, Families, Women News
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.

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Janell Ross

Single Mothers: Poverty Climbs Without Jobs Or Help

HuffingtonPost.com | Janell Ross | Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: Marriage, Heritage Foundation, Video, Single Mothers, Poverty, National Women's Law Center, Women Income, Economic Policy Institute, Food Stamps, Third World America, Minor Children, African American Women, Business News

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...

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Laura Stampler

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Stampler | Posted 11.01.2011

Read More: Women's Empowerment, Women's Information Network, National Women's Law Center, Women's Issues, 2012 Election, Elections 2012, HERvotes Blog Carnival, National Congress of Black Women, Hervotes, The 2012 Project, Women 2012 Election, Politics News

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...

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All the Single Mothers: Winning the Future With Jobs

Jim Gibbons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Financial Training, Walmart Foundation, Single Mothers, Employment, Jobs, Margaret McKenna, Beyond Jobs, Goodwill, Goodwill Industries International, Jim Gibbons, Grant, Unemployment Rate, Obama, Unemployed, Unemployment, National Women's Law Center, Long-Term Unemployment, Obama State of the Union Address, Obama State of the Union, Long-Term Unemployed, State of the Union, Impact News
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.

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Amanda Terkel

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011

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

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Equal Pay Day - The Impact Over a Lifetime

Ashley B. Carson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Aauw, Older Women's League, National Women's Law Center, Income Inequality, Lilly Ledbetter, Tom Harkin, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, OWL - the Voice of Midlife and Older Women, Equal Pay, Politics News
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."

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Health Law Cuts The Cost Of Being A Woman

nytimes.com | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Maternity Coverage, Abortion, Child Care, Sex Descrimination, National Women's Law Center, Gender-Rating, Women's Health, Health Insurance, Health Care, Home-Health Care, Gender Rating, Healthy Living News

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...

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

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Abortion, Health Care Bill, Women's Reproductive Rights, Women's Rights, Health Care Debate, Abortion Rights, Hyde Amendment, Freedom of Choice Act, Sen. Ben Nelson, Center for American Progress, Politics, Social Media, National Women's Law Center, Abortion Laws, Stupak Amendment, Women's Health, Health Care Reform, Health Care, Pro-Choice, The Women's Media Center, Politics News
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...

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

Reproductive Justice | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Comprehensive Sexuality Education, Max Baucus, Abstinence Education, National Women's Law Center, Senate Finance Committee, Abstinence Only, 2010 Budget, Politics News
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.

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Raising Women's Voices for Health Care

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: LGBT Health Care, Immigrant Health Coverage, National Women's Law Center, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Raising Women's Voices, House Resolution 676, Women's Health, Health Care Reform, Health Coverage, Maternity Health Care, Women of Color Health Care, Health Care, Gender Rating in Health Care, Amnesty International, Politics News
Marcia G. Yerman

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

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The Missing Debate on Poverty

Linda Basch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women Unemployment, John McCain, 14 Million Women Living in Poverty, Poverty, Women Poverty, Economic Crisis, Gender Wage Gap, Home Mortgages, Secretary of Treasury, Single Working Mother, Poverty Stricken, Presidential Debates, Barack Obama, Federal Bailout, National Women's Law Center, Single Mothers, Unemployment, Child Healthcare, Healthcare, Politics News
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.

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