The National Women's Law Center filed a Title IX lawsuit today against a Mich. district that allegedly failed to respond to the sexual assault of a female high school student by a player on the school's basketball team.
Even with those protections, the typical single elderly woman living on about $18,000 a year would lose about $6,000 by age 85 compared with current law, according to calculations by the National Women’s Law Center.
Since 2010, the starting point of the factory-sector recovery, women have lost 18,000 manufacturing jobs while men have gained more than 535,000 across the country, according to a new study by the National Women's Law Center (view PDF).
“He’s a bad dude,” said Judy Waxman, vice president of Health and Reproductive Rights at the National Women’s Law Center. “He is not representative of compliant doctors. We reiterate our position that women need safe, legal access to abortion to get good care.”
A study by the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) found that the District had the slimmest gender wage gap in the nation. According to that report, which evaluated pay on a state-by-state basis and included the District in its calculations, women in the District make 90.4 cents for every dollar a man makes. That’s significantly higher than the national average of 77 cents.
Men gained 535,000 jobs in the manufacturing sector between January 2010 and February, according to a report released last month by the National Women's Law Center. Women actually lost 18,000 jobs over the same period.
They earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar a white man pulls down, according to an April 2012 study conducted by the National Women's Law Center. Minorities take a harder hit, the study states. Black women pocket 62 cents on the dollar, and Hispanic women make a meager 54 cents.
"It will be structured to ramp up the state participation, but it also will recognize that states have had a longstanding role," said Helen Blank, who directs child care and early learning at the National Women's Law Center.
