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Workplace Sexual Harassment Poll Finds Large Share Of Workers Suffer, Don't Report

August 27, 2013

Indeed, while the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission received about 7,500 charges of workplace sexual harassment in 2012 -- a number that has been fairly stagnant over the past few years -- the actual number of people who have experienced sexual harassment at work is likely much higher, according to Fatima Goss Graves, the vice president for education and employment at the National Women’s

Huffington Post

Chief Health Officers, Women, Are In Pain

August 26, 2013

Higher health costs. Women bear greater health insurance costs than men, as calculated by the National Women's Law Center in 2012. This is one of the key rationales underneath the Affordable Care Act: to ensure that women aren't discriminated by health insurance pricing practices that have been common in the industry.

Huffington Post

Bare Bones Health Plans Expected To Survive Health Law

August 25, 2013

Some  businesses are also betting that few workers will go to the government-run marketplaces to seek subsidized coverage, opting instead for the skinny plan “which costs less than the penalty,” said Dania Palanker, senior counsel for the National Women's Law Center in Washington, D.C.
Kaiser Health News

Waking life

August 24, 2013

The dissolution of the black family may do more harm to black mobility than any other single factor. Marriage is declining and out-of-wedlock births are increasing across American society. Black Americans lead the way in both. In 2011 72% of black babies were born to unwed mothers, and just 29% of black adults were married, compared with 60% in 1960.

The Economist

VMI admits it didn't follow protocol in response to sexual assault allegation

August 23, 2013

“This is not unique to VMI,” said Nancy Campbell, co-executive director of the National Women’s Law Center. “It’s a problem that’s very much the case at the military academies and to some extent in colleges and universities.”
The Roanoke Times

Other Voices: Big trees in Black Hills and Title XI in Sioux Falls

August 23, 2013

When the National Women’s Law Center filed complaints in 2010 against the district and 11 other U.S. public school districts, data showed that in 2006, 50 percent of the student population in Sioux Falls was female, but only 35 percent of the district’s athletes were girls.
Aberdeen News

Todd Akin, come back! We miss you!

August 22, 2013

Since January of this year, the overwhelming majority of abortion provisions introduced into state legislatures — 86 percent — apply to women who become pregnant as a result of rape. According to a report by the National Women’s Law Center, of the 273 anti-abortion state provisions surveyed, 235 lacked exceptions for rape survivors.

Salon

Is Pregnancy By Rape Different From Pregnancy by Mistake? Not When It Comes to Judging Women

August 22, 2013

The National Women’s Law Center just released a report detailing the frightening relationship between Republican efforts to deny abortion access and survivors of rape and sexual assault. According to the report, in 2013 state governing bodies have introduced a record number of provisions to restrict abortion access, of which a staggering 86% apply to rape survivors.

Fem 2.0

The Broken Water Ceiling

August 22, 2013

Indeed, the debate that Batista is re-igniting in politics still rages with a daily vengeance in workplaces across America. Today, almost two-thirds of first-time mothers work while pregnant—versus less than half in the 1960s. And almost 90 percent stay on the job during the last two months of pregnancy.

The Daily Beast

Equal pay advocate Lilly Ledbetter to give lecture at the University of Michigan

August 22, 2013

In 2010, the typical woman in Michigan working full-time, year-round, was paid $0.74 for every dollar paid to a man working full-time, year-round. This is $0.03 wider than the nationwide wage gap of $0.77, according to the National Women's Law Center.
AnnArbor.com