Fact Sheets

Fair Pay for Women in Hawaii Requires Increasing the Minimum Wage and the Tipped Minimum Wage

April 19, 2013

This fact sheet explains how increasing the minimum wage and the tipped minimum wage in Hawaii would especially benefit women and people of color.

President Obama’s Plan for Early Education: Questions & Answers

April 17, 2013

President Obama has proposed a comprehensive plan to increase access to high-quality early learning opportunities for children from birth to age five. Here are answers to some commonly asked questions about the proposal and about early care and education.

Student Non-Discrimination Act

April 17, 2013

This fact sheet explains the Student Non-Discrimination Act and how it would provide protections to students who are or are perceived to be lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer.

How Disparate Impact Theory Has Expanded Employment Opportunities for Women

April 15, 2013

Women’s entry into high-wage, high-skill, nontraditional occupations, such as firefighting, police work or construction, was made possible in large part by challenges to a variety of recruitment, hiring, and promotion practices that adversely affected women and would have otherwise remained unchanged but for the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act “disparate impact” theory of discrimination.  This fact sheet explores how disparate impact theory has expanded employment opportunities for women.

President Obama’s Early Learning Proposal

April 12, 2013

This fact explains the details of President Obama's early learning proposal that would expand high-quality early learning opportunities for children birth to age five.

A Roadmap to the 2013 Federal Budget Debates

April 11, 2013

Here is a look at key provisions of the fiscal cliff deal, the timeline for critical choices that remain before Congress, and the guiding principles that will protect women and their families and promote widely shared prosperity.

Requiring Crisis Pregnancy Centers to Disclose Limits on Care Is Part of a Long Tradition of Protecting Women’s Decision-making and Access to Reproductive Health Care

April 09, 2013

Women face many obstacles to receiving comprehensive, affordable, quality health care, including when individuals and institutions refuse to provide health care services.   Some even go so far as to refuse to inform women about their health care options or even to notify women that there are certain services or information that they will not provide.  This prevents women from participating fully in their own medical decision-making.  Not only are their rights compromised, their health may be harmed.

Strong Public Support Continues for States to Accept Federal Funds to Cover More Uninsured People Through Medicaid

April 09, 2013

A new national survey sponsored by the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families and the National Women’s Law Center shows strong support among adults 18 and older for their states to accept federal dollars that have been allocated to cover more uninsured people through Medicaid.  The survey, conducted March 15-19, 2013 among 1,016 adults 18 and older, has a margin of error of + 4 percentage points.

The 10 Largest Jobs Paying Under $10.10/Hour Are Majority Women

April 05, 2013

Women are the majority of workers in each of the ten largest occupations that typically pay less than $10.10 per hour, and about two-thirds or more of the workers in seven of these occupations. Increasing the minimum wage and tipped minimum wage are key steps toward fair pay for women.

Explaining the Wage Gap

April 04, 2013

Fifty years after the Equal Pay Act was signed into law, women make up nearly half the workforce, but their paychecks still lag far behind men’s. Today the typical American woman who works full time, year round is paid only 77 cents for every dollar paid to her male counterpart. This gap in earnings translates into $11,084 less per year, leaving women and their families shortchanged.  This fact sheet details several important factors that contribute to the wage gap including discrimination; racial disparities; occupational segregation, which includes women’s concentration in low-wage jobs, women’s limited access to higher paying jobs that are nontraditional for women, and the devaluation of women’s work; and women’s greater responsibility for caregiving.