Fact Sheets

Fair Pay for Women and People of Color in Maryland Requires Increasing the Minimum Wage and the Tipped Minimum Wage

February 15, 2013

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

Child Care: A Core Support to Children and Families

February 12, 2013

This fact sheet offers an overview of the importance of child care assistance for children and families.

Fair Pay for Women and People of Color in Connecticut Requires Increasing the Minimum Wage

February 08, 2013

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

A Higher Minimum Wage Would Benefit Working Women, Their Families and All New Jerseyans

February 06, 2013

This fact sheet, produced by NWLC and the Rutgers Center for Women and Work, explains how an increase in the minimum wage and tipped minimum wage would benefit women and their families, help close the wage gap between women and men's earnings, and boost New Jersey's economy.

Contraceptive Coverage in the Health Care Law: Frequently Asked Questions

February 01, 2013

The health care law makes preventive care more accessible and affordable to millions of Americans. This is especially important to women, who are more likely than men to avoid needed health care, including preventive care, because of cost. To help address these cost barriers and make sure all women have access to preventive health care, one section of the health care law requires all new and non-grandfathered private insurance plans to cover a wide range of preventive services, including services such as mammograms, pap smears, smoking prevention and contraceptives without co-payments or other cost sharing requirements.

Coverage of the Women’s Preventive Health Services: Calling Your Student Health Plan

February 01, 2013

We’ve updated our materials on calling your insurance plan. Please visit this page.

Women’s Preventive Services in the Affordable Care Act: Frequently Asked Questions

February 01, 2013

The health care law makes preventive care more accessible and affordable to millions of Americans. This is especially important to women, who are more likely than men to go without necessary health care, including preventive care, because of cost. To help address these cost barriers and make sure all women have access to preventive health care, the health care law requires all new and non-grandfathered private insurance plans to cover a wide range of preventive services without co-payments or other cost sharing requirements.

Sex Stereotypes: How They Hurt Women in the Workplace - and the Wallet

January 30, 2013

Today, women who work full time, year round are paid only 77 cents on average for every dollar paid to their male counterparts.  That’s shortchanging women and their families more than 10,000 dollars per year.  This wage gap—which hasn’t changed in a decade —occurs in part because of outdated stereotypes about women and their “proper” place in society and in the workforce. This fact sheet explains how these stereotypes contribute to women receiving lower pay for the same work, fewer promotions, fewer opportunities for advancement at work, fewer workforce training opportunities for higher-paying jobs, and being concentrated in low-paying positions in traditionally female fields. 

Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act

January 29, 2013

Women today are paid, on average, only 77 cents for every dollar paid to men. And the gap is even worse for women of color - African American women earn only 64 cents and Latina women earn only 55 cents for each dollar earned by males. To help address this unfair and unacceptable wage gap, President Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act on January 29, 2009,1 restoring the protection against pay discrimination that was stripped away by the Supreme Court’s decision in Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. This fact sheet further explains the legislative fix offered by the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009.

Health Care Refusals Harm Patients: The Threat to Reproductive Health Care

January 25, 2013

Across the nation, the personal beliefs of individuals and institutions are interfering with patients’ access to health care.