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Slip-Sliding Away: The Erosion of Hard-Won Gains For Women Under the Bush Administration and an Agenda for Moving Forward

April 01, 2004

In ways both well-publicized and carefully hidden, glaring and subtle, the Bush Administration is taking steps to roll back women’s progress in every aspect of their lives – their opportunities to succeed at work and in school, their economic security, their health and reproductive rights. This report reviews these policies and others in 10 major areas important to women, and recommends a series of measures the Administration should take to expand and protect women’s rights and opportunities in each.

Keeping Score: Girls' Participation in High School Athletics in Massachusetts

February 15, 2004
Keeping Score, a joint project of the National Women's Law Center and the Harvard School of Public Health, explores the persistent discrimination that girls in Massachusetts high schools face in sports participation opportunities and treatment of their teams. The Reports & Toolkits finds that girls in Massachusetts consistently lag behind boys in their participation in physical activity, depriving them of the health, social and emotional benefits of playing sports, and that girls of color fare even worse. Keeping Score calls for strengthened enforcement of federal and state gender discrimination laws; assistance to schools to enable them to achieve gender equity public education about the importance of sports participation; and partnerships between public health professionals and gender equity advocates to address barriers and promote girls' participation in physical activity.

Women and Smoking: A National and State-by-State Report Card

September 15, 2003

 

Women and Smoking: A National and State-by-State Report Card is the first comprehensive assessment of women's smoking-related health conditions and policies that are proven to help reduce smoking among women and girls. The Women and Smoking Report Card provides and evaluates data, by state and for the nation as a whole, on selected health status and health policy indicators related to smoking, major smoking-related diseases, and access to cessation services among women and girls.