Reports & Toolkits
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.
Separation of Church and Hospital: Strategies to Protect Pro-Choice Physicians in Religiously Affiliated Hospitals
June 09, 2003
Minority Views on the Reports & Toolkits of the Commission on Opportunity in Athletics
February 15, 2003
Minority Views on the Reports & Toolkits of the Commission on Opportunity in Athletics: Executive Summary
February 15, 2003
Sexual Harassment of Women in the Military
October 30, 2002
Following the widely publicized Tailhook incident, in which 26 women reported being sexually assaulted at a September 1991 gathering of Navy aviators, sexual harassment of military women has received significant attention. However, the problem of widespread sexual harassment in the military was not new, either to women in uniform of to Pentagon officials responsible for addressing it. This paper describes the extent of sexual harassment in the Armed Forces, and suggests reasons behind the problem, including laws restricting assignability of women and an inadequate system for redressing sexual harassment complaints. It also proposes reforms to reduce this form of sex discrimination in the military.
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