Reports & Toolkits

Making the Grade on Women's Health: A National and State-by-State Report Card: Executive Summary

August 15, 2000

Family Ties: Improving Paternity Establishment Practices and Procedures for Low-Income Mothers, Fathers and Children

June 09, 2000

Family Ties is the first in a series of reports from the Common Ground Project, a unique collaboration between the National Women's Law Center and the Center on Fathers, Families and Public Policy. It presents policy recommendations on paternity establishment that are more responsive to the diverse and complex circumstances of low-income mothers, fathers and children.

Putting the Law on Your Side: A Guide for Women and Girls to Equal Opportunity in Career Education and Job Training

March 15, 2000
For girls in middle or high school, or women in post-secondary or job training programs, this publication explains the laws that apply to career education and offers advice about how to deal with sex discrimination in such programs.

Putting the Law on Your Side: A Guide for Women and Girls to Equal Opportunity in Career Education and Job Training

March 01, 2000

Righting the Wrongs: Supreme Court Update

July 15, 1998

This factsheet summarizes three of the Supreme Court’s cases involving sexual harassment under Title IX (education) and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (employment).  In Gesber v. Lago Vista Independent School District, the Court addressed the issue of when a school district can be held liable for compensatory damages under Title IX, and in Faragher v. City of Boca Raton and Burlington Industries v. Ellerth, the Court clarified the standard of employer liability under Title VII for supervisor-to-employee harassment. 

When a Kiss Isn't Just A Kiss: Title IX and Student-to-Student Harassment

June 09, 1997

This article discusses peer hostile environment sexual harassment.  It examines the circuit court caselaw on the issue and the legislative history of Title IX, provides an overview of the Supreme Court precedent interpreting Title IX, outlines the Department of Education’s interpretation of Title IX’s requirements concerning peer hostile environment sexual harassment, and discusses analogous legal principles underlying the analysis of student-to-student hostile environment sexual harassment.

Recommendations of the Presidential Commission on the Assignment of Women in the Armed Forces Regarding Parents in Military Service

November 14, 1992

Women in Combat

October 30, 1992