Reports & Toolkits

Unions have begun organizing home-based child care providers, both regulated family child care providers and “family, friend, and neighbor” care providers receiving public funds, with the goal of improving provider working conditions, increasing their compensation, and strengthening the quality of child care they offer.  Gains have included higher payment rates, increased access to health

President Obama’s Fiscal Year 2011 budget supports vital programs for women and children in an economic climate that demands exactly that. With unemployment projected to average 9.5 percent in 2011 and nearly one half of single-mother families expected to be poor, help is needed to create jobs and provide support for women and their families. 

The National Women's Law Center's 2009 report, Still Nowhere to Turn: Insurance Companies Treat Women Like a Pre-Existing Condition, provides sobering new data about the inequities that women face in health insurance.

The extent of gender rating, in which insurance companies charge women more than men for the same coverage, has remained abysmal since the Center issued its landmark report in 2008, Nowhere to Turn: How the Individual Health Insurance Market Fails Women.

To help keep girls in school and on track for success, the National Women’s Law Center and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund went straight to the source: Latina students and the adults who work with them every day. Our report, Listening to Latinas: Barriers to High School Graduation, explores the causes of the dropout crisis for Latinas and identifies the actions needed to improve their graduation rates and get them ready for college.