Reports & Toolkits

NWLC and the Rebecca Project for Human Rights released the Mothers Behind Bars report, which explores the egregious practice of shackling women during childbirth and other important issues affecting pregnant and parenting women—the vast majority of whom are non-violent, first-time offenders. In the report, each state is graded on whether it has adequate policies—or any policies at all—on prenatal care, shackling, and family-based drug treatment as an alternative to incarceration.

A national opinion survey conducted for the National Women's Law Center (NWLC) demonstrates that Americans strongly believe that health insurance should include women's reproductive health services and that medical experts -- not politicians -- should decide the details of a benefits package.

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.