Reports & Toolkits
Breaking Down Barriers: A Legal Guide to Title IX and Athletic Opportunities
Limited opportunities to participate, fewer scholarship dollars, inferior athletic equipment and facilities: these enduring problems mean that Title IX remains as important as ever to removing the barriers women and girls face in sports.
Women and Health Coverage: A Framework for Moving Forward
Women and Health Coverage: A Framework for Moving Forward evaluates efforts to expand health insurance in terms of their potential to address the particular challenges women face.
Women and Health Coverage: The Affordability Gap
Although men and women have some similar challenges with regard to health insurance, women face unique barriers to becoming insured. More significantly, women have greater difficulty affording health care services even once they are insured. On average, women have lower incomes than men and therefore have greater difficulty paying premiums.Women also are less likely than men to have coverage through their own employer and more likely to obtain coverage through their spouses; are more likely than men to have higher out-of-pocket health care expenses; and use more health care services than men and consequently are in greater need of comprehensive coverage. Proposals for improving health policy need to address these disparities.
Close to Home: State Strategies to Strengthen and Support Family, Friend and Neighbor Care
Increasing Inequality, Increasing Insecurity for Women and Their Families: An Analysis of the President's FY 2008 Budget
This report analyzes the President's FY2008 budget and outlines the prosals that would increase inequality and insecurity for women and families.
Don't Take "No" for an Answer: A Guide to Pharmacy Refusal Laws, Policies and Practices
This guide explores laws, regulations and other authorities that govern the dispensation of prescription medications. State law is the primary source of authority and constitutes the bulk of the discussion here. The resources in this guide can be used to inform a variety of advocacy efforts, primarily to improve state policy or prevent harmful policy from being put into place. This guide is an overview, not an exhaustive study of all existing statutes, cases, and policies.
Women and Medicaid: NWLC Toolkit for Advocates
Medicaid is a critical source of insurance for low-income women. This toolkit includes background information on the Medicaid program and its importance to women's health; information on the significance of Medicaid to minority communities; an explanation of the 2006 federal Medicaid cuts and their impact on key health services, including information on cost-sharing and documentation requirements; detailed analyses of the importance of Medicaid family planning services and the significance of Medicaid family planning waivers as a means of expanding access; and state-specific information on Medicaid and its importance to women.
The Supreme Court and Women's Rights: Gathering Storm Clouds
Hospital Mergers and the Threat to Women's Reproductive Health Choices Report Series
This report series is designed to provide health care advocates and others seeking to preserve access to reproductive health services with an understanding of how to use the nation's laws to challenge proposed hospital mergers that threaten to reduce or eliminate these services.
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