Reports & Toolkits
Tools of the Trade: Using the Law to Address Sex Segregation in High School Career and Technical Education
These Toolkits provide a customized roadmap for girls, their parents and advocates, educational professionals and state personnel to apply their laws to improve opportunities for girls to participate in nontraditional training.
In Their Own Voices, Parents and Providers Struggling with Child Care Cuts
Power to the People: The Effectiveness of Ballot Measures in Advancing Early Care and Education
Power to the People: The Effectiveness of Ballot Measures in Advancing Early Care and Education: Executive Summary
The Record of John Roberts on Critical Legal Rights for Women
The National Women's Law Center conducted an extensive review of John Roberts’s public record, concluding that it reflects an approach to the law that limits and narrows women’s core constitutional and statutory protections in three critical areas: the constitutional right to privacy; constitutional and statutory protections against sex discrimination; and the power of Congress to protect
Ask! Will Your Health Care Providers Follow Your End-of-Life Wishes?
What if you create an advance directive specifying your end-of-life wishes, only to have a health care institution or provider refuse to honor it? Unfortunately, more and more often, the religious and ethical beliefs of certain health care providers are limiting the public’s desired end-of-life care. In some states, these refusals are even protected by law. But you are not without rights. Arming yourself with information will help ensure that you get the end-of-life care you want.
Be All That We Can Be: Lessons from the Military for Improving Our Nation's Child Care System: 2004 Follow-Up
Social Security: Women, Children and the States
Social Security provides crucial protections for women and their children, not only in retirement, but throughout the lifespan. Women rely more on Social Security for their retirement income than do men. In addition, women are much more likely than men to receive Social Security benefits as family members when a worker dies, retires or becomes disabled.
The Supreme Court and Women's Rights: Fundamental Protections Hanging in the Balance
Key recent cases with an impact on women's rights were decided by narrow, often one-vote margins, over vigorous dissents. Therefore, one new Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court who does not support women's rights could mean dramatic erosion in protections for these rights. On the other hand, one new Justice who supports women's rights could restore, or prevent further erosion of rights that have been lost in the last few years. The cases decided in the last few terms underscore how critically important the votes of one new Justice will be to the rights and well-being of American women and their families.
Making the Grade on Women's Health: Advisory Committee
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