Reports & Toolkits

The National Women's Law Center conducted an extensive review of the publicly available record, concluding  that Judge Samuel Alito's confirmation to the Supreme Court could lead to the endangerment of core legal rights for women, with profound and harmful consequences for women across the country and for decades to come.

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.

As states cut funding for child care and early education programs, many advocates for children have taken their case directly to voters. This Reports & Toolkits from the National Women's Law Center finds that voters are often willing to fund services that their elected officials have not always made a priority. Analyzing most of the measures that appeared on the ballot through 2003 in which increased investment in early care and education or after-school programs was the central or a significant component, the Reports & Toolkits concludes that ballot measures can be a useful tool for securing and stabilizing increased funding for early education, child care and after-school programs.

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