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Slip-Sliding Away: The Erosion of Hard-Won Gains For Women Under the Bush Administration and an Agenda for Moving Forward

In ways both well-publicized and carefully hidden, glaring and subtle, the Bush Administration is taking steps to roll back women’s progress in every aspect of their lives – their opportunities to succeed at work and in school, their economic security, their health and reproductive rights. This report reviews these policies and others in 10 major areas important to women, and recommends a series of measures the Administration should take to expand and protect women’s rights and opportunities in each.