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Urge Your Senators to Co-Sponsor the Paycheck Fairness Act
The Paycheck Fairness Act would deter wage discrimination by closing loopholes in the Equal Pay Act and barring retaliation against workers who disclose their wages to coworkers. In this tough economy, more and more families are counting on women's earnings. Unfair pay practices make things even harder, especially for those families who rely solely on female earnings. Please voice your support.
Ask President Obama to End Retaliatory Pay Secrecy Policies in Federal Contracting
April 17 is Equal Pay Day — the day that a typical woman's wages finally catch up to a typical man's in 2011. Nearly fifty years after President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act, women working full time are paid just 77 cents on the dollar compared to their male counterparts. And the wage gap is far worse for women of color. In recognition of Equal Pay Day, join us in calling on President Obama to end retaliatory pay secrecy policies in federal contracting.
Tell Congress: Make Millionaires and Corporations Pay Their Fair Share
In his State of the Union address, President Obama emphasized a vital point: that unfair, and even counter-productive, tax breaks for corporations and the very wealthy shortchange needed investments for women and their families. Tell your Members of Congress to make millionaires and corporations pay their fair share, to protect vital programs and to create jobs for the millions of struggling Americans who need them.
Tell Congress: Make Sure Girls Get a Fair Chance in Sports
High schools, like colleges, should be required to make information about their sports programs publicly available. Please ask your Members of Congress to support the High School Athletics Accountability Act, H.R. 458, and the High School Data Transparency Act, S. 1269. These two bills would require high schools to report information, broken down by gender, on sports participation and expenditures. Schools are already collecting this information, but since it is not public, parents and students cannot evaluate their athletics programs to make sure that girls are being treated fairly.
Tell Congress that girls and women deserve equal opportunities to be physically active and that communities deserve access to gender equity information about their schools' sports programs.
Tell Your Senators to Vote on All Judicial Nominees
Almost one in ten federal judgeships sits empty, and over one-third of those vacancies are in courts so overburdened that they have been deemed judicial emergencies. When our courts aren't working at full capacity, it takes longer to resolve civil cases. Tell your Senators to get the job done and vote on ALL judicial nominees.
Tell the Senate to Outlaw Discrimination of LGBT Students
Tell your Senators that the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) renewal bill must outlaw discrimination based on sexual orientation. It is essential that ESEA includes the Student Non-Discrimination Act (SNDA), to outlaw discrimination in public K-12 schools based on sexual orientation or gender identity/expression.
Tell Your Senators That School Reform Legislation Must Improve School Climate
As we mark the 39th year of Title IX, the federal law that bans sex discrimination in federally funded education programs, it's important not to forget the many challenges that remain. Right now, the Senate is working on major school reform legislation and we expect to see a bill introduced this summer. Tell your Senators that this bill must include measures to improve school climate.
Urge Your Representative to Support the Fairness in Taxation Act
The Fairness in Taxation Act, H.R. 1124, sponsored by Rep. Jan Schakowsky, is a progressive, responsible tax bill that ensures millionaires and billionaires start paying their fair share of taxes. The current tax code doesn't distinguish between households earning $373,000 and hedge fund managers earning billions of dollars a year. The Fairness in Taxation Act would create new tax brackets for annual income starting above $1 million and ending with $1 billion and up. It also would tax capital gains and dividends at the same rate as income from work for taxpayers with income above $1 million, instead of a much lower tax rate.
Tell Your Senators to Protect Women's Health and Oppose S. 906
Anti-choice Senators have jumped on the House's passage of H.R. 3 by introducing a companion bill in the Senate, S. 906. We can't let this dangerous bill move forward. During the H.R. 3 debate, nearly 40 Representatives spoke out on the House floor to detail the dangers of H.R. 3. Their speeches illustrated how the bill would impose tax increases on millions of individuals and small businesses with insurance plans that cover abortion and harm women's health by erecting barriers designed to prevent women from getting the abortion care they need.
Pledge - Knowledge is Power
Get empowered. Religiously affiliated hospitals often allow religious doctrine, not proven medical best practices, to dictate the kind of care and procedures that women experiencing pregnancy complications can receive. In these hospitals, patient care and medical standards be beholden to religious doctrine and, as a result, women’s health suffers and women’s lives can be at risk.
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Marcia Greenberger to Receive Award
NWLC Co-President Marcia Greenberger has been chosen to receive the 2012 Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award at American Bar Association's annual meeting on Aug. 5 in Chicago. The award honors outstanding women lawyers who have achieved professional excellence and paved the way to success for others, and previous winners include Supreme Court Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.