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Support the Pregnant and Parenting Students Access to Education Act
Only about one-half of teen mothers earn a high school diploma by age 22, compared to 89% of their peers who do not become parents as teens. Nearly 3 in 10 girls in the U.S. get pregnant at least once before age 20. Please improve the odds for teen mothers by asking your Members of Congress to co-sponsor the Pregnant and Parenting Student Access to Education Act.
Thank President Obama for His Early Childhood Education Initiative
An historic investment in early childhood education moved a step closer to reality when President Obama announced the details of his budget. Please join us in thanking President Obama for his early childhood education initiative.
Tell President Obama: End Retaliatory Pay Secrecy Policies Among Federal Contractors
Equal Pay Day, April 9 in 2013, represents the day that the average woman's wages finally catch up to the average man's earnings from the year before. Thank the President for his leadership on fair pay and ask him to take the next step by signing an executive order on equal pay.
National Women's Law Center's 2013 Awards Dinner
Date and Time: Wednesday, November 20, 2013
6:00 p.m. reception, 7:00 p.m. dinner and program
Location: Washington Hilton & Towers
1919 Connecticut Avenue NW
Washington, D.C.
The Center's annual dinner is one of the largest in Washington and attracts a crowd of over 1,400 policy makers and leaders from the women's, civil rights, corporate and legal communities. We are planning another incredible program to celebrate over 40 years of improving the lives of women and their families. Please join us!
Tell Congress: Make Sure Girls Get a Fair Chance in Sports
Girls across the country are still not getting equal opportunities to play sports or equal treatment when they do play. High schools provide girls with 1.3 million fewer opportunities to play sports as compared to boys. And girls often are assigned inferior facilities and game times, among other things. To make matters worse, when parents and students try to find out how their schools are allocating valuable athletic opportunities and resources, they are not able to get information. Please ask your Members of Congress to support the High School Data Transparency Act, H.R. 455 & S. 217.
Tell State Policymakers to End the Attacks on Access to Reproductive Health Care
January 22 marks the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade — the landmark Supreme Court decision that affirmed a woman's right to a safe and legal abortion. Tell your state policymakers to end the attacks on access to reproductive health care and to ensure that the rights affirmed by Roe v. Wade are around for generations.
Tell Your Members of Congress to Co-sponsor the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act
Courts have created a pregnancy loophole that allows many employers to refuse to accommodate even simple requests to help workers maintain healthy pregnancies. Pregnant women have been fired because they asked to avoid heavy lifting, or to stay off ladders, or to sit on a stool instead of standing at a cash register all day. Please tell your Members of Congress to co-sponsor the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act.
Urge Your Members of Congress to Pass 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.
Submitting Comments to the Department of Labor
The Department of Labor is currently considering creating a new compensation data tool that would make it easier to enforce laws that prohibit pay discrimination. Since 2006, the federal government has had NO tool to effectively monitor wage discrimination based on race, national origin and gender by private employers. This means that our tax dollars could possibly be going to federal contractors who are not paying women fairly. It's time to take a stand. Raise your voice: tell the Department of Labor to move us forward and collect wage data.
To Submit Comments, please follow these instructions.
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Share Your Story - Health Care Providers & Pregnancy Complications
A growing body of evidence shows that some Catholic hospitals are interfering with providers' ability to give prompt treatment to women with miscarriages or ectopic pregnancies according to the medical standard of care. The purpose of the National Women’s Law Center's survey is to identify medical providers who have been required to alter their preferred course of treatment because of their hospital's policies or practices. We are also interested in identifying providers who may have treated patients who had been denied treatment at another hospital.
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