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Inside the next legal battle over race in college admissions

MAR 30, 2026

But some Title IX advocates are concerned about what could happen to women’s sports if the department were to do away with the policy interpretation. It has been critical for showing schools how to effectively...

Women farmworkers who built their own fight against sexual assault cope with Chavez allegations

MAR 27, 2026

The “Dear Sisters” letter, as it is known, and the longstanding efforts by women-led farmworker groups, were a key driver behind the TIME’S UP Legal Defense Fund, which provides legal aid to low-income women who...

Día de la Igualdad Salarial: Latinas en EE.UU. siguen teniendo la brecha salarial más profunda y persistente del país

MAR 27, 2026

De acuerdo con un informe presentado por el Centro Nacional de Derecho de la Mujer, donde se analiza la creciente disparidad salarial, indicó que las latinas en EE.UU. que comienzan hoy día a introducirse al...

Girls Will Never Have Funds? For the 2nd Year in a Row, Equal Pay Day Got Pushed Back!

MAR 26, 2026

“Women are falling further behind,” Sarah Javaid, a senior research analyst at the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC), told Jezebel, while emphasizing how the current gap isn’t because women are making less—it’s because women’s wages are staying stagnant...

Equal Pay Day 2026: The ‘Bonus Gap’ And More Wage Gap Contributors

MAR 26, 2026

That’s nearly an extra three months of work, and translates to $13,570 less per year, according to the National Women’s Law Center. The wage gap widens for mothers and women of color....The wage gap is...

White House applauds ban on transgender women in women’s Olympic events

MAR 26, 2026

The National Women’s Law Center, a group that opposed Trump’s executive order, on Thursday condemned the IOC’s decision, saying that the committee is “embracing a policy that invites confusion, stigma, and invasive scrutiny rather than...

US health department investigates 13 states that require insurance plans to cover abortion

MAR 20, 2026

Katie O’Connor, the senior director of federal abortion policy at the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC), released a statement this week condemning the investigations: “President Trump’s claim that he wants to ‘leave abortion to the...

Saving America by Encouraging More Babies and ‘Natural Families’

MAR 19, 2026

In essence, rather than ease the burdens of child rearing with improved social programs, the HF report does the opposite... Emily Martin, the National Women’s Law Center’s chief program officer, puts it this way: “The...

HHS investigates 13 states that require insurance plans to cover abortion

MAR 19, 2026

Katie O’Connor, senior director of federal abortion policy at the National Women’s Law Center, said that the Trump administration is “weaponizing” the law “to rip away affordable abortion care from people and to punish states...

Reigniting the Patriarchy

MAR 13, 2026

Sydney Petersen, a spokesperson for the Washington, D.C.-based National Women’s Law Center, stresses the urgency of monitoring this and other legislation as bills move through the states. “Legislation at the state level moves quickly, and harmful...