Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

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Reports & Publications

Effective_Philanthropy

Monday, July 13, 2009 - 11:30am

Ensuring Equal Opportunity in Our Nation's Economic Recovery Efforts

Friday, July 30, 2010 - 12:15pm

Member Organizations

Center for Gender in Organizations

Simmons School of Management

Boston, MA
Center for the Education of Women

University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, MI
Center for Women in Government & Civil Society

University at Albany, SUNY

Albany, NY
The Feminist Majority Foundation

Arlington, VA
Legal Momentum

New York, NY
Wellesley Centers for Women

Wellesley College

Wellesley, MA

Resources

Oceans Apart: The Higher Health Costs of Women in the U.S. Compared to Other Nations, and How Reform Is Helping

An estimated 18.7 million U.S. women ages 19 to 64 were uninsured in 2010, up from 12.8 million...
Toward Gender Equality in East Asia and the Pacific

Report from the World Bank.
A Pregnancy Test for Schools: The Impact of Education Laws on Pregnant and Parenting Students

Parenthood is not the end of the road for teen moms. Quite to the contrary, motherhood can...
The Equal Employment Opportunity Restoration Act of 2012: What it Means for Women Workers

Last year, in Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes, a deeply divided Supreme Court voted 5-4 to erect...
Name It. Change It.

Name It. Change It. is a non-partisan project of WCF Foundation, Women’s Media Center, and...

Blog Posts

No Reward, Therefore Not Worth the Risk: Why LGBTQ in the Military Are Still Not Coming Out

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Prior to the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) in 2011, an estimated 48,500 lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals...

Looking to Women in America for Solutions

Kate Meyer

*By Kate MeyerLast week Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisor to President Obama and Chair of the White House Council on Women and Girls, and Preeta Bansal...

Anti-Union Efforts and Wisconsin's Women Workers

Kate Meyer

By Kate Meyer*

An Inventive Tribute to International Women's Day

Kyla Bender-Baird

By Teresa BagleyFeminism shouldn't be exclusive to scholars, advocates, researchers and policy wonks. Women's issues affect all of us, and this is an...

Breitbart: Thuggery and Orwell Revisited

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Member Experts

Miriam Yeung

Miriam W. Yeung is Executive Director of the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum (NAPAWF). She guides the country’s only national, multi-...

Pamela Shifman

Since May 2008, Pamela Shifman has served as the Director of Initiatives for Women and Girls at the NoVo Foundation, where she directs its work on...

Juhu Thukral

Juhu Thukral is the Director of Law and Advocacy at The Opportunity Agenda. She has been an advocate for the rights of low-income and immigrant women...

Kyla Bender-Baird

Kyla Bender-Baird, Research and Programs Manager, is providing the Council with a wide range of research and communications support. She received a...

Silvia Henriquez

Silvia Henriquez is responsible for the overall management, fundraising and administration of the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health....

Lisa McClain

Dr. Lisa McClain is an Associate Professor of History and the Director of Gender Studies at Boise State University. She researches the issue of...

News

Sierra Leone court backs woman chief bid

March 16, 2010

A judge in Sierra Leone has ruled for the first time that a woman's bid to become a paramount chief is lawful. Women's rights activists hailed the ruling as a landmark decision and vowed to fight similar bans in other regions.
Egypt Supreme Court Backs Women Judges

March 16, 2010

Egypt's Constitutional Court backed the right of women judges to sit on the bench in the state's administrative courts, despite opposition from conservatives.

The ruling follows a dispute within the State Council, the top administrative...
French Parliament to Vote on Burqa Ban

March 15, 2010

The French parliament is to vote on a proposal to ban the face covering known as the niqab or burqa. BBC Wales reporter Selma Chalabi looks at what is happening in France and finds out how Muslims in Wales are responding.
TV industry a hostile place for working mothers, survey finds

March 15, 2010

The television industry sector remains riddled with sexist attitudes and is uncongenial to working mothers, a survey published today suggests.
Fifty-five per cent of the 179 TV workers interviewed for the survey said it is difficult to get back...
Hillary Clinton Speaks About Equality for the World's Women & Girls

March 12, 2010

In a speech Friday at the UN in New York, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton identified equality for the world’s women and girls as the central challenge that will determine the peace and progress of the 21st century.

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NCRW is a network of leading university and community based research, policy, and advocacy centers with a growing global reach dedicated to advancing rights and opportunities for women and girls. We also have a Corporate Circle comprised of senior diversity professionals from leading U.S. and global member companies and a Presidents Circle of college and university leaders who share our commitment. NCRW harnesses the collective power of its network to provide knowledge, analysis, and thought leadership on issues ranging from reducing women’s poverty to building a critical mass of women’s leadership across sectors.