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NCRW Fact Sheet: Keeping the Doors of Opportunity Open--Women, Minorities and Affirmative Action

Women and girls have made enormous strides since passage of the Educational Amendments and Title IX...

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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...
Trafficking in Persons Report 2012

The Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report is the U.S. Government’s principal diplomatic tool...
Desiring Change

Desire and gender are brought alive through the ways lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered,...
Let Me Not Die Before My Time: Domestic Violence In West Africa

A report from the International Rescue Committee (IRC) finds that in countries recovering...

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CEDAW FORUM: There’s No Time Like the Present

Kyla Bender-Baird

The United States remains one of only seven countries that have not ratified CEDAW (the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination...

CEDAW FORUM: The U.S. Needs a Human Rights Treaty for Women Domestically

Kyla Bender-Baird

By Margot Baruch* Before CEDAW there was no international legal mechanism in place that called on states to assess gender inequalities in their...

CEDAW FORUM: The Unfinished Business of Ratification

Kyla Bender-Baird

By Linda Tarr-Whelan*NCRW asked leading research and policy expert Linda Tarr-Whelan to weigh in on the status of CEDAW. In addition to her responses...

CEDAW Forum: Time to Make History With CEDAW

Kyla Bender-Baird

By Don Kraus*The bumper sticker on my wife’s car reads, “Well-behaved women seldom make history!” I believe proponents of CEDAW,...

Seriously, are Employment Protections that Threatening?

Kyla Bender-Baird

By Kyla Bender-Baird

Member Experts

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...

Lesley E. Orloff

Leslye E. Orloff is vice president and director of Legal Momentum's Immigrant Women Program. She joined Legal Momentum's Washington, D.C. office in...

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10 Countries With Huge Gender Gaps In The Workplace: Survey

July 9, 2012

According to recent data from Gallup, a quarter of countries struggle with a wide gender gap in the workplace.
Did John Roberts Accidentally Save Planned Parenthood?

July 9, 2012

By rewriting the rules that govern which strings the federal government can attach to its spending on the state level, Chief Justice John Roberts may have inadvertently prevented a future Tea Party-dominated Congress from executing one of its top...
Paycheck Fairness and Market Failure

June 25, 2012

Nancy Folbre recaps the complexity of paycheck disparities.
President Obama Reflects on the Impact of Title IX

June 25, 2012

On the 40th anniversary of the law that ended gender discrimination in schools, President Barack Obama reflects on how Title IX shaped a generation of strong women.
What's At Stake For Women If SCOTUS Overturns The Health Law

June 23, 2012

Kaiser Health News looks at what women would lose if the health care law is overturned by the Supreme Court.

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