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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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2012 Mid-Year Legislative Wrap-Up

There's no question that 2011 was a truly seismic year for reproductive rights in the U.S. More...
Third Anniversary of the Recovery Shows Job Growth for Women Slowed by Public Sector Job Losses

The deep recession that began in December 2007 and cost nearly 7.5 million jobs was harder on...
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...
State of Public School Sex Segregation in the United States (2007-2010)

In connection with Title IX's 40th Anniversary in June 2012, the Feminist Majority Foundation...
Toward Gender Equality in East Asia and the Pacific

Report from the World Bank.

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Human Rights for Women and People with Disabilities

Kyla Bender-Baird

By Alexandra Mazzeo*Yesterday, The Opportunity Agenda and the U.S. Human Rights Network hosted a telebriefing on two key human rights treaties and...

Ask A Working Woman Survey 2010: Working America and AFL-CIO

jzeilinger@ncrw.org

Working America and the AFL-CIO recently launched the 2010 Ask a Working Woman survey. A similar survey has been done every 2 years, and in...

FAST FACT: A New Way to Rank Women’s Economic Opportunity

Kyla Bender-Baird

By Kyla Bender-BairdLast week, the Economic Intelligence Unit (EIU) launched a new global index and ranking of women’s economic opportunity....

CEDAW FORUM: Lighting a Fire for the Women’s Rights Treaty

Kyla Bender-Baird

By Allie Bohm*As a colleague recently reminded me, our system of government was developed not to pass laws, but to make change slowly. Take, for...

Policy Is About Priority: Where Do Moms Fit in?

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By Rylee Sommers-Flanagan*This post originally appeared on the Health Justice Blog associated with the Health Justice Division of the New York...

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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Court Rules LA Abortion Clinic Can Remain Open

September 22, 2010

Ms. Magazine: Hope Medical Group, an abortion clinic in Shreveport, Louisiana that was recently closed by the Department of Health and Hospitals (DHH) due to violations, has been told that it can reopen until legal proceedings regarding its license...
Burqa Ban Approved by French Senate

September 15, 2010

Ms.: On September 14, the French senate approved a law on a vote of 246 to 1, that banned the burqa, a cover that includes mesh over the fashbanning any veils that cover the face, and the niqab, a full face veil that leaves an opening for the eyes....
7 Mexican women freed in so-called infanticide cases

September 9, 2010

Los Angeles Times: Seven women accused of infanticide--killing a full term born infant were finally released from prison. Human rights advocates believe that the government was attempting to make an example of the women, who induced...
Saudi women raise their voices over male guardianship

September 7, 2010

CNN: Laws in Saudia Arabia restrict every aspect of women's basic rights, stating that women must have permission from their male guardians in order to, among other things, study, travel and work. Women's advocates vocally oppose the laws which...
U.S. Senate committee to hold hearing on rape investigations

September 7, 2010

Baltimore Sun: A hearing before Congress will investigate the disturbing nationwide trend of police ignoring or refusing to investigate rape charges. In many cases, the victim is accused of lying or the case is dropped or not pursued, which allows...

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