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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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New York, NY
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Brooklyn, NY
Women's Research and Education Institute

Washington, DC

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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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(Report) A First Look Back at the 2010 State Legislative Session

September 5, 2010

Center for Reproductive Rights: A look back at statistics from the 2010 legislative session demonstrates the myriad of ways that abortion and other reproductive freedoms have been limited over the past year.
Women get equal rights in guardianship, adoption of children

September 1, 2010

The Times of India: Amendments to two laws governing adoption and guardianship now allow women to have equal rights. A mother and a father can now both be appointed as guardians of adopted children, and married women who are separated from their...
Wal-Mart wants women's pay class-action suit thrown out

August 26, 2010

USA Today: Wal-Mart is facing a class action lawsuit stemming from charges that it pays women less than men, and that women have fewer opportunities and wait longer for promotions.
U.S. sues West Palm abortion protester

August 23, 2010

Palm Beach Post: The U.S. Department of Justice is suing an anti-abortion protester in Florida, using a law called the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, or FACE. FACE is designed specifically to prevent protesters from interfering with...
New Law Allows Sex Trafficking Victims to Clear Names

August 16, 2010

NY Times: A new law will give victims of sex trafficking a second chance by clearing prostitution convictions from their records. Often the victims of violent crime, and sexual assault, many girls and women are forced into prostitution against their...

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