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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
Ms. Foundation for Women

Brooklyn, NY
Women's Research and Education Institute

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Government That Looks Like America? Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Financial Regulatory Institutions

Diversity in executive management is low at all agencies when compared to the percentage...
Women, Business, and the Law

Women, Business and the Law is a World Bank report that presents indicators...
Gender Equality and Female Empowerment

Dr. Rajiv Shah, Administrator for the United States Agency for International Development (...
Jumping Beyond the Broom

Fromt he Center for American Progress
Liberty and justice for all is not yet a...
Acosta/Carpenter Women in Intercollegiate Sport A Longitudinal, National Study Thirty-Five Year Update: 1977-2012

In 2012, forty years after the enactment of Title IX, there are an average of 8.73 womenʼs...

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WOMEN’S EQUALITY FORUM: Never having to hear “she’s doing a good job…for a woman” again

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By Aviva Dove-Viebahn*

LGBT Activism: Past, Present, Future

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May 13, 2009 posted by admin With the legalization of same-sex marriage spreading like wildfire in the Northeast and exciting progress on hate...

Enough is Enough—We NEED Fair Pay NOW

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April 28, 2009 posted by Kyla Bender-Baird I post this today, in honor of Fair Pay Day, with a sense of both frustration and hope. I’m...

EQUAL PAY FOR EQUAL WORK!!! Justice for Lilly Ledbetter?

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Posted January 27, 2009 by admin The National Women’s Law Center spoke with Lilly Ledbetter after the Senate passed the Lilly Ledbetter Act....

Blog Post Overturns Wrongful Termination

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January 16, 2009 posted by Linda Basch I wanted to share with you an exciting victory that came across my desk during the holidays. After...

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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Don't call us tomboys now

May 24, 2012

Jelisa Castrodale ponders the word "tomboy" and how, 40 years after the passage of Title IX, it's not familiar to girls today.
Can Suing for Equal Pay Really Close the Gender Wage Gap?

May 24, 2012

Bryce Covert wonders if lawsuits for equal pay really will push the cultural shift needed to make equal pay a reality.
Waitress's Wages Leave Little to Take Home

May 23, 2012

Waitstaff struggle to put food of the table.
Private equity women come out against quotas

May 20, 2012

Speakers at the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association’s inaugural Women in Private Equity Forum have come out largely against hiring quotas as a solution to the lack of women working in the industry.
Army beginning study on sending women soldiers to infantry units, Ranger school

May 17, 2012

The Washington Post reports that Army leaders have begun to study the prospect of sending female soldiers to the service’s prestigious Ranger school — another step in the effort to broaden opportunities for women in the military.
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