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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
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 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

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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...
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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...
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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...

News

  • Enforcing the pregnancy bias law of 1978? Long overdue
    March 8, 2012

    Last month's long overdue hearing by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) revealed that shocking, blatant attacks on working women are going on more than three decades after passage of the 1978 Pregnancy Discrimination Act, which...
  • "Honor killings" require tougher laws, say Iraqi women
    March 7, 2012

     Women's activists in Iraq, led by the only woman in Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's cabinet, Minister of State for Women's Affairs Ibtihal al-Zaidi, are lobbying to change the law.
  • Sounds crazy, but this could be year of the woman
    March 7, 2012

     2012 may be another "year of the woman."
  • E.U. Considers Quotas for Women in Boardrooms
    March 7, 2012

     Frustrated that her previous efforts to get more women into the top echelons of European business have not yielded stronger results, Viviane Reding, the senior justice official in the European Union, was to announce a new effort Monday that...
  • The Economic Impact of the Pill
    March 7, 2012

    The recent controversy over contraception and health insurance has focused on who should pay for the pill. But there is a wealth of economic evidence about the value of the pill – to taxpayers as well as to women in general.