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1. Economic Security 2. Education 3. Health 4. Immigration 5. Violence

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Reinvesting in Women and Families: Developing an Economy for the Future (Summit October 2010)

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NCRW Fact Sheet: Increasing Student Aid—Making Higher Education Accessible to Women and Low-Income Students

As wages continue to stagnate and tuition costs rise, college education has become out of reach for...
NCRW Background Paper: Reinvesting in Women and Families

Based on available research, it is clear that while the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has...
NCRW Fact Sheet: Welfare Reform and Education

The Welfare Reform Act of 1996 pushed many poor women into jobs but without sufficient training or...
NCRW Policy Brief: Education

Despite gains in educational achievement for women and girls over the last decade, the gap...
NCRW Fact Sheet: Women and Educational Disparities--A Call to Action

Today, women are more likely than men to attend college after high school, and are as likely to...

News

College-Educated Women And Marriage: No Longer Risk Being "Old Maids"

April 13, 2012

The Huffington Post reports on a new study by NYU sociologists that finds that college-educated women are no less likely to get married than women without a college degree.
Serial Career Changer Barbie Now Running For President

April 9, 2012

Barbie is running for President.
Nannies Making Six-figures? What Childcare Workers Really Take Home

April 3, 2012

Bryce Covert examines disparities in reported child care salaries.
Champion® Athleticwear Celebrates 40th Anniversary of Title IX with Women’s Sports Foundation Board Chair and Olympic Athlete Benita Fitzgerald Mosley

April 1, 2012

The 1970s ushered in two significant milestones in the evolution of women’s fitness -- the passage of Title IX legislation in 1972 and the invention of the sports bra. In celebration of the 40th anniversary of Title IX, Champion...
Title IX: 37 words that changed everything

March 26, 2012

It's just 37 words, 37 plain and grammatically clunky words hiding inside a large education bill, 37 words that didn't seem to be a big deal at the time, 37 words that would change everything.

Member Organizations

National Coalition of Girls' Schools

Belmont, MA
National Women's Law Center

Washington, DC
National Women's Studies Association

University of Maryland, College Park

College Park, MD
New York University

Women of Color Policy Network

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Program on the Status of Education and Women (PSEW)

Association of American Colleges & Universities

Washington, DC
Southwest Institute for Research on Women

University of Arizona

Tucson, AZ

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Access & Disparities
Diversity & Inclusion
Early Childhood
Educational Leadership of Women & People of Color
Higher Education
International Education
K-12
Title IX
Women's, Gender & Feminist Studies

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Keeping Women on the Economic Agenda

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Last night I attended a dynamic panel hosted by Legal Momentum on Women’s Economic Equality: The Next Frontier in Women’s Rights. The brilliant panelists duked it out,...

Monday, April 13, 2009 - 2:55pm

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Women Leaders Across Sectors on Social Justice and Change

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March 3, 2009 posted by Deborah Siegel I’m sitting in a very crowded auditorium at 3 World Financial Center, home of American Express, and the sun is pouring in on one of the coldest days...

Wednesday, March 4, 2009 - 4:38pm

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GIRLS FORUM: Round-Up

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February 13, 2009 posted by Linda Basch Last week we reached out to advocates and scholars working on issues affecting girls’ lives to submit their Girls Agenda 2009: More funding for teen...

Tuesday, February 17, 2009 - 2:06pm

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GIRLS FORUM: Lyn Mikel Brown Counters the “Mean Girl” Onslaught with Strength-Based Programs

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February 5, 2009 posted by admin As someone who studies girl culture and as a mother of a 13 year old, I can't miss the avalanche of "mean girls" in the media and what it suggests to my...

Thursday, February 5, 2009 - 5:56pm

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GIRLS FORUM: Dear Arne Duncan—Not Everyone Learns the Same Way!

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Februrary 5, 2009 posted by admin Dear Arne Duncan, My school is a Leonard Bernstein school, which means that we do way more than read textbooks to learn. I am linguistic or word smart, but many of...

Thursday, February 5, 2009 - 2:20pm

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Reports & Publications

Effective_Philanthropy

Monday, July 13, 2009 - 11:30am

THE GIRLS REPORT: What We Know & Need to Know About Growing Up Female

Monday, July 13, 2009 - 11:29am

Balancing the Equation: Where are Women and Girls in Science, Engineering, and Technology?

Monday, July 13, 2009 - 11:26am

How the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Addresses Women's Needs

Thursday, July 29, 2010 - 3:31pm

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