“Women and men everywhere should call their Congress representatives and urge them to support this bill,” Judy Lichtman, a senior adviser at the National Partnership for Women and Families, told me on the phone. “That would be the most powerful way to celebrate Equal Pay Day.”
The National Partnership for Women & Families just released a study that said the average pay gap for women in Connecticut is $15487 a year. If things were equal, says the …
If the plaintiffs win and are allowed to proceed with the largest class-action lawsuit ever, potentially worth billions of dollars, “it would be an extremely significant victory,” said Sarah Crawford, director of workplace fairness for the National Partnership for Women and Families.
“When women do better, families do better. Yet every day, women across the country are forced to choose between their family’s health and their paychecks because their jobs don’t allow them to earn paid sick days,” said Debra Ness, president of National Partnership for Women & Families.
More flexible workplaces are key to helping working mothers and fathers, said Portia Wu, vice president at the National Partnership for Women & Families, an advocacy group. “That includes …
The comments were organized by the National Partnership for Women & Families, which helps lead both the Consumer Partnership for e-Health and the Campaign for Better Care. They were also signed by …
Debra L. Ness, president of the National Partnership for Women and Families, especially protested the proposed elimination of Title X of the Public Health Service Act, which covers HIV testing, cancer screening, blood-pressure testing, post-partum counseling and contraceptive services for more than 5 million low-income women, two-thirds of them uninsured.
Meanwhile, National Partnership for Women & Families has described the House Republicans’ fiscal 2011 proposal as “catastrophic” for women and working …
“We certainly have allies in the Senate, but I’m too experienced to say this could never [pass],” said Judy Lichtman, a senior adviser at the National Partnership for Women and Families. “Terrible amendments have been introduced to must-pass bills where lots of other things are at stake. To argue that this would never happen would give women and families a false sense of security. With the anti-choice forces in the Senate, I’m very nervous.”
This recommendation is supported by the American Civil Liberties Union, the March of Dimes, Naral Pro-Choice America, the National Partnership for Women and Families, the National Women’s Law Center and scores of Democrats in Congress.
msnbc.com “This is a huge step for women’s equality and average women should weigh in,” said Portia Wu, vice president for the National Partnership for Women & Families. “It’s really really …
Statement of Debra L. Ness, President, National Partnership for Women & Families
Portia Wu is vice president of the National Partnership for Women and Families in Washington, D.C., where she develops and advocates for policies to increase women’s and families’ economic security.
When he moves into the governor’s mansion next month, Connecticut will be poised to become the first state to enact legislation allowing workers to earn paid sick days, according to the National Partnership for Women and Families in Washington, D.C.
“This study has important implications for the nation’s economy,” said Debra Ness, president of the National Partnership for Women and Families. “With unemployment so high and job searches taking so long, greater access to earned paid sick days will help ensure that workers won’t lose their jobs if they get sick or a child needs care.”
Subcommittee on Children and Families: Securing Our Children’s Future through Family-Friendly Public Policies
Debra Ness, president of the National Partnership for Women and Families, has said the bill would be “the perfect bookend” to a Congress that began with the enactment of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which reversed a Supreme Court ruling that gutted pay protections for victims of discrimination.
At the same time, the National Partnership for Women and Families and Family Values @ Work released a report — “Dallas Workers Speak” — outlining how employees “satisfaction correlates with a positive workplace culture that embraces flexibility and fosters trust.”
The National Partnership for Women and Families found that in Massachusetts, a typical woman working full time is paid $43,452 a year, while a similar man is paid $55,555, creating a wage gap of $12,103.
According to the National Partnership for Women and Families, about 55 percent of U.S. workers don’t have paid sick days.