“Jessica Mason, a senior policy analyst with the National Partnership for Women & Families, said the program is a net win for families, especially during uncertain budget times. ‘These days, folks are really watching our dollars, so it’s important to feel like everything we’re making investments in is really worth it — and the evidence is really clear that paid leave is one of those things.'”
“For instance, this spring the National Partnership for Women & Families published a series of blog posts highlighting the lifesaving impact of Medicaid on not only the authors but also their loved ones.”
“’We have an opportunity right now,’ said forum moderator Taryn Mackenzie Williams, Senior Fellow for Disability at the National Partnership for Women & Families. ‘We are compelled to reimagine what it means to meet the promise of the ADA … we need to reckon with the reality of those systems.’”
“Jocelyn Frye is the president of the National Partnership for Women and Families. She grew up in Washington, D.C., and her journey has taken her to so many amazing places.”
“When you look at the history of how Black people made it into the middle class, some of those stepping stones are the very things that this administration is trying desperately to erode: access to education, access to federal work, workforce opportunities,” Jocelyn Frye, president of the National Partnership for Women & Families, tells Women Rule. “Those things were foundational for a lot of Black workers, in part because the private sector was more resistant. We had this deep, entrenched history that shut Black workers out.”
“The lack of access extends beyond small businesses to include workers in the construction fields. Women workers, particularly women of color, face ‘significant obstacles to economic security in large part due to racism, sexism, and discrimination,’ which create barriers to good jobs ‘that pay well, offer quality benefits and support workers’ right to come together in unions,’ according to an analysis from the National Partnership for Women and Families. ”
“’It’s harrowing that law enforcement is weaponizing automatic license plate reader technology for pregnancy policing. But given the surge of investigations and prosecutions targeting people for their pregnancy outcomes post-Dobbs, this surveillance ploy comes as no surprise. Reproductive dragnets are not hypothetical concerns. These surveillance tactics open the door for overzealous, anti-abortion state actors to amass data to build cases against people for their abortion care and pregnancy outcomes,’ said Ashley Kurzweil, Senior Policy Analyst for Reproductive Health and Rights for the National Partnership for Women & Families. ‘Law enforcement exploitation of mass surveillance infrastructure for reproductive health criminalization promises to be increasingly disruptive to the entire abortion access and pregnancy care landscape. The prevalence of these harmful data practices and risks of legal action drive real fear among abortion seekers and helpers – even intimidating people from getting the care they need.’”
“‘The wage gap persists because of systemic, discriminatory barriers, including the overrepresentation of women in low-wage work, and the lack of workplace policies to support workers’ caregiving needs,’ Jocelyn Frye, president of the National Partnership for Women & Families (NPFW), wrote in a statement responding to the census data. ‘It is long past time for our nation to finally ensure that every woman is paid what she is due.'”
We, the undersigned organizations representing the interests of women across the country, write to oppose President Trump’s unprecedented attempted firing of Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook and his further attempts to politicize the country’s central bank.
“Most pay equity advocates are glad men’s earnings have increased, said Katherine Gallagher Robbins, senior research fellow for the National Partnership for Women & Families.
“‘Women are falling farther behind because they are not gaining at the same level that men are,’ Robbins said. ‘It’s good that men are gaining; we want to see those wages go up. We know families need it. But we also can’t be in the situation where we’re seeing women being left further and further behind.'”
“On the one hand, it’s a good sign that men’s wages increased last year, says Katherine Gallagher Robbins, a senior fellow at the National Partnership for Women and Families. And when considering part-time workers, women’s median earnings grew about 5% between 2023 and 2024.
“But overall, ‘the concerning part is that women’s wages are not keeping pace,’ Robbins tells CNBC Make It. ‘What we would like to see is everyone’s wages to be increasing and for that gap to be closing at the same time.'”
“Wages for workers without a high-school degree were up 5.5% last year — and that may be driving the gap, Katherine Gallagher Robbins, a senior fellow at the National Partnership for Women & Families, tells Axios.”
“Experts like Jocelyn Frye, the president of the National Partnership for Women and Families, an organization that advocates for family policies, know how unaffordable child care can be a stressor for Black families.
“’If you have a high number of moms who are working, then you’re going to need access to care and if you’re asking them to spend almost half their income on childcare, that’s going to not only put pressure on the entire family economically, but it’s going to make it harder for them to afford that care to begin with.’”
“The broader context, says Jocelyn Frye, president of the National Partnership for Women & Families and co-leader of the 75 Million Campaign, is that today’s job losses are less about performance and more about politics.
“’When you lose a job not because of your work but because of a political agenda, it can feel demoralizing,’ Frye told me. ‘And for Black women, particularly Black mothers – more than 80% of whom are the primary breadwinners – it threatens the stability of entire families.’
“She points to the rollback of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives as both a cause and a consequence.
“’This administration has deployed a different narrative, but the purpose is the same as always: to erode the pathways that allowed Black women even a chance at the middle class,’ Frye told me.”
Her call to action: don’t internalize the systemic failures.
“This is not about individual deficiencies. It’s an ideological agenda. And we must push back—not only to protect jobs, but to protect the progress that got us here in the first place.”
“’Having these cuts is something that’s going to limit that access for a lot of Black women out there, and that’s something that will have a ripple effect on maternal mortality and morbidity,’ said Rolonda Donelson, a reproductive health equity legal fellow at the National Partnership for Women & Families.”
“Following Medina, Medicaid providers and enrollees will have few practical options for challenging state decisions about Medicaid funding and benefits. Medina is especially relevant to reproductive health services providers, and individuals seeking reproductive health care. Medicaid is the largest single payer of reproductive and maternal health services in the United States. According to the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services, it covers nearly 41% of all births nationwide, and the National Partnership for Women & Families states nearly 24 million women receive health insurance through the program. Post Medina, states may pursue policies to limit Medicaid spending on reproductive health care services.”
“‘So that’s 345,000 women veterans that live in states that have banned or are likely to ban abortion,” said Jaclyn Dean, director of congressional relations, reproductive health, at the National Partnership for Women & Families. “For many of the women veterans living in any of those 12 states with total abortion bans, the VA is the only place that they can get abortion care. So you can expect those people to lose abortion care in cases of rape, incest, in the life and health of the pregnant person.’”
“The National Partnership for Women & Families warns that without meaningful DEI protections, these disparities are likely to grow, particularly in workplaces that are no longer accountable to inclusive recruitment and advancement policies.”
“Though the transition from home to the hospital was made in the name of safety, it dramatically increased maternal mortality rates. That was ‘due to poor practitioner training, excessive interventions, and the failure to implement aseptic techniques,’ says Carol Sakala , who leads maternal health and maternity care programming at the National Partnership for Women &Families, a non-profit, non-partisan advocacy organization.”
“Jocelyn Frye, president of the National Partnership for Women & Families, said that there needs to be more support for women at all stages of caregiving and all kinds of work statuses to make sure women are economically and socially secure. Childcare, eldercare, and other family support policies that only focus on people in traditional employment, and require immediate attachment to work, leave behind people who are self-employed, seasonally employed, and have nontraditional employment statuses—many of whom are women, she said. There are better alternatives; policies that include women who face intimate partner violence issues. A federal bill, for example, would ensure that people can take paid sick time as a result of intimate partner violence.”
