CHART | A detailed summary of existing paid sick days laws. Paid sick days laws are or will soon be in place in 36 jurisdictions across the country, including in 15 states (including the District of Columbia), 17 cities and four counties.
Working Survivors Need Paid Safe Leave
FACT SHEET | On the need for the country's workplace policies to provide domestic and sexual violence survivors the support and job protection they need to recover - through a paid sick and safe days standard.
Letter to EEOC Chair Lucas Feb. 10, 2026
LETTER | Expressing concern about EEOC Chair Lucas's recent statements in a February 6, 2026 interview that suggested that a transgender person’s use of facilities consistent with their gender identity may constitute unlawful harassment and encouraged cisgender women...
Key Facts: The Family and Medical Leave Act
FACT SHEET | The FMLA has been used about 566 million times by working people who needed to care for their own health or the health of their families. In 2025 alone, more than 15 million workers were supported by the FMLA.
Paid Leave Works: Evidence From State Programs
FACT SHEET | Studies of the nation's state paid family leave programs demonstrate how well paid leave policies work for workers, families and businesses.
The Healthy Families Act: A Section-by-Section Summary
A section-by-section summary of the Healthy Families Act, which would establish a national paid sick days standard.
Repeal, Defund and Deauthorize: The 15-Year War Against the ACA
FACT SHEET | The ACA remains widely popular, with a majority of U.S. adults favoring its provisions across political lines. Yet 15 years and over 100 attempts to repeal, defund or deauthorize later, the ACA continues to face political and legislative threats.
Latina Women and the Wage Gap
FACT SHEET | The wages of Latina women are driven down by a number of current factors including gender and racial discrimination, workplace harassment, job segregation and a lack of workplace policies that support family caregiving, which is still most often performed...
Reproductive Health and Data Privacy After Roe: Threats and Opportunities for State Action
ISSUE BRIEF | Health and data privacy are increasingly under threat, leaving people vulnerable to the misuse of their personal information amid the broader landscape of reproductive health and pregnancy criminalization.
Black Women and the Wage Gap
FACT SHEET | Even in states with large populations of Black women in the workforce, rampant wage disparities persist, with potentially devastating consequences for Black women and families.
Native American Women and the Wage Gap
FACT SHEET | The wages of Native women are driven down by a number of factors that they are likely to encounter in the workplace and labor market, including gender and racial discrimination, workplace harassment, job segregation and a lack of workplace policies that...
At-Risk Rural Labor & Delivery Units List
LIST | The following is a list of at-risk rural hospitals with labor and delivery units identified based on analysis by the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research at the University of North Carolina.
The Wage Gap #IRL (In Real Life) for Women of Color: Groceries, Child Care and Student Loans
FACT SHEET | Women of color in the United States experience the nation's persistent and pervasive gender wage gap most severely. U.S. Census Bureau data reveal the size of that gap by race.
America’s Women and the Wage Gap
FACT SHEET | Overall, women in the United States are paid 75 cents for every dollar paid to men. The wage gap widened in 2023 from 2022 – the first time this has happened since 2003. When women lose income, their economic security and that of their families is...
FAMILY Act Open Letter from National and State Organizations
LETTER | On behalf of the undersigned organizations and the tens of millions of working families we represent, we urge members of Congress to become a co-sponsor of the Family And Medical Insurance Leave Act (FAMILY) Act.
The Healthy Families Act Fact Sheet
FACT SHEET | The Healthy Families Act would set a national paid sick days standard – a critical step toward meeting the health and financial needs of working families.
Paid Sick Days Are Good for Business
FACT SHEET | Businesses benefit when their employees have access to paid sick days. When sick workers are able to stay home to recover, it lessens the risk of contagion, making workplaces healthier and employees more productive.
Paid Sick Days Improve Public Health
FACT SHEET | Every day, millions of U.S. workers face an impossible choice when they are sick: stay home and risk their economic security or go to work and risk their health and the public’s health. The evidence is clear: When workers have access to paid sick days,...
The History of Executive Order 11246
FACT SHEET | For nearly 90 years, presidential executive orders have shaped the fight for equal employment opportunity in federal contracting. This timeline outlines the critical moments that built, expanded and ultimately eliminated Executive Order 11246.
House GOP Fiscal Year 2026 Appropriations Bills Threaten Women’s Ability to Thrive
FACT SHEET | House Republican leaders make their priorities clear: undoing long-standing protections for women in the workplace, slashing critical women's health programs and further restricting access to abortion and reproductive health services.
