Statement of Jocelyn Frye, President of the National Partnership for Women & Families WASHINGTON, D.C. – April 8, 2024 – “Today, we join with our friends and allies in Virginia vowing to continue the fight for paid leave, following the disappointing...
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In the Year of the Union, Black women and Latinas lead union growth in 2023
by Katherine Gallagher Robbins, Anwesha Majumder | Jan 24, 2024 | Fair Pay
Latinas see the largest increase in union membership rates among women despite little change in overall share of union membership.
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Reflections on Where We Are Post-Dobbs
by Meera Rajput | Jan 22, 2024 | Reproductive Rights
Monday, January 22, marks the 51st anniversary of Roe v. Wade – and while this should have been a day to honor and reflect how far we have come since Roe was decided, it is now a day to lament what we have lost.
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NEWS: Ohio Woman Who Suffered Miscarriage at Home Will Not Be Criminally Charged
by Repro Health Watch | Jan 18, 2024 | Repro Health Watch
An Ohio woman who suffered a miscarriage and left the nonviable fetus at home will not be criminally charged, a grand jury decided Thursday, dismissing a case that highlighted the extent to which women can be prosecuted when their pregnancy ends – whether by abortion or miscarriage.
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NEWS: SCOTUS Allows Idaho to Keep Banning Abortion in Nearly All Cases
by Repro Health Watch | Jan 11, 2024 | Repro Health Watch
The Supreme Court has allowed Idaho to enforce its strict abortion ban, which applies to medical emergencies. The decision arrived on Friday as a legal battle over reproductive rights rages on in the state, and is the first time the high court weighed in on Idaho’s abortion ban since the overturning of Roe v. Wade
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NEWS: The states where abortion could be on the ballot in 2024
by Repro Health Watch | Dec 21, 2023 | Repro Health Watch
Seven states have directly voted on abortion since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022 — and abortion rights advocates are so far undefeated with ballot measures.
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NEWS: Supreme Court to hear case on access to mifepristone abortion pill
by Repro Health Watch | Dec 15, 2023 | Repro Health Watch
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to weigh in on the future of mifepristone, a drug used in more than half of all abortions in the United States, setting up another major dispute over abortion rights less than two years after the court’s conservative majority voted to overturn Roe v. Wade
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The Economy Holds Steady in November as the Child Care Sector Continues to Struggle | #JobsDay December 2023
by Katherine Gallagher Robbins | Dec 8, 2023 | Fair Pay
The November Jobs Report shows a steady economy heading into 2024, though the child care sector continues to lag behind overall job growth.
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NEWS: Top lawmakers drop abortion limits from defense bill
by Repro Health Watch | Dec 7, 2023 | Repro Health Watch
A compromise defense policy bill unveiled late Wednesday will not include a Republican-backed proposal to block the Pentagon’s abortion travel policy, nixing a controversial measure that threatened to tank the legislation.
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New Census proposal would reduce the number of disabled women and girls counted by nearly 10 million
by Marissa Ditkowsky, Katherine Gallagher Robbins | Dec 5, 2023 | Other
A new proposal from Census would change the definition of disability in the American Community Survey, reducing the official count of disabled people by 40 percent. This change could have significant implications for supports for disabled people.
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NEWS: Supreme Court to confront post-Roe abortion battles
by Repro Health Watch | Nov 30, 2023 | Repro Health Watch
Supreme Court justices are slated to delve into disputes surrounding abortion during their final session this year, revealing the legal battlefronts forming in the wake of the high court’s stunning decision that overturned Roe v. Wade.
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Why we’re launching the Women 2024 Action Fund this Giving Tuesday
by Sharita Gruberg | Nov 28, 2023 | Other
We’re launching our new Women 2024 Action Fund this Giving Tuesday because women cannot continue bearing the brunt of Congress’ dysfunction and inaction.
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Inequality Didn’t Just Happen… It Was By Design. It’s Time to Return to Our Values and Return to the Heart.
by Gina Jackson | Nov 27, 2023 | Other
Equal pay is one marker of the multitude of inequalities Native women face. We are a young democracy as an American government that can still learn from the values of its Indigenous people who cultivated and cared for this land since time immemorial, sustaining it for generations to come.