Each year, the holiday dedicated to the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. reminds us of his remarkable contributions in the fight for civil rights and freedom and his powerful legacy that continues to serve as a beacon of hope. In 2025, the holiday falls on...
National Partnership staff share their reflections on Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century by Alice Wong following book club discussions led by the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Anti-Racism team.
Recently, lawmakers in several states and localities have been advocating for mask bans and have seen success in places like North Carolina and Nassau County, New York. But with the COVID-19 pandemic still raging on and conservative efforts to delegitimize the efficacy of masks, the renewed push to ban face masks, catapulted by fear-mongering and a legacy of eugenics, will harm and threaten the health and safety of disabled people, particularly disabled women and disabled women of color.
Gender justice requires identifying and addressing inequities for all lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex and other sexual and gender minority (LGBTQI+) people.
For this May’s AANHPI Heritage Month and Mental Health Awareness Month, I spoke with some AANHPI NPWF colleagues about some of the issues contributing to stigmas and barriers surrounding mental health in our vastly diverse communities. Check out some common themes within our individual experiences!
This month as we mark Jewish American heritage month, there are many reasons why I cherish my Jewish identity
To acknowledge Mental Health Awareness Month this May, DOL’s Office of Disability Employment Policy sat down with Marissa Ditkowsky, disability economic justice counsel at the nonprofit National Partnership for Women & Families and adjunct professor at American University Washington College of Law (AUWCL).
On Missing or Murdered Indigenous Women’s Awareness Day, we remember the many lives shattered or lost, and commit to working with Native communities to find justice and keep families safe.
To commemorate this year’s Women’s History Month theme, which celebrates women who advocate for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), the DEIA team explored their reflections of the significance of this month and its dedicated theme.
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.
We’re launching our new Women 2024 Action Fund this Giving Tuesday because women cannot continue bearing the brunt of Congress’ dysfunction and inaction.
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.
During Care Week, our staff truly prioritized their rest and time based on their own needs. Here are some things our staff did with this time.
Our country’s child care sector is historically underpaid, underfunded—with some workers even excluded from the full protections provided in our labor and civil rights laws—because its burdens are borne by women of color.
To commemorate Juneteenth, National Partnership President Jocelyn Frye joins Aimee Peoples — our Vice President for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Anti-Racism — for a conversation on what the holiday means to her and to the work of our organization.
We’re closing the Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders (AA and NHPI) Heritage Month with a blog post Q&A featuring Erika Moritsugu, who was appointed in April 2021 to serve as Deputy Assistant to the President and AA and NHPI Senior Liaison.
Jaclyn Dean, Director of Congressional Relations-Reproductive Health, gives book recommendations for celebrating AANHPI heritage year round.
Inclusive, comprehensive data on racial and ethnicity is essential for gender justice and the work of the National Partnership.
New data reveal employment challenges for young women veterans, veterans of color, and disabled veterans.
In a time when Black stories and Black history are being erased and censored, uplifting those stories and the people who tell and live them is critically important. That’s why this Black History Month, some of the National Partnership staff have put forward book recommendations by Black authors.