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...
House Fiscal Year 2024 Appropriations Bills Reveal An Extreme Agenda That Would Set Women Back Decades
FACT SHEET | The Fiscal Year 2024 appropriations bills put forward by House Republican leaders make clear their intent to continue the unrelenting efforts of extremists to erode women’s rights and eliminate hard-won protections essential to women's survival.
Systems Transformation Guide to Disability Economic Justice: Jobs and Employment
REPORT | This report discusses issues related to caregiving, discrimination, public benefits, barriers to competitive integrated employment, labor violations and costs associated with employment for disabled workers.
State Abortion Bans Harm More Than 15 Million Women of Color
ISSUE BRIEF | Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization is a decision that is about access to essential healthcare, but also much more than that. It is, at its core, a decision — deeply rooted in sexism and racism — about the role women and people who can become...
Current Paid Sick Days Laws
FACT SHEET | A list of all the paid sick days laws that are or will soon be in effect in the United States.
How Data Collection Can Help Close the Wage Gap
ISSUE BRIEF | The wage gap impacts people's livelihoods, the future of work and the economy – and pay data collection is a critical tool for solving it.
What Policymakers Can Do on Pay Equity Data Collection to Help Close the Wage Gap
Data collection is at the forefront of many timely conversations involving women at work, and is being tracked by global news networks, job sites, and economic and academic researchers and advocates.
What Businesses Can Do on Pay Equity Data Collection to Help Close the Wage Gap
National Partnership for Women & Families analysis reveals that of companies on the Fortune 100 list in 2022, roughly two-thirds are already reporting wage gap data to the U.K.
FAMILY Act Coalition Letter to Congress
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.
Americans Need Access to Paid Safe Leave
FACT SHEET | Gender-based violence causes economic instability
Survivors of Domestic and Sexual Violence Need Paid Safe Days
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.
Sexual Harassment and the Gender Wage Gap
Despite being prohibited by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, workplace sexual harassment remains pervasive and pernicious. Sexual harassment is one of many manifestations of power imbalances in the workplace.
Women’s Work Is Undervalued, and It’s Costing Us Billions
ISSUE BRIEF | This analysis documents the persistence of occupational segregation: women tend to hold jobs that are paid less than those men are likely to hold, and jobs in which women of color are overrepresented pay less than those primarily filled by white,...
The Paycheck Fairness Act: A Section-by-Section Summary
A section-by-section legislative summary of the Paycheck Fairness Act, which would combat pay discrimination that contributes to the gender wage gap.
The Paycheck Fairness Act
FACT SHEET | Enactment of the Paycheck Fairness Act would be a critical step forward in the fight for fair pay for women.
How Much Income Will Build Back Better Paid Leave Replace?
The Build Back Better Act would provide up to four weeks of paid family and medical leave for working people who time away from work to welcome a new child, address their own serious health condition or care for a loved one with a serious health condition. The paid...
Paid Leave Could Keep More Than 6 Million Caregivers Connected
Due to the lack of paid family and medical leave in the United States, many people — predominantly women — are forced to choose between caregiving and their job.
Paid Leave Is a Lifeline for All
Universal paid family and medical leave is critical to American families’ financial security, especially for low-income women and workers of color. Establishing national paid leave by passing the Build Back Better Act would provide this vital benefit to the 77 percent...
Paid Leave Is a Lifeline in the States
Universal paid family and medical leave is critical to American families’ financial security, especially for low-income women and workers of color. Establishing national paid leave by passing the Build Back Better Act would provide this vital benefit to the 77 percent...
Gender and Geography of Higher-Income Workers
Nationally, 16.5 percent of full-time, year-round workers have earnings of $100,000 or more – an estimated 19.2 million people. Due to the gender wage gap, men are more likely than women to have earnings above this threshold: 20.6 percent of men (13.5 million) working...
Paid Leave Would Cut Healthcare Costs
It is more apparent than ever. The lack of a national paid family and medical leave policy in the United States costs working people their health and financial security – and the price tag is rising.