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National Partnership Condemns Supreme Court’s Chevron Decision that will Harm Women, Families and the Nation

Statement of Jocelyn Frye, President of the National Partnership for Women & Families WASHINGTON, D.C. – June 28, 2024 – Today, the Supreme Court upended sound, longstanding, legal precedent that has provided protections for everyday people for decades...

New Analysis Shows Unpaid Care Work in the U.S. is Worth More Than $1 Trillion Each Year

Asian women and Latinas spend the most time on unpaid caregiving per capita WASHINGTON, D.C. – June 27, 2024 – The National Partnership for Women & Families (NPWF) released a new analysis today, finding that Americans’ unpaid care work –...

EMTALA: Supreme Court Dismissal Leaves Pregnant Patients and Providers in Untenable Limbo

Statement of Jocelyn Frye, President of the National Partnership for Women & Families WASHINGTON, D.C. – June 27, 2024 – Today, the Supreme Court, in an unsigned opinion, dismissed for now a challenge to the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act’s...

NEWS: More voters, especially women, now say abortion is their top issue

More Voters, Especially Women, Now Say Abortion Is Their Top Issue New York Times, August 31, 2024 Attitudes on abortion are deeply entrenched and have motivated voters across the American political landscape for decades. But in a post-Roe world, with abortion access...

Pushing Past Restrictions: Six Places Where City Workers Have Access to Paid Sick Leave

Every person gets sick, and no one should be forced to choose between their job and their health, or their family’s health. Currently, about 28 million people – nearly one in five private-sector workers – cannot earn a single paid sick day. Earned sick...

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Women Shouldn’t Be Left out of the Equal Pay Conversation

August 28 marks Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI) Women’s Equal Pay Day in 2024. NHPI women are typically paid 60 cents for every dollar paid to white, non-Hispanic men – one of the largest gender wage gaps in the country. But the economic disparities that...

Paid Leave Will Help Close the Gender Wage Gap

FACT SHEET | The wage gap illustrates the high cost women are paying for our nation’s policy failure, including our lack of paid family and medical leave to support family caregiving, which is still most often performed by women.

State Paid Family and Medical Leave Insurance Laws

CHART | A detailed summary of existing family leave laws in California, New Jersey, Rhode Island, New York, D.C., Washington, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Oregon, Colorado, Maryland, Delaware, Minnesota and Maine.

HIPAA Privacy Rule to Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy

FACT SHEET | The Office for Civil Rights at the Department of Health and Human Services finalized the HIPAA Privacy Rule to Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy on April 26, 2024, in response to the threats to abortion access, health care privacy, and...

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Paid Leave Works: Evidence in State Programs
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Model State Paid Family and Medical Leave Statute
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National Partnership Condemns Supreme Court’s Chevron Decision that will Harm Women, Families and the Nation

New Analysis Shows Unpaid Care Work in the U.S. is Worth More Than $1 Trillion Each Year

EMTALA: Supreme Court Dismissal Leaves Pregnant Patients and Providers in Untenable Limbo

NEWS: More voters, especially women, now say abortion is their top issue

Pushing Past Restrictions: Six Places Where City Workers Have Access to Paid Sick Leave

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Women Shouldn’t Be Left out of the Equal Pay Conversation

Paid Leave Will Help Close the Gender Wage Gap

State Paid Family and Medical Leave Insurance Laws

HIPAA Privacy Rule to Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy

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