# National Partnership for Women \& Families: At the National Partnership, we’re all about making life better for women and families\.

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## Pages
- [About Us](https://nationalpartnership.org/about-us/): At the National Partnership, our mission is to improve the lives of women and families by achieving equality for all women\. That means standing strong for women's health, reproductive rights and economic justice\.
- [Contact Us](https://nationalpartnership.org/about-us/contact-us/)
- [Privacy Policy](https://nationalpartnership.org/privacy-policy/)
- [Listening to Mothers Survey](https://nationalpartnership.org/health-justice/maternal-health/listening-to-mothers-iv/): \<p\>Listening to Mothers is the largest and most comprehensive survey of new mothers in a decade\. Explore the findings from more than 3,800 mothers across the country\.\</p\>
- [Maternal Health](https://nationalpartnership.org/health-justice/maternal-health/): \<p\>We work to improve the quality and value of maternity care through consumer engagement and health system transformation\.\</p\>
- [Economic Justice](https://nationalpartnership.org/economic-justice/): We advance public policies that promote economic justice and workplace equity throughout women’s lives\.
- [Fair Pay](https://nationalpartnership.org/economic-justice/fair-pay/): You deserve to be paid fairly\. It’s that simple\.
- [Social Impact \& Business Working Group](https://nationalpartnership.org/advocacy/social-impact-business-working-group/): Since 2018, the BWG has brought together top employers to facilitate a dialogue around strengthening gender equity in the workplace, learn from experts, connect with policymakers and promote shared learning and new partnerships\.

## Posts
- [One Year In, 53 Ways the Second Trump Administration Is Harming Women and Families](https://nationalpartnership.org/one-year-in-53-ways-the-second-trump-administration-is-harming-women-and-families/): \<p\>Amidst a nonstop, chaotic whirlwind of daily breaking news, court decisions and more, the Administration is abusing its power to turn back the clock on rights and protections for hundreds of millions of people\. We highlight some ways this administration has been particularly harmful for women and their families\. 
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- [A Record High for Paid Sick Days Access Means Little for Part\-Time and Low\-Wage Workers](https://nationalpartnership.org/record-high-paid-sick-days-access-means-little-for-part-time-low-wage-workers/): \<p\>Nearly 24 million private sector workers still can't earn a single paid sick day to stay home when they're battling the flu or take their kid to a doctor's appointment\. This is unsustainable for working caregivers amid the Trump administration's attacks on women in our economy\.\</p\>
- [NEWS: FDA Nominee Overton says all U\.S\. vaccines safe](https://nationalpartnership.org/news-fda-nominee-overton-says-all-u-s-vaccines-safe/): \<p\>Democratic Senator Patty Murray of Washington repeatedly pressed Overton on whether she personally agreed that the abortion pill mifepristone is safe and effective\. Overton declined to give a direct answer, saying her job would be to abide by the statutory standards for safety and efficacy\.\</p\>
- [NEWS: Two Oklahoma women suing over being denied abortions after fatal fetal diagnoses](https://nationalpartnership.org/news-two-oklahoma-women-suing-over-being-denied-abortions-after-fatal-fetal-diagnoses/): \<p\>Two Oklahoma mothers are challenging state abortion laws in a new lawsuit filed Wednesday\. The women are suing state leaders after they were denied access to an abortion for their effectively nonviable pregnancies and forced to seek care outside of the state\.\</p\>
- [2026 State Legislative Highlights](https://nationalpartnership.org/2026-state-legislative-highlights/): \<p\>Each year, we track some of our most important paid leave policy fights across the nation, and this year has highlights and lowlights\. This piece covers key developments of paid family and medical leave and paid sick and safe days including Virginia's passage of critical paid leave and paid sick days laws and progress toward paid leave in three states\.\</p\>

## Events
- [2026 Annual Event](https://nationalpartnership.org/events/2026-annual-event-highlights/): Featuring Nancy Pelosi, Ai\-jen Poo, Del\. Briana Sewell and Rep\. Teresa Leger Fernández
- [2024 Annual Event](https://nationalpartnership.org/events/2024-annual-event-highlights/): Featuring Teresa C\. Younger, Errin Haines and Rep\. Jimmy Gomez
- [2015 Annual Luncheon](https://nationalpartnership.org/events/highlights-from-2015-luncheon/): Featuring Thomas E\. Perez, United States Secretary of Labor; Sheila Lirio Marcelo, Founder, Chairwoman and CEO Care\.com; Petula Dvorak, Washington Post columnist
- [2025 Annual Event](https://nationalpartnership.org/events/2025-annual-event-highlights/): Featuring Joy\-Ann Reid, Julie Su, Bishop Leah Daughtry, M'Evie Mead and Cory Booker
- [2023 Annual Event](https://nationalpartnership.org/events/2023-annual-event-highlights/): Featuring Vice President Kamala Harris, Rep\. Robin Kelly, Rep\. Ayanna Pressley and Dr\. Richard Besser

## News
- [24 Million Private Sector Workers Can't Take Paid Sick Days](https://nationalpartnership.org/news_post/24-million-private-sector-workers-cant-take-paid-sick-days/): \<p\>A new analysis by NPWF experts of data released by Bureau of Labor Statistics \(BLS\) shows 81% of private\-sector workers can now take paid time off work when they're sick – but 24 million workers still lack access\.\</p\>
- [Wage Gap Narrows for Working Women Overall, but Progress Is Uneven](https://nationalpartnership.org/news_post/wage-gap-narrows-for-working-women-overall-but-progress-is-uneven/): \<p\>Following their annual analysis of Census Bureau data on women’s and men’s pay, experts at the National Partnership for Women \& Families \(NPWF\) determined that the gap in pay for all working women, whether they work full or part time, narrowed by two cents and now stands at 78 cents for every man’s dollar\. This comes alongside news that the wage gap for women working full time, year round narrowed by three cents in 2025 – to 84 cents – after widening for the last two years in a row\.\</p\>
- [New Study Shows How the Future of More Than 8 Million Disabled Students Hangs in the Balance Due to Trump Administration’s Changes to Education Requirements](https://nationalpartnership.org/news_post/new-study-shows-how-the-future-of-more-than-8-million-disabled-students-hangs-in-the-balance-due-to-trump-administrations-changes-to-education-requirements/): \<p\>In part three of its new disability economic justice report series, the National Partnership for Women \& Families shows how Trump\-administration changes to the U\.S\. Department of Education will have lasting, harmful effects on the financial stability of women with disabilities\.\</p\>
- [Gloria Steinem's Extraordinary Fight for Women's Rights](https://nationalpartnership.org/news_post/gloria-steinems-extraordinary-fight-for-womens-rights/): \<p\>"Gloria Steinem lived an extraordinary life, impacting the lives of millions across multiple generations\. She fought for women’s rights and gender justice at all levels, from work rooms to board rooms to classrooms to newsrooms, in every corner of the country and around the world\."\</p\>
- [SCOTUS Ruling in Trump v\. Slaughter Will Hurt Workers, Further Erode Federal Government](https://nationalpartnership.org/news_post/scotus-ruling-in-trump-v-slaughter-will-hurt-workers-further-erode-federal-government/): \<p\>"Today, the Supreme Court ruling in \<em\>Trump v\. Slaughter\</em\> gave Donald Trump the power to legally fire commissioners of independent government agencies, without cause\. Previously, heads of these agencies could only be fired for serious causes, such as misconduct\."\</p\>

## CBC posts
- [Your Body Throughout Pregnancy](https://nationalpartnership.org/childbirthconnection/healthy-pregnancy/your-body-throughout-pregnancy/)
- [Resources](https://nationalpartnership.org/childbirthconnection/resources/)
- [Cesarean Section \(C\-section\)](https://nationalpartnership.org/childbirthconnection/giving-birth/c-section/)
- [Labor Support Resources](https://nationalpartnership.org/childbirthconnection/giving-birth/labor-support/resources/)
- [VBAC Basics](https://nationalpartnership.org/childbirthconnection/giving-birth/vbac/basics/)

## Reports
- [What's the Wage Gap in the States?](https://nationalpartnership.org/report/wage-gap/): \<p\>Overall, women in the United States are paid 75 cents for every dollar paid to men, and that gap is widest for women of color\. This persistent, pervasive wage gap is driven in part by gender and racial discrimination, workplace harassment, job segregation and a lack of workplace policies that support family caregiving, which is still most often performed by women\.\</p\>
- [Black Women's Maternal Health](https://nationalpartnership.org/report/black-womens-maternal-health/): The reproductive health of Black women has long been compromised by interpersonal, institutional, and structural racism\. In addition to contending with social and economic drivers of poor health that undermine Black Americans, they have experienced discriminatory health care practices and abuse from slavery to the present\.
- [Paid Leave Is Essential for Healthy Moms and Babies](https://nationalpartnership.org/report/paid-leave-is-essential-for/): The Problem: The lack of national paid leave compromises the health and well\-being of pregnant people and their infants
- [The Trump Administration Is Weakening the School\-to\-Work Pipeline for Disabled Students](http://nationalpartnership.org/report/trump-administration-weakening-school-to-work-pipeline-for-disabled-students/): \<p\>This brief examines how the Trump administration's restructuring of key disability programs affects the systems that prepare disabled students for adulthood and, ultimately, employment and long\-term economic security\.\</p\>
- [Glossary of Equity\-Centered Payment Reform](https://nationalpartnership.org/report/glossary-payment-reform/): Key terms for health equity\-centered payment reform

## Team
- [Anabel Masaschi](https://nationalpartnership.org/member/anabel-masaschi/): Anabel Masaschi is the Huber Reproductive Health Equity Legal Fellow at the National Partnership for Women \& Families\.
- [Michaela Kretzner](https://nationalpartnership.org/member/michaela-kretzner/): Michaela Kretzner is the Judith Lichtman Legacy Fund Fellow and Women’s Law \& Public Policy Fellow at the National Partnership for Women \& Families\.
- [Jamie Floyd](https://nationalpartnership.org/member/floyd-jamie/): Jamie Floyd is the Huber Reproductive Health Equity Legal Fellow at the National Partnership for Women \& Families\. 
- [Izzie Kenhard](https://nationalpartnership.org/member/kenhard-izzie/): Izzie Kenhard is the development associate at the National Partnership for Women \& Families, where she supports the development team in their efforts to raise funds from a diverse collection of partners\. 
- [Kiera Peoples](https://nationalpartnership.org/member/peoples-kiera/)

## Categories
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- [Repro Health Watch](http://nationalpartnership.org/category/repro-health-watch/)
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## Tags
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- [Abortion Access](http://nationalpartnership.org/tag/abortion-access/)
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