Ashley Kurzweil (she/her) is the Senior Policy Analyst for Reproductive Health and Rights at the National Partnership for Women & Families.
"Fighting for Equality + Equity" (video, June 5, 2025)
Our mission is to improve the lives of women and families by achieving equality for all women.
Kamala Harris speaking at the National Partnership Annual Gala (Washington, DC, 2016)
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Statement of Jocelyn Frye, President of the National Partnership for Women & Families Today, President Trump signed the Republican budget bill that will undermine the health and economic security of millions of people who rely on essential programs like Medicaid...
Statement of Jocelyn Frye, President of the National Partnership for Women & Families The Senate has voted to advance a Republican Budget Bill that would undermine the health and economic security of 17 million people who rely on essential programs like Medicaid...
Women Do a Majority of Unpaid Care Work, With Each Woman Spending Nearly 300 Hours per Year on Caregiving WASHINGTON, D.C. – June 26, 2025 – A new analysis from the National Partnership for Women & Families (NPWF) finds that if Americans who provide care...
July 10th, 2025, is Black Women’s Equal Pay Day, commemorating how far into the year that Black women need to work to earn what white, non-Hispanic men made in the previous year. In 2023, Black women earners, including full-time, part-time and part-year workers, were...
A “Striking” Trend: After Texas Banned Abortion, More Women Nearly Bled to Death During Miscarriage ProPublica, July 1, 2025 Before states banned abortion, one of the gravest outcomes of early miscarriage could easily be avoided: Doctors could offer a dilation and...
“Thus it is not enough just to open the gates of opportunity. All our citizens must have the ability to walk through those gates. This is the next and the more profound stage of the battle for civil rights.” — Lyndon B. Johnson, Commencement Address at Howard...
ISSUE BRIEF | Lawmakers in 18 states across the country – the majority of which are in the South – fail to guarantee that workers can earn paid sick days, and at the same time block local governments from setting their own standards for local workers, families and...
ISSUE BRIEF | Rather than passing a comprehensive bill to create a national paid family and medical leave program, Congress's reconciliation bill uses a much narrower, business-focused tax code approach to extend a corporate tax credit that has failed working families.
FACT SHEET | Republicans in Congress are considering historic Medicaid cuts that would have a devastating impact on rural hospitals and patients, particularly on pregnant women with low incomes and their children.
