Black Creators Push Back on “Exposure” Culture, Demand Equity – BET
“The disparities Pryor highlights are reflected in industry data. A study by the National Partnership for Women & Families found that Black women directors and producers make just 68 cents compared to their white, non-Hispanic male counterparts. Even though these gaps are within an occupation, they are nearly as large as the overall wage gaps for Black women. This data serves as a critical reminder that acclaimed actresses may be both famous and highly under-compensated—the two are not mutually exclusive.”
A Texas Cop Searched License Plate Cameras Nationwide for a Woman Who Got an Abortion – 404 Media
“Ashley Emery, senior policy analyst in reproductive health and rights at the National Partnership for Women & Families, told 404 Media ‘The risks of this intrusive government monitoring cannot be overstated: law enforcement could deploy this surveillance technology to target and try to build cases against pregnant people who travel for abortion care and those who help them. This incident is undeniably a harbinger of more AI-enabled reproductive surveillance and investigations to come. Especially for women of color who are already over-surveilled and over-policed, the stakes couldn’t be higher.'”
The GOP Is About To Make It Even Harder To Have Kids – HuffPost
“’It’s the largest proposed cut to Medicaid in its 60-year history,’ said Sarah Coombs, the director for health system transformation at the National Partnership for Women and Families, a nonprofit dedicated to promoting reproductive health and rights. ‘If this bill passes, the effects are so pervasive I think it will be significantly hard to come back from it.'”
Lifestyle Black Maternal Health Week: How Insurance Gaps Are Putting Black Moms at Risk – BET
“Moreover, as Rolonda Donelson powerfully observed in a recent National Partnership for Women & Families blog post, it is problematic to cast abortion as a legally cognizable source of injury when ‘the truth is that those declines are much more likely caused by the states themselves… and their policy shortcomings.’ Thus, ‘characterizing abortion as a ‘harm’ to the state increases misogyny and refuses to hold states accountable for the failures they have caused by not providing social support to children and families already in existence.'”
Our Shared Experience of Being Under Attack – The Progressive Magazine
“This is visible in Trump’s policies, Sharita Gruberg, vice president for economic justice at the National Partnership for Women and Families (NPWF), explains to me. The Executive Order, she says, allows members of the Trump Administration ‘to review anything that has gender in it.’ The public face was the attack on trans people, but the implementation goes beyond, ‘trying to claw back gender equity projects and work and data.'”
‘Make Motherhood Great Again’: Pronatalism Finds a Comfortable Home in the Trump Administration – Ms. Magazine
“Moreover, as Rolonda Donelson powerfully observed in a recent National Partnership for Women & Families blog post, it is problematic to cast abortion as a legally cognizable source of injury when ‘the truth is that those declines are much more likely caused by the states themselves… and their policy shortcomings.’ Thus, ‘characterizing abortion as a ‘harm’ to the state increases misogyny and refuses to hold states accountable for the failures they have caused by not providing social support to children and families already in existence.'”
Young Women Are Starting to Recession-Proof Their Lives – Wall Street Journal
“Young women in particular have a better feel for something going south,” says Anwesha Majumder, economist at the National Partnership for Women & Families, a nonprofit organization. When their spending starts pulling back, she says, “it’s possible that things will quickly spiral for the economy as a whole.”
Virginia women earn nearly $15K less than men – Axios
“Gender pay differences reflect in part ‘a lack of workplace policies that support family caregiving, which is still most often performed by women,’ according to the National Partnership for Women and Families.”
7 Experts Rebuke EEOC For Unlawful Anti-DEI Targeting Of Employers – Forbes
“The Chair is not authorized to unilaterally issue demand letters to any employer and publicly announce them to the world just because she wants to do so,” said Jocelyn Frye, President of the National Partnership for Women & Families, in a March 19, 2025 statement. “Lucas’ action seems designed to be an intimidation tactic, without sufficient legal authority.”
17 states want to end an abortion privacy rule. A federal judge is questioning HIPAA itself. – Stateline
“The threats to the 2000 privacy rule would be a seismic shift that could erode patients’ trust entirely in their providers and dissuade them from wanting to seek out health care and be transparent about their symptoms,” said Ashley Emery, a senior policy analyst for the nonprofit Partnership for Women and Families. “A law enforcement officer could pressure a psychiatrist to share patient notes from therapy sessions without a subpoena, without a warrant, if the 2000 privacy rule is invalidated.”
