Press Statements
Virginia’s Passage of Paid Sick Days and Paid Safe Leave Shows Commitment to Working People
"The National Partnership for Women & Families applauds the passage of legislation that will provide paid sick leave and paid safe leave to workers across the state of Virginia. HB5/SB199 will keep workers from having to decide between going to work sick or ignoring their own health and safety, and losing money in their paychecks or their jobs altogether."
New Analysis: Blocking Paid Sick Leave Is Blocking Black Women’s Progress
Coming off the 100th anniversary of Black History Month, and now transitioning into Women's History Month, a new report shows that Black women are disproportionately impacted by the absence of a national paid sick leave law.
NPWF Celebrates Virginia Becoming the 15th State and First in the South to Pass Paid Family and Medical Leave
"The National Partnership for Women & Families is thrilled to congratulate Virginia on passing a paid family and medical leave law, which will provide 3.2 million Virginians with access to paid time off to take care of themselves or their loved ones."
One-Third of Working People Are Now Covered by State Paid Leave
A new report from the National Partnership for Women & Families reveals that one in three private-sector workers in the U.S. now has access to paid family and medical leave through a state program.
National Partnership for Women & Families Calls for National Paid Sick Days Through Support of Healthy Families Act
"With one in five workers nationwide still lacking access to paid sick days, this bill help would guarantee that no one has to choose between their job and their health or family."
News Coverage
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.'”
