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Jun 10, 2025 |
Today, the National Partnership for Women and Families unveiled the top companies setting new standards for paid leave policies in 2025. The 2025 “Leading on Leave” report highlights seven companies that exceeded benchmark qualifications for their policies and practices on paid leave.
Jun 6, 2025 |
When a health crisis or emergency arises, and when minutes and seconds can be the difference between life or death, it is critical to ensure that patients receive the care that they need quickly and without hesitation. This week, the Trump Administration made this task harder by revoking guidance clarifying that the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) applies in cases where abortion care is necessary to stabilize a patient, even when there is a state abortion ban in place.
Jun 4, 2025 |
Since being created by Congress more than 100 years ago, the Women’s Bureau at the Department of Labor has made significant contributions to improving women’s status and treatment in the workplace.
Jun 3, 2025 |
“Jocelyn Frye, president of the National Partnership for Women & Families, is featured in the documentary. Caregiving issues, she said, ‘are not niche concerns.’
“‘The vast majority of families navigate these problems every day and it is important for people to see that they are part of a large community of people struggling to figure things out,’ Frye said.”
Jun 2, 2025 |
“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.”
May 29, 2025 |
“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.'”
May 23, 2025 |
“’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.'”
May 22, 2025 |
The House of Representatives voted today to advance a budget reconciliation package that would undermine the health and economic security of tens of millions of people who rely on essential programs like Medicaid, the ACA, SNAP, and the Child Tax Credit, all to fund tax breaks for the wealthy.
May 14, 2025 |
More than 100 million people do not have paid family leave through their jobs. For far too long, these workers – both women and men –– have had to choose: go to work and continue earning a paycheck to pay bills and keep food on the table – or stay home to care for a sick loved one.
May 13, 2025 |
Today the National Partnership for Women & Families announced the additions of Jenna Skinner Scanlan and Emma Shapiro to the Board of Directors.
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Connecticut, Rhode Island and Washington State show positive outcomes thanks to intentional implementation of paid family and medical leave benefits for workers WASHINGTON, D.C. – August 7, 2025 – A first-of-its-kind analysis conducted by the National...
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FACT SHEET | Businesses benefit when their employees have access to paid sick days. When sick workers are able to stay home to recover, it lessens the risk of contagion, making workplaces healthier and employees more productive.
FACT SHEET | Every day, millions of U.S. workers face an impossible choice when they are sick: stay home and risk their economic security or go to work and risk their health and the public’s health. The evidence is clear: When workers have access to paid sick days,...
FACT SHEET | For nearly 90 years, presidential executive orders have shaped the fight for equal employment opportunity in federal contracting. This timeline outlines the critical moments that built, expanded and ultimately eliminated Executive Order 11246.
