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Apr 24, 2026 |
“This week, the Virginia legislature gave final approval to a comprehensive paid family and medical leave program in the Commonwealth, making Virginia the 15th state, including Washington, D.C., to enact a paid leave law and marking a major step forward for working families in the state.”
Apr 22, 2026 |
“With each passing day, the Trump administration makes more evident its agenda to rewrite history, normalize racism and sexism, and target people and organizations that fight for civil rights. Its latest tactic – to pursue an indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center – is an attack against all those who strive to advance justice and help all people live free from discrimination.”
Apr 14, 2026 |
On the heels of its Spring Board meeting, and as the organization prepares to celebrate its 55th Anniversary, the National Partnership for Women & Families announced that Michele L. Jawando has joined as the newest member of its Board of Directors.
Apr 1, 2026 |
“The estimated out-of-pocket costs for most mothers are $2,700 with insurance, according to Erin McKay, managing director of health justice at the National Partnership for Women & Families. Without insurance, those costs are typically $19,000.
“McKay said the financial challenges facing parents having a child is something many families are running into.
“’Nothing in the health care system is simple. But the two main reasons that I keep coming back to with regard to the high costs of childbirth are because we are paying for care that does not improve care for moms and babies, and a scarcity of reproductive and maternal health care drives up costs,’ McKay said.”
Mar 28, 2026 |
“In 2006, 3% of women in the U.S. got care from a doula during labor, according to a survey conducted for the nonprofit Childbirth Connection, now a program of the National Partnership for Women & Families. That figure has doubled or tripled since then, researchers estimate.”
Mar 27, 2026 |
“Unlike the newly proposed benefits, FMLA’s primary purpose is job protection, allowing employees to take time off without fear of losing their jobs. Whether pay or short-term disability insurance is offered while eligible employees use FMLA varies by employer. The National Partnership for Women and Families says only about 60% of Ohioans are eligible for FMLA.
“The new bill would promise to deliver a benefit to the 77% of workers, or about 4.5 million people according to the organization, in Ohio who currently are not eligible for paid leave through their employers.
“’The lack of paid leave has devastating costs for Ohioans and their families and for the entire state’s economy by shrinking the workforce and lowering productivity, cutting workers’ incomes and harming public health amid a scarcity of reproductive and maternal health care,’ wrote the organization in February.”
Mar 25, 2026 |
“More than 6 million Black women, or 57% of Black women in the workforce, live in ‘pre-emption states,’ according to a March report from the National Partnership for Women & Families, A Better Balance and the 75 Million. This term describes states where laws on the books don’t mandate paid sick leave and bar local governments from passing their own paid sick day laws.
“‘Instead, [Black women] are being forced to shoulder caregiving and breadwinning responsibilities without the most basic workplace safeguards,’ Jocelyn Frye, president of the National Partnership for Women & Families and co-lead of The 75 Million said in a statement. Pre-emption states are harmful for Black women and harmful overall, because Black women have some of the highest rates of labor force participation in the U.S., Frye said.
“‘Black women are disproportionately suffering from a lack of access to paid sick days, and are often forced to make impossible choices between their health and paycheck as a result,’ she added.”
Mar 19, 2026 |
“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.”
Mar 19, 2026 |
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.
Mar 17, 2026 |
“’So far, 22 states and Washington, DC, have created some version of shield protections; eight of those states, including New York and California, have adopted laws that explicitly protect people who provide or facilitate abortion care via telemedicine. The laws have proven to be ‘one of the strongest tools that reproductive freedom advocates have to protect abortion access in a post-Roe reality,’ says Ashley Kurzweil, a senior policy analyst at the National Partnership for Women & Families. ‘It’s painfully obvious that anti-abortion extremists are targeting shield laws because they are working.’”
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Statement of Jocelyn Frye, President of the National Partnership for Women & Families WASHINGTON, D.C. – April 24, 2026 – “This week, the Virginia legislature gave final approval to a comprehensive paid family and medical leave program in the...
Statement of Jocelyn Frye, President of the National Partnership for Women & Families This week, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) was targeted by the Trump administration’s Department of Justice in an indictment challenging how the organization used its...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – April 14, 2025 – On the heels of its Spring board meeting, and as the organization prepares to celebrate its 55th Anniversary, the National Partnership for Women & Families announced that Michele L. Jawando has joined as the newest...
Trump Admin Wants To Test Drinking Water for Abortion and Birth Control Pills HuffPost, April 22, 2026 The Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency recommended earlier this month that states begin testing drinking water for certain forms of abortion...
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FACT SHEET | A look at the wage gap for Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander women by ethnic subgroup, and what that gap means for them and their families.
FACT SHEET | More than three million workers in the Commonwealth of Virginia would have paid family and medical leave if HB1207/SB2 is signed into law.
CHART | A detailed summary of existing family leave laws in California, New Jersey, Rhode Island, New York, D.C., Washington, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Oregon, Colorado, Maryland, Delaware, Minnesota and Maine.
