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Mar 20, 2025 |
The Administration’s ongoing obsession with attacking the Department of Education is the latest effort to undo critical tools for ensuring that educational opportunity is accessible for everyone.
Mar 20, 2025 |
The NPWF has filed an amicus brief on behalf of 25 reproductive health, civil rights, and social justice organizations in State of Tennessee et al. v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, supporting reproductive health privacy protections.
Mar 19, 2025 |
Trump-appointed Acting EEOC Chair Andrea Lucas targeted 20 law firms, demanding information about their employment practices, with a focus on each firm’s diversity practices. Lucas’ action seems designed to be an intimidation tactic, without sufficient legal authority.
Mar 10, 2025 |
“‘I think part of the reason that so many of us came to Selma is because we really draw inspiration in people who had no reason really to believe that they could get freedom,’ said Jocelyn Frye, president of the National Partnership for Women and Families. ‘They were facing what may have looked like an all-powerful force, but they had a faith and desire to work for something bigger and better, and I think we’re here because we have that same spirit.'”
Mar 10, 2025 |
“In fact, Medicaid provides health care to more than 13 million women of reproductive age (ages 19 to 49), according to the National Partnership for Women & Families.”
Mar 5, 2025 |
“Per the most recent data from the National Partnership for Women and Families made available October 2024, women were paid 75 cents to a man’s dollar in 2023 — representing a widening gender wage gap for the first time in 20 years. Make this the year you ratchet up the entitlement.”
Feb 27, 2025 |
A new analysis released today by the National Partnership for Women & Families and Justice in Aging reveals congressional plans to cut $880 billion from Medicaid spending amounts to cutting off benefits for nearly 4.8 million recipients ages 65 and older annually.
Feb 27, 2025 |
National Partnership for Women & Families condemns attempts to dismantle our government in service to billionaires and will continue to fight to ensure that the super wealthy do not destroy the democracy that we have all worked so hard to uphold.
Feb 26, 2025 |
“A 2023 study conducted by the National Partnership for Women and Families found an increase of Black and Latino women in union leadership positions. Gaines, an Atlanta resident, counts among a bevy of Black union leaders across the country who represent and advocate on behalf of a racially diverse workforce for better working conditions.”
Feb 26, 2025 |
The National Partnership for Women & Families (NPWF) released a new report on the positive impact that comprehensive paid family and medical leave laws have on workers with chronic medical conditions.
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Statement of Jocelyn Frye, President of the National Partnership for Women & Families WASHINGTON, D.C. – March 20, 2025 – “The Administration’s ongoing obsession with attacking the Department of Education is the latest effort to undo critical tools for...
Statement of Jocelyn Frye, President of the National Partnership for Women & Families WASHINGTON, D.C. – March 20, 2025 – “Today, I’m proud to announce that the National Partnership for Women & Families (NPWF) has filed an amicus brief on behalf of...
Statement of Jocelyn Frye, President of the National Partnership for Women & Families WASHINGTON, D.C. – March 19, 2025 – This week, Trump-appointed Acting EEOC Chair Andrea Lucas targeted 20 law firms, demanding information about their employment...
Texas’ First Abortion Arrests Stem From Monthlong Attorney General Investigation The Texas Tribune, March 17, 2025 Two people have been arrested and charged with performing illegal abortions at a Houston-area health clinic, the first criminal charges brought under the...
National Partnership analysis of new data released today on veterans’ employment reveals that women’s share of the veterans’ workforce has nearly doubled since 2000, reaching an all-time high of 13.8 percent in 2024. But even as women’s share of the veterans’...
Abortion Pill Prescriptions Are Now Being Tracked in Parts of the US – With Help From a Little-Known Tech Company Business Insider, March 10, 2025 Last May, Louisiana passed a law to monitor misoprostol and mifepristone, the two pills commonly used to induce...
ISSUE BRIEF | Four lawsuits from anti-abortion extremists challenging the 2024 HIPAA Privacy Rule are jeopardizing health privacy and threatening to put pregnant people at even greater risk of criminalization for their reproductive care.
REPORT | Overall, women in the United States are paid 75 cents for every dollar paid to men, and that gap is widest for women of color. This persistent, pervasive wage gap is driven in part by gender and racial discrimination, workplace harassment, job segregation and...
FACT SHEET | Women of color in the United States experience the nation's persistent and pervasive gender wage gap most severely. U.S. Census Bureau data reveal the size of that gap by race.
