News
Mar 26, 2025 |
“This latest veto by Governor Youngkin is deeply troubling and disappointing and sends a clear message about his lack of commitment to adopting concrete policies to address the real needs of families across the state. For too many families, the lack of access to caregiving supports like paid family and medical leave means that they must make impossible choices…”
Mar 24, 2025 |
A group of 22 civil rights organizations vehemently condemn President Trump’s latest memorandum. The organizations call for urgent action to defend the rule of law.
Mar 22, 2025 |
“Advocates say providing paid sick time can reduce the spread of disease. It also can improve production by cutting down on ‘presenteeism,’ or people showing up for work sick and unable to focus on their jobs, said Jessica Mason, a senior policy analyst with the National Partnership. … Mason says interest in paid leave has been building since the COVID-19 pandemic. ‘The pandemic really brought to the forefront of everyone’s mind how important paid sick leave is,’ she said.”
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.
Categories
"Because Equality" (video, 2-19, 2019)
Our mission is to improve the lives of women and families by achieving equality for all women.
Kamala Harris speaking at the National Partnership Annual Gala (Washington, DC, 2016)
NEW: Improving Our Maternity Care
Through Doula Support
Statement of Jocelyn Frye, President of the National Partnership for Women & Families WASHINGTON, D.C. – March 26, 2025 – This week, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin once more vetoed HB 2531, legislation that would have provided 12 weeks of paid family...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – March 22, 2025 – Yesterday, the White House sent a memo to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem directing the Department of Justice to pursue sanctions against lawyers and law firms that...
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...
On March 25, 2025, we commemorate Equal Pay Day, the day that marks how far into the year women must work in order to catch up with what men were paid the year before. This day brings into sharp focus the significant pay disparities women face across age groups,...
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’...
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.
