“I think it’s very commendable that he’s talking about and recognizing that he needs to spend time with his children,” said Vicki Shabo, vice president of the National Partnership for Women and Families. “Maybe that’s a welcome step towards having a broad national conversation that we need about the policies that all working families need.”
“This past year, in part because of heightened momentum and the emphasis that Obama has put on paid leave, we’ve seen 17 states propose legislation based on this issue,” says Vicki Shabo, vice president at the National Partnership for Women & Families.
Statement of Debra L. Ness, President, National Partnership for Women & Families
Statement of Debra L. Ness, President, National Partnership for Women & Families
Statement of Debra L. Ness, President, National Partnership for Women & Families
Since FMLA’s inception in 1993, American men and women have used it more than 200 million times, the National Partnership for Women & Families estimates.
Analysis of Just-Released Census Data Looks at Income Loss for Women Nationally and in All 50 States, as Measured by Food, Housing and Gas
New U.S. Census Bureau data released just today determined that women and their families are losing $10,672 in income every year due to the gender-based wage gap, says Debra L. Ness, President of the National Partnership for Women & Families.
Our own Debra L. Ness discusses our changing workplace culture.
Statement of Debra L. Ness, President, National Partnership for Women & Families
“The business school community was missing from the debate,” says Vicki Shabo, vice president of the National Partnership for Women & Families, the advocacy group behind the letter.
Experts like Vicki Shabo, vice president of the National Partnership for Women & Families, say universal paid leave could help change this culture. A culture in which, studies show, employers consider mothers to be less competent and less committed to their jobs, and moms receive fewer raises and promotions than childless coworkers.
Today, 203 professors from 88 business and management schools, including the nation’s most prestigious institutions, sent an unprecedented letter to Congress urging members to pass the Family And Medical Insurance Leave (FAMILY) Act – legislation that...
On the heels of President Obama’s first-ever call for a national paid family and medical leave law, more than 150 professors from the nation’s most prestigious business schools will send a historic letter to Congress urging members to pass the Family And...
Statement of Debra L. Ness, President, National Partnership for Women & Families
“This harmful gap has remained largely unchanged for the past decade,” the partnership’s president, Debra Ness, said in a statement. “Coupled with the president’s paid sick days and paid family and medical leave announcement earlier this week, this rule is further evidence that the progress working families urgently need is possible.”
Statement of Debra L. Ness, President, National Partnership for Women & Families
“The FAMILY Act would mean we could take the time we need to recover from a serious illness, take care of a loved one or welcome a new child,” writes National Partnership Vice President Vicki Shabo in this piece for Working Mother magazine.
In Comments Filed Today, Leading Women’s Group Urges Swift Implementation
Vicki Shabo, vice president at the National Partnership for Women and Families, says today’s leave policies have a socioeconomic divide. “As we saw with Netflix, sometimes companies have one set of policies for their most highly compensated … white-collar workers and then a different set of policies or no policies at all for their hourly workers or lower-skilled workers,” Shabo says