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New Poll: Paid Family Leave More Popular Than Pumpkin Spice Lattes

A new poll from Navigator shows that more people want paid family and medical leave than they do pumpkin spice lattes this fall. The poll, released on the first full day of fall, shows that Americans care more about caregiving than they do the popular fall drink....

Doulas Can Improve Maternal Health Yet Are Out of Reach for Most

The National Partnership for Women & Families, in collaboration with HealthConnect One, the National Health Law Program, and Tewa Women United, released today a new report, Improving Our Maternity Care Now Through Doula Support, highlighting how doula support can make...

New Report Finds States Likely to Ban Abortion Also Lack Health Care Access and Workplace Protections

In a newly released report, the National Partnership for Women & Families documents the parallels between harsh abortion restrictions and lack of access to health care and workplace supports for parents. The report, covered exclusively by Axios, finds that in many...

Abortion Exceptionalism: How the New Louisiana Law Classifying Medication Abortion as a “Controlled Substance” Compromises Health Care

On October 1, 2024, at 4:45 p.m., I frantically called my gynecologist’s office. It was only 15 minutes before they closed, but I desperately needed to speak to someone because the medication I needed to soften my cervix for Intrauterine device (IUD) insertion the...

Miscarriage Care Is Abortion Care Is Health Care

I remember it like it was yesterday. At my 10-week appointment with my OB-GYN, I was so excited to see how much my future baby had grown in the last four weeks. It had only been at my last visit a few short weeks prior that it was confirmed that after months of...

NEWS: 3 states renew their effort to reduce access to the abortion drug mifepristone

3 States Renew Their Effort To Reduce Access to the Abortion Drug Mifepristone Associated Press, October 16, 2024 Three states are renewing a legal push to restrict access to the abortion medication mifepristone, including reinstating requirements it be dispensed in...

Making a Fortune for Others: Causes and Consequences of the Black Wealth Gap

Everyone should be able to weather a financial shock -- a major illness, a layoff -- without losing their housing or falling deep into debt. Everyone should be able to afford educational opportunities for themselves or their children and be able to retire with dignity...

Women Carried the Burden of Unpaid Caregiving in 2020

More than 65 million women provide unpaid care in the form of child care, family care and eldercare during 2020. A majority of these women did so while holding full- or part-time jobs.

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