Women spend twice as much time caregiving as men, according to the 2022 American Time Use Survey August 15 marks Moms’ Equal Pay Day: Data show that women are battling wage gap and caregiving gap, disproportionately affecting moms’ financial security WASHINGTON, D.C....
Doctors Aren’t Dummies: Support the Patient Trust Act – Huffington Post
Recently, the National Partnership for Women and Families released a report that explored the nationwide spike in laws that command doctors what to say and coerce them to administer — and bill patients for —medically unnecessary procedures.
Women and Families to Tell Lawmakers: #WEmatter
New Effort is Part of a Growing Call to Improve the Economic Security of Women and Families
Mujeres y Familias le Dirán a los Legisladores: Nosotros Importamos #WEmatter
Un Nuevo Esfuerzo es Parte de un Llamado Creciente para Mejorar la Seguridad Económica de las Mujeres y las Familias
Women’s Health Leader Applauds Obama Administration for Acting to Protect Coverage for Birth Control, Warns that Birth Control Remains Under Attack
Statement of Debra L. Ness, President, National Partnership for Women & Families
Administration moves toward new rule on contraceptives – McClatchy DC
“At this time when opponents of women’s health are taking extreme steps to deny women coverage for birth control, we applaud the Obama administration for taking steps to protect this essential coverage,” said Debra Ness, president of the National Partnership for Women & Families.
8 Out Of 10 Americans Don’t Know These Basic Facts About Abortion – ThinkProgress
For instance, according to a recent review of state laws conducted by the National Partnership for Women & Families, five states require women seeking an abortion to be notified about the false risk of breast cancer; two states force them to learn about the supposed link between abortion and suicide.
It’s a TRAP: Targeting mandatory delays, ultrasounds, and other clinic abuse – Feministe
A recent report by the National Partnership for Women & Families, aptly titled Bad Medicine, looks at laws that “undermine the high-quality, patient-centered care that health care providers and advocates strive to achieve.”
Coalition of Medical, Health, Advocacy Groups Object to Florida’s Gag Law
Today, 20 highly respected organizations that have come together to form the Coalition to Protect the Patient-Provider Relationship issued a powerful statement opposing inappropriate interference in the relationship between a patient and a health care provider. The...
Sen. Hagan pushes paid family leave – patient relationship – McClatchy DC
The United States is one of only two countries that don’t guarantee paid maternity leave. The other one is Papua New Guinea, said Victoria S. Shabo, vice president of the National Partnership for Women and Families in Washington.
Women’s Health Leader Urges Speedy Passage of Sen. Shaheen’s Access to Contraception for Servicemembers and Dependents Bill
Statement of Debra L. Ness, President, National Partnership for Women & Families
Women’s Health Leader Urges Speedy Passage of ‘Patient Trust Act,’ Introduced in Both Houses of the Pennsylvania State Legislature
Statement of Debra L. Ness, President, National Partnership for Women & Families
US the Only Developed Country Without Paid Maternity Leave – teleSUR
Vicki Shabo, Vice President at the National Partnership for Women and Families, the organization that helped create the FMLA, says if the U.S. does not pass a more comprehensive paid maternity leave plan, then it will face many consequences. “It’s not something that each family should be dealing with individually,” said Shabo. “Because it’s got consequences for the nation, it’s got consequences for the economy it’s got consequences for health and families well-being, it has consequences for businesses who are losing talented workers and facing unnecessary retention costs of turnover.”
“Outrageous and Stunning Loss for Women and the Country” as Extremists Block Senate Majority from Restoring Contraceptive Coverage
Statement of Debra L. Ness, President, National Partnership for Women & Families
New Study: Bad Medicine Laws Are Undermining Women’s Health Care Across U.S.
33 States Have Enacted Laws that Mandate How Doctors Practice Medicine and Interfere with Relationship Between Women and Their Health Care Providers
How Bad Medicine Is Sweeping The Country, One State At A Time – ThinkProgress
“Politics are taking over our exam rooms and that is a dangerous, disturbing trend,” the National Partnership’s president, Debra L. Ness, noted in a statement released to coincide with the new findings. “More and more, lawmakers across the country are enacting laws that mandate how health care providers must practice medicine.”
Map of the Day: “Bad medicine” laws undermine reproductive health care across the country – Feministing
A new report from the National Partnership for Women & Families explores the common anti-choice restrictions that are forcing doctors to choose between following the law and doing what they know is best for their patients.
An Outraged Nation Looks to Congress to Restore Women’s Birth Control Coverage; “Congress Cannot Act Quickly Enough to Right This Wrong,” Women’s Leader Says
Statement of Debra L. Ness, President, National Partnership for Women & Families
“Deeply Troubling” Supreme Court Rulings Take Country Backward, Undermine Women’s Health and Sanction Discrimination
Statement of Debra L. Ness, President, National Partnership for Women & Families
Hobby Lobby: Court boosts corporations again – BBC News’ “Echo Chambers”
Meanwhile, Debra L Ness of National Partnership for Women & Families took the opposite view: Today’s US Supreme Court rulings in the Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood Specialties Corp. cases are deeply troubling – even shocking, in that the Court is allowing some bosses to deny women coverage for something as basic as birth control.
Supreme Court gives some employers more leeway on birth control – Los Angeles Times
“Women who thought, in 2014, that their birth control coverage was secure now have to stop and consider the views of their bosses. That is truly outrageous,” said Debra L. Ness, president of the National Partnership for Women & Families.