Our COVID-19 Policy Brief identifies priorities for governments and recommends measures to shape a short-term response to the gendered impact of the pandemic, and to facilitate a long-term transformative agenda for inclusive gender equality.
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Our 2023 Action Agenda outlines the six key legislative priorities on which we believe we can achieve progress and on which we will focus our advocacy resources throughout the coming year: • Advancing pay equity through pay transparency • Increasing women’s economic security by increasing the minimum wage • Ensuring equality under state and Federal constitutions • Ending nonconsensual drug-testing of pregnant patients • Ensuring enforcement of Title IX for all students • Expanding employment protections for survivors
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In taking a closer look at the dress codes enforced in K-12 schools, we see that the sort of clothing and grooming standards focused on, and who is being disciplined for violating these policies, demonstrate that most are rooted in and perpetuate biases and stereotypes about gender and race. Gendered dress codes and disproportionate discipline for dress code violations deprive students—in particular girls, students of color and LGBTQ+ students—of classroom instruction and harm their social and emotional development, setting them on a course with negative consequences potentially for their l
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A legislative advocacy framework for women's economic equality and a checklist to assess progress at the local, state, and national levels.
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Are you a pregnant person seeking medical care from a hospital? Did you know that hospitals have been found to routinely drug test pregnant people without their informed consent? This could be happening to you without your knowledge and may lead to harmful consequences such as: Your children being taken away from you Invasive child welfare investigations Lost bonding time with your newborn The inability to breastfeed
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June 23rd, 2022 is the 50th Anniversary of Title IX, the landmark legislation that prohibited sex discrimination in schools that receive public funding. In recognition of this monumental anniversary, the National Coalition for Women and Girls in Education (NCWGE) released Title IX at 50. As a member of NCWGE and co-author of this report, we are proud that it both celebrates the significant progress made in the last 50 years to end sex discrimination in schools while also highlighting the work that remains to be done.
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The #MeToo movement that rose to prominence in 2017 encouraged many sexual harassment and sexual assault survivors to speak up and share their stories, many for the first time. This rise in survivors publicly voicing their experiences was met by a spike in defamation lawsuits filed both by abusers trying to further silence their victims and by survivors fighting back against harmful claims spread by their abusers in retaliation for sharing their stories.
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Guidance for women and advocates on existing legal workplace protections and resources in New York State to advance economic security for all women.
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A short history of VAWA and its various reauthorization efforts over the years to commemorate the 25th anniversary of this groundbreaking legislation.
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