Publications & Resources
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Incorporated as a non-profit on March 16, 1970, we were started by the founders and earliest members of the National Organization of Women (NOW) to help eliminate sex discrimination through legal action and education.
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Originally published in TRIAL in August 1983, this article examines how gender-based stereotype affect women litigators, who are often evaluated on sexist assumptions rather than their abilities.
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Published in The Judges Journal in 1985, this article explores three common, sexist stereotypes about women that arise in the courtroom and have the power to shape judicial decision-making.
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Our comments to the UN's Committee on the Elimanation of Discrimination Against Women offer additional measures that States Parties can undertake to better safeguard those women and girls who are most susceptible to trafficking.
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Determined the Constitutionality of the Violence Against Women Act's civil rights remedy.
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Concerned the right of a domestic violence victim to take leave from work for proceedings and medical care under California's domestic violence leave law and the Family Rights act.
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Determined the Constitutionality of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act.
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Determined the right to sue under Title VII for wrongful discharge when a woman is dismissed from employment because her batterer works in the same establishment.
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We brought a case against a school for sex discrimination when it failed to address peer-to-peer sexual harassment.
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A case that determined the right of abuse victim to leave work to obtain protection orders against an abuser.
