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Subscribe NowOur LM in Action Series highlights the work of our organization. This national newsletter provides an interesting and challenging look at current legal and political issues critical to the advancement of women and girls. Stay up to date with the changes that lie ahead in the struggle for women's rights.
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November 2022
- In November we launched the seventh year of our Rights Now! Peer Educator Program
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November 2022
- We celebrated our 22nd Annual Aiming High Awards Luncheon on October 19.
- Legal Momentum was delighted to honor Former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch of Paul Weiss, Kathy Ruemmler of Goldman Sachs, and Debra Perelman of Revlon.
- Also, the current Treasurer of the Legal Momentum Board of Directors, Susan B. Lindenauer, received the Lifetime Champion Award presented to her by Legal Momentum President and CEO, Carol Moody.
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November 2022
- It requires all employers with four or more employees to post a good faith salary range in advertisements for new jobs, transfers or promotion opportunities for any position that can be carried out in New York City.
- By mandating pay disclosure in job postings, this new law works to dismantle our prevailing culture of pay secrecy, which for too long has allowed gender and racial pay disparities to persist behind closed doors.
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October 2022
- On September 15th, we provided expert testimony to the NYS DOL on their Sexual Harassment Prevention Model Policy
- Our 22nd Annual Aiming High Awards Luncheon is coming up on October 19th, register now!
- Moms Equal Pay Day was September 8th and Black Women's Equal Day was September 21st, it's time for Equal Pay Now!
- We released a new version of our Working Woman's Bill of Rights on September 26th in a blog post co-written with Oxfam America
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October 2022
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October 2022
- We published a new resource, Dressed and Ready to Learn: A Resource for Students, Parents and Educators to Identify, Challenge and Change Gendered Dress Codes in K-12 Schools
- This resource aims to help students, parents and educators identify dress code provisions that perpetuate harmful biases and provides tools to advocate for and implement change.
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September 2022
- Working women are facing extraordinary challenges in the US today. But it’s not the same for everyone: from one state to the next, policies around wages, protections, and rights vary dramatically.
- Dr. Kaitlyn Henderson, Senior Research Advisor for Oxfam America’s US Domestic Policy Program, and Seher Khawaja, Legal Momentum’s Senior Attorney for Economic Empowerment, published a piece, "We Must Value and Respect Women's Work" on Oxfam's blog detailing the many ways in which women's work is undervalued in our society and how the lack of national policies and protections for working women, especially those with dual caretaking roles, prevent women from reaching full equality within our economy.
- Featured in the piece are two resources critical to advocating for more robust protections for working women: Legal Momentum’s Working Woman’s Bill of Rights and Oxfam’s Best States for Working Women Index.
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September 2022
- Join Us at the 22nd Annual Aiming High Awards Luncheon on October 19 at Cipriani Wall Street
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We are excited to honor four phenomenal women:
- Loretta E. Lynch, Former U.S Attorney General and Partner, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
- Debra G. Perelman, President & Chief Executive Officer, Revlon, Inc.
- Kathryn Ruemmler, Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel, Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
- Susan B. Lindenauer, Treasurer, Legal Momentum Board of Directors and Retired General Counsel, The Legal Aid Society – Honoree of the Lifetime Champion Award
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September 2022
- Legal Momentum revisits Harriet Pilpel's “The Fetus as Person: Possible Legal Consequences of the Hogan-Helms Amendment” and examines how the questions she raised in 1974 are coming true today with the overruling of Roe v. Wade.
- We highlight a few of her questions, with links to articles that consider these issues at length.
- We also explain what Legal Momentum is doing now that these “potential legal consequences” of fetal personhood are coming to fruition.
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August 2022
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On July 19th, Legal Momentum launched a new Reproductive Rights Resources page on our website
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On July 26th, as part of our Reproductive Justice Efforts, we published our newest resource: Drug Testing Pregnant Patients: What You Need to Know.
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July 2022
- Legal Momentum launched a new resource today: Drug Testing Pregnant Patients: What You Need to Know
- Drug Testing Pregnant Patients: What You Need to Know provides pregnant people with baseline information about the harms and potential consequences of non-consensual drug testing, their rights as a pregnant person seeking healthcare, and ways to take action if they have been subjected to this practice.
- We also created a New York specific version that includes additional rights and action items for pregnant people living in New York State.
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July 2022
- Wisconsin’s Supreme Court last week handed down a ruling interpreting an important law for criminalized sex trafficking survivors.
- Chrystul Kizer is a child sex trafficking victim who killed her trafficker in self-defense at the age of 17.
- Wisconsin’s open-ended affirmative defense statute, and its Supreme Court’s decision in Wisconsin v. Chyrstul Kizer, are important for Chrystul, for all Wisconsin trafficking survivors, and as a model for other states to emulate.
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