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14 Mar 2012, 9:51 am by djackson
Matsui, Senior Counsel As the Senate is poised to start the first of 17 cloture votes on district court judges, and in the midst of Women’s History Month, we over at NWLC took a mental step back to look at the big picture of women in the federal judiciary. [read post]
14 Mar 2012, 7:18 am by djackson
Posted by:  Danielle Jackson, Online Outreach Associate March 7, 2012 Enforcing Pregnancy Bias Law of 1978? [read post]
9 Mar 2012, 2:00 pm by pfurey
Posted by:  Danielle Jackson, Online Outreach Associate This week in our weekly roundup: the latest from Lilly Ledbetter, International Women’s Day, some more of the benefits of contraceptive coverage, and fair pay for home care workers. [read post]
9 Mar 2012, 12:44 pm by pfurey
Posted by:  Abby Lane, Fellow February's employment data are out and the good jobs news that started 2012 continued last month, according to NWLC's number crunching. [read post]
8 Mar 2012, 9:55 am by djackson
We at NWLC were thrilled to see that  the CRDC data has been cross tabulated by sex and race. [read post]
8 Mar 2012, 7:10 am by djackson
At a special event on CEDAW hosted by the World Bank this past Monday, at which NWLC Co-President Marcia Greenberger spoke, international women leaders emphasized the importance of CEDAW as a tool to achieve equal rights for women everywhere and how U.S. ratification of CEDAW would strengthen the effectiveness of that tool. [read post]
7 Mar 2012, 8:13 am by djackson
Posted by:  Danielle Jackson, Online Outreach Associate February 29, 2012 Blunt Amendment Debate Recalls Memories of Walmart Contraception Case, Huffington Post March 1, 2012 Romney Says He Would Oppose Blunt Bill if it ‘Prevented People from Getting Contraception’, ThinkProgress Funding for Abortions: Essential Part of Queer Life & You Can Help, Rainbow Times Pa. to consider mandating ultrasound prior to abortion, Newsworks.org Rating… [read post]
2 Mar 2012, 2:04 pm by djackson
Posted by:  Danielle Jackson, Online Outreach Associate  Happy Women’s History Month! [read post]
24 Feb 2012, 2:30 pm by djackson
Posted by:  Danielle Jackson, Online Outreach Associate Today is our last weekly roundup for February, which has been an interesting month. [read post]
17 Feb 2012, 5:12 pm by djackson
Posted by:  Danielle Jackson, Online Outreach Associate  This week’s been a tough one. [read post]
17 Feb 2012, 9:04 am by djackson
I attended a briefing on Capitol Hill presented by NWLC’s own Judy Waxman about the Blunt Amendment that may soon be voted on in the Senate. [read post]
13 Feb 2012, 8:14 am by Sam Favate
The NWLC also said the amendment undermines the basic principle of insurance, since it would let an individual claim a particular item or service is contrary to his or her religious or moral beliefs, allowing insurance not to cover it. [read post]
4 Oct 2011, 8:09 am by jarogeti
Tomorrow, the first webinar in the series will feature ACS Student Board Member Ashland Johnson (pictured), who is currently the Reproductive Law Fellow at the NWLC. [read post]
20 Jun 2011, 10:11 pm by Lovechilde
Greenberg, Co-President of the National Women's Law Center (NWLC), issued a statement that this "devastating decision undoing the rights of millions of women across the country to come together and hold their employers accountable for their discriminatory practices" has "set back efforts by a large group of women who have been fighting for ten years to challenge the discrimination they described in receiving lower pay and fewer promotions — even when the women had… [read post]
2 Mar 2011, 11:12 am
[JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the National Women's Law Center (NWLC) and 32 other organizations on Tuesday filed [brief, PDF] an amicus curiae brief in the US Supreme Court [official website], supporting a class action discrimination lawsuit filed against Wal-Mart [corporate website]. [read post]
10 Feb 2011, 10:12 am by caratuttlebell
  As Co-President of the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) Marcia D. [read post]
10 Nov 2010, 10:39 am by htnlaw
The Nation Women's Law Center (NWLC), based in Washington, D.C., filed an administrative class complaint with the U.S. [read post]