National Partnership calls out recent effort to downplay U.S. maternal mortality crisis WASHINGTON, D.C. – March 18, 2024 – In case you missed it, the National Partnership for Women & Families is pushing back on a study released last week claiming that...
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Too many Black women are dying in pregnancy and childbirth. We need systemic change to end this crisis and ensure communities are healthier and more responsive to Black women’s needs.
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Every person should have the freedom to decide if, when, and how to raise a family. But many people in the United States face limits on this freedom – especially women of color, women with disabilities or with low incomes, transgender and nonbinary people, and those who are multiply marginalized. They face threats on all fronts when it comes to abortion access and policies necessary to thrive.
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ICYMI: Maternal Health Crisis is Real and Especially Dangerous for Women of Color
The National Partnership calls out the recent effort to downplay U.S. maternal mortality crisis.
President’s Budget Delivers National Paid Leave and Critical Investments for Working Families
The National Partnership for Women & Families praised the critical investments to support working families in President Biden’s recently announced FY2025 budget proposal.
New EEOC Pay Data Collection Tool Is Critical to Helping Close the Wage Gap
Today, as we mark Equal Pay Day, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced a new tool to allow the public to access pay data, an effort that expands on the Biden administration’s goals of increasing pay transparency in order to close the wage gap.
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NEWS: Historic abortion clinic visit by Vice President Harris
Vice President Harris is visiting an abortion clinic in Minnesota on Thursday — an extraordinary stop meant to signal the importance the Biden campaign is placing on reproductive rights in the 2024 presidential race.
We analyzed 46 years of consumer sentiment data – and found that today’s ‘vibecession’ is just men starting to feel as bad about the economy as women historically have
Of the numerous economic trends filling column inches over the last few years, few have gained as much traction as the “vibecession.” But whose feelings have been driving the vibecession in the first place? In a word, men’s.
Setting the Record Straight: The Truth About the Wage Gap
In 2019, a poll revealed that nearly half of men believe that the wage gap is “made up.” It’s time to set the record straight.