The National Partnership for Women & Families has a strong success rate of working with state and national policy makers on both sides of the aisle to develop and enact legislative initiatives. We often lead or participate in coalitions with a variety of advocates and groups to advance a legislative agenda that will help women and their families.

Some of our proudest moments have included passage of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978, the Civil Rights Act of 1991, the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, and such groundbreaking state legislation as the California Family Leave Act of 2002.

Sadly, women and families continue to be harmed by a range of work place practices and policies that are discriminatory or that make work-family balance difficult or impossible, and by practices and policies that leave millions with little or no adequate health care. The National Partnership is currently advocating for policy solutions to many of these problems at both the state and national level.

For more information about our work on legislation that helps America's women and families, please search our library.