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NPWF Condemns Partisan Effort To Weaken Pregnant Worker Protections

Regulations implementing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act would protect 2.8 million pregnant workers WASHINGTON, D.C. – April 26, 2024 – The National Partnership for Women & Families is calling out the recent partisan lawsuit led by 17 states to...

NPWF Releases Recommendations to End the Poverty Trap for Disabled Women

WASHINGTON, D.C. – April 26, 2024 – Today, the National Partnership for Women & Families (NPWF) announced the release of two new installments of the “Disability Economic Justice Systems Transformation Guide.” The report on wealth building, timed to...

Overtime Rule Would Put More Money in the Pockets of Working Women

Statement of Jocelyn Frye, President of the National Partnership for Women & Families WASHINGTON, D.C. – April 23, 2024 – Today, the Biden administration published a final rule to support higher pay and better work-family balance for workers by...

NEWS: The Supreme Court’s likely to make it more dangerous to be pregnant in a red state

The Supreme Court’s Likely to Make it More Dangerous to be Pregnant in a Red State Vox, April 24, 2024 A federal law requires most US hospitals to provide an abortion to patients experiencing a medical emergency if an abortion is the proper medical treatment for that...

What States Stand to Gain From a National Paid Family and Medical Leave Program

This Care Workers Recognition Month, advocates across the country are calling for action on policies that support our paid and unpaid caregivers – including paid family and medical leave. 14 states, including the District of Columbia, have already stepped up to...

Lawsuits Seek to Weaken Protections for Abortion Access in Emergencies

The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) has recently come to the forefront in the abortion fight. Enacted by Congress in 1986, EMTALA requires U.S. hospitals that receive Medicare funding to give “necessary stabilizing treatment” to people in...

Systems Transformation Guide to Disability Economic Justice: Income, Wealth Building and Basic Necessities

REPORT | This report addresses the barriers that disabled women face to building wealth, as well as put forth policy proposals that will help address these concerns.

Asian American and Pacific Islander Women and the Wage Gap

FACT SHEET | A look at the wage gap for Asian American and Pacific Islander women by ethnic subgroup, and what that gap means for them and their families.

Dobbs’ Erosion of the Health Care Workforce: Harms to Providers and Patients

ISSUE BRIEF | The Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, and extreme abortion bans and restrictions passed by states even prior to then, have had far reaching impacts on health care providers and the communities they care for.

Maternal Health

The National Partnership works to improve the quality and value of maternity care through consumer engagement and health system transformation.

Our strategy integrates a structural health equity analysis with practical solutions. Our focus is on transforming the maternity and newborn care system into one that is equitable and high-performing. And our priority is meeting the needs of childbearing families who continue to suffer the most from racial and ethnic inequities.