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Underpaid & overloaded: women in low-wage jobs
Type Fact Sheet or Infographic
Year 2014
Level City or Town
State(s) All States
Source National Women's Law Center
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights
This report documents the issues face by women in the the low-wage workforce. Women make up large portion of the low-wage workforce. Given their low-wages women need to work year around with a high work load. Women with college degrees, age over 50, and from minority group are more...
Stopping School Pushout for LGBTQ Girls
Type Fact Sheet or Infographic
Year 2017
Level City or Town, School Board
State(s) All States
Source National Women's Law Center
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Education
LGBTQ+ girls are more likely to experience harassment in school and feel unsafe in school. This report lists what schools can do to help LGBTQ+ girls achieve educational success....
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Still Shortchanging our youngest children: state payment rates for infant care 2018
Type Fact Sheet or Infographic
Year 2019
Level City or Town
State(s) All States
Source National Women's Law Center
Policy Areas Children & Families
The report lists the data analyzed by the state on payment rates for children care. The key findings are only a few states' paid the correct rate and tiered rates are higher than the recommendation level. More support and funding should be placed on children care by the government...
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Stopping School Pushout for Girls in Foster Care
Type Fact Sheet or Infographic
Year 2017
Level City or Town
State(s) All States
Source National Women's Law Center
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Education
This report finds that girls of color in foster care are exposed to high rates of sexual violence and early pregnancy. Additionally, frequent school changes, lack of access to early childhood education, higher discipline rates, and low achievement rates can be the barriers for education...
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Stopping School Pushout: Overview and Key Findings
Type Fact Sheet or Infographic
Year 2017
Level City or Town
State(s) All States
Source National Women's Law Center
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Education
Girls who are pregnant, have experienced homelessness, are survivors of sexual assault, are of color, or are involved in the juvenile justice system are more likely to be pushed out from school. This report outlines how schools can provide more help for these girls to complete high...
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Stopping School Pushout for Girls Who Are Homeless
Type Fact Sheet or Infographic
Year 2017
Level City or Town
State(s) All States
Source National Women's Law Center
Policy Areas Education, Economic Justice, Civil Rights
Homeless can lead to increased stress, physical and emotional issues, poor education outcomes, learning loss, low test scores, and lower graduation rates. This report outlines steps policymakers can take to break down barriers to education for homeless girls....
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States Must Close the Gap: Low-Income Women Need Health Insurance
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2014
Level City or Town
State(s) All States
Source National Women's Law Center
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Health
Millions of low-income women fall into a coverage gap of insurance. This report demonstrates the risk the coverage gap poses to low-income women's health by examining the dramatic differences in health care access and preventive services utilization between low-income women who will...
Strengthening workplace sexual harassment protections and accountability
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2018
Level City or Town
State(s) All States
Source National Women's Law Center
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights
This report finds incidence of harassment in the workplaces to be high. The government should extend protections to more employees, strengthen their ability to hold individual harassers accountable, redress harm to victims, restrict secrecy, and restore victims' voices....
Listening to workers: child care challenges in low-wage Jobs
Type Fact Sheet or Infographic
Year 2019
Level City or Town
State(s) All States
Source National Women's Law Center
Policy Areas Children & Families, Economic Justice, Civil Rights
Women are the mostly likely to be engaged in low- wage jobs. Childcare is limited by high costs, provider accessibility, lack of stable care, lack of information, and eligibility concerns. Workers report scheduling problems to be a particularly big issue. This report recommends governments...
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Let her learn: a toolkit to stop school pushout for girls of color
Type Fact Sheet or Infographic
Year 2016
Level City or Town
State(s) All States
Source National Women's Law Center
Policy Areas Education, Economic Justice, Civil Rights
This toolkit addresses unfair disciplinary practices in schools that disproportionately suspend girls of color for minor infractions. The toolkit provides guidance on evaluating school policies, advocating for changes, and offers a checklist to assess disciplinary practices. It includes...
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Stopping School Pushout for Girls Involved in the Juvenile Justice System
Type Fact Sheet or Infographic
Year 2017
Level City or Town
State(s) All States
Source National Women's Law Center
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Education
Girls involved in the juvenile justice system experience high rates of violence, poverty, sexual abuse, and stigma. This report provides policy recommendations to policymakers that can break down the barriers these girls face to getting an education....
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Stopping School Pushout for Girls Who Are Pregnant or Parenting
Type Fact Sheet or Infographic
Year 2017
Level City or Town
State(s) All States
Source National Women's Law Center
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Education
Girls who are pregnant are more likely to be pushed out of school due to discouraging environments, lack of support, punitive absence policies, need for accommodations, inaccessible homebound instructions, unequal alternatives, and lack of child care. Policymakers must take steps...
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Making Care less taxing: state Child and dependent care tax provisions.
Type Fact Sheet or Infographic
Year 2018
Level City or Town
State(s) All States
Source National Women's Law Center
Policy Areas Children & Families
Families need affordable, high-quality childcare for them to work and their children. Public investment can help families to meet the cost of the care they need, but only a limit number can access to it cuurently. Direct childcare assistance can better help the families and the state...
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Finishing last: girls of color and school sports opportunities.
Type Fact Sheet or Infographic
Year 2019
Level City or Town
State(s) All States
Source National Women's Law Center
Policy Areas Education, Economic Justice, Civil Rights
Half of the nation's public high school are either mostly white students or mostly minority students. Heavy minority school has large female opportunity gaps compared to white schools, in particular in areas like school sports. Policymakers should increase their effort to ensure equal...
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Women In Construction will breaking ground
Type Fact Sheet or Infographic
Year 2014
Level City or Town
State(s) All States
Source National Women's Law Center
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights
Women of color are severely underrepresented in construction jobs and apprenticeships. More participation in high-wage and high-skill construction jobs is important to their economic security. It also shows the growth of construction. The policymakers should support women to overcome...
Undervalued: a brief history of women's care work and child care policy in the United States
Type Fact Sheet or Infographic
Year 2019
Level City or Town
State(s) All States
Source National Women's Law Center
Policy Areas Children & Families
Childcare produces tremendous benefits for the child, the family, and society, but is currently undervalued by policy makers. Women employed in the childcare industry are living just above the poverty line. The government can increase childcare funding, improving pay of people working...
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Stopping School Pushout for Girls who have Suffered Harassment and Sexual Violence
Type Fact Sheet or Infographic
Year 2017
Level City or Town
State(s) All States
Source National Women's Law Center
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Education
Many girls who suffer from harassment struggle in school, have high rates of absence, experience exclusionary discipline, and are more likely to engage in physical fights at school. The report makes recommendations for policymakers to support these young women in pursuing their education....
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Stopping School Pushout for Girls with Disabilities
Type Fact Sheet or Infographic
Year 2017
Level City or Town
State(s) All States
Source National Women's Law Center
Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Education
Insufficient attention, disproportionate suspensions, sexual abuse and violence, and restraint and seclusion can be barriers to education for girls with disabilities. This report lists steps policymakers can take to support girls with disabilities and help them achieve the education...
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Help Parents earn while children learn: invest in child care and early learning
Type Policy Brief or Report
Year 2019
Level City or Town
State(s) All States
Source National Women's Law Center
Policy Areas Children & Families
The cost of high- quality children care is high. Even CCDBG provides support of child care, few people can access to it. The government should expand their investment in child care and increase professional development opportunities for child care and early learning workforce....
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