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WLP Assisting Pittsburgh to Develop “Paid Safe Leave” Policy for Victims of Domestic Violence
Pittsburgh mayor Bill Peduto signed an executive order directing the city’s Department of Human Resources and Civil Service to develop a policy to provide non-union employees “paid safe leave” to ensure domestic violence victims can get paid time off to obtain...
Read Our Comments Opposing Radical Expansion of “Conscience-Based” Exceptions to Evidence-Based Healthcare
In January, the Trump administration proposed a new rule that would seriously compromise access to evidence-based healthcare and medicine for women by broadly expanding “conscience-based” objections to providing it. The new rule would affect as many as 745,000...
Know Your Rights: How to File a Title IX Complaint for Students in K-12 Schools
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 was designed to eliminate sex discrimination in schools and education programs. Many people associate Title IX with female athletes, because of the great strides made toward gender equity in athletic opportunities in...
Read the Letter We Signed Asking Betsy DeVos to Protect Vulnerable Students by Preserving the School Discipline Guidance
The Women’s Law Project proudly signed a letter asking the Trump Administration to help protect vulnerable students by preserving a 2014 guidance that emphasized treating all children fairly, regardless of race and other factors. In 2014, the U.S. Department of...
Abortion in the U.S. is Safe
A new study by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine confirmed previous research and data in finding that abortion in the United States is safe and has rare complications. From NPR: The report, called "The Safety and Quality of Abortion Care in...
