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93 Years of Women Voting: Are We Using This Right to Drive the Change We Need?
By Kate Michelman and Carol Tracy, Co-Chairs of WomenVote PA It's hard to believe women only gained the right to vote 93 years ago today. That's when the 19th Amendment -- which prohibits any U.S. citizen from being denied the right to vote -- was ratified. The demand...
Women’s Law Project and ACLU fight for domestic partner benefits for Pittsburgh teacher
By Susan Frietsche, WLP Senior Staff Attorney The Women’s Law Project has teamed up with the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania and Pittsburgh attorney Fred Goldsmith to challenge the refusal of the Allegheny Intermediate Unit (AIU) to provide domestic...
The Wage Gap Starts in Childhood
Aly Mance, WLP Intern Parents do their best to be good role models for their children; and for generations, they have given their children chores to do in exchange for an allowance in order to teach them responsibility and work ethic. Sadly though, at a very young...
Reproductive Injustice Compensated in North Carolina
By Aly Mance, WLP Intern North Carolina lawmakers decided last week that compensation will be paid to the victims of the state’s past eugenics program, run between 1929 and 1974. Eugenics is the belief that the human species can be improved by discouraging those...
New study debunks myths about post-abortion emotions
By Hillary Scrivani, WLP Legal Intern Some anti-choice groups are notorious for spreading lies about abortion in an effort to deter women from making informed medical decisions about their reproductive health. Some of these lies include exaggerating or outright...