100 Years After the 19th Amendment, the Fight for Women’s Suffrage Continues
While a crucial milestone for women’s rights and progress in the United States, the 19th Amendment’s promise of suffrage a century ago still has not been fully realized.
What Women Need: An Agenda to Move Women and Families Forward
The next president should move quickly to advance key priorities for women and their families.
INTERACTIVE
Eliminating Racial Disparities in Maternal and Infant Mortality
Breadwinning Mothers Continue To Be the U.S. Norm
Transforming the Culture of Power
Paid Family and Medical Leave Must Be Comprehensive to Help Workers and Their Children
Redefining Electability
In hyperpartisan times, winning elections is all about showing up for voters and getting out the vote. Women are showing how it’s done.
10 Actions Employers Can Take To Secure Equal Pay for Black Women
Employers have a pivotal role to play in establishing pay practices within workplaces and correcting the disparities that have eroded Black women’s pay for decades.
Ensuring Domestic Violence Survivors’ Safety
Existing support systems for domestic violence survivors are proving inadequate during the pandemic and point to the need for a stronger nationwide infrastructure connecting survivors to vital supports and services.
The Basic Facts About Women in Poverty
Women, especially women of color, in the United States are more likely to live in poverty than men, and they need robust, targeted solutions to ensure their long-term economic security.
Reproductive Rights at the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court's decisions this term on reproductive health are a reminder of the need for proactive policies that protect reproductive rights.
Centering Equity in the Future-of-Work Conversation Is Critical for Women’s Progress
Employers and policymakers must take concrete steps to avoid replicating and perpetuating longstanding racial, gender, and ethnic biases in workplaces of the future to create equitable environments where women have the best chance of success.
Medicare Extra: A Tool To Improve Reproductive Health Care Access
CAP’s Medicare Extra proposal provides an opportunity for the United States to safeguard and improve access to reproductive health care.
Toward Equitable Treatments for Women’s Health During Coronavirus and Beyond
Women, especially women of color, must be included in data and clinical trials during the coronavirus pandemic and beyond.
What Women Need in Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic
Women need policy solutions for their immediate health and economic needs during the coronavirus pandemic, as well as long-term systemic change.
Valuing Women’s Caregiving During and After the Coronavirus Crisis
Working women face new caregiving challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic and need structural policy change that mitigates long-term impacts on their earnings and employment, including resources to stabilize the child care industry.
Protecting and Promoting Women’s Rights Is Key to Defeating the Coronavirus at Home and Abroad
It is critical that the United States, and other countries around the world, recognize that prioritizing women and families in coronavirus responses is key to a successful long-term recovery.
States Must Expand Telehealth To Improve Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health Care
As states grapple with the coronavirus pandemic, they must leverage telehealth technology to protect and expand access to sexual and reproductive health services, now and into the future.
On the Frontlines at Work and at Home: The Disproportionate Economic Effects of the Coronavirus Pandemic on Women of Color
Too little attention has been paid to the consequences of the escalating COVID-19 pandemic for women of color, even as it exacerbates existing disparities and further undermines their families’ economic stability and survival.
The Coronavirus Crisis Confirms That the U.S. Health Care System Fails Women
The U.S. health care system has never integrated or centered the health care needs of women, and the COVID-19 crisis is exposing these failures and harming women in the process.