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Expanding the Possibilities, 2013-2014 EXPANDING THE POSSIBILITIES ANNUAL REPORT 2013-2014 NATIONAL WOMEN’S LAW CENTER ABOUT THE CENTER The Center has been expanding the possibilities for women and their families for over 40 years, yet the Center’s mission is far from complete. Many women don’t get equal pay for equal work. High-quality affordable child care remains beyond the reach of millions of families. Title IX’s promise of educational opportunity has not been realized for every girl and woman. Reproductive health care is at great risk. And women of all ages are more likely than men to be poor. The Center is committed to taking on the toughest challenges ahead, to secure past gains and to advance equality and opportunity for women and their families. N W L TABLE OF CONTENTS C Message from the co-presidents and chair 2 Promoting a bold vision to make women and families more economically secure 4 Dismantling barriers women face in the workplace 6 Protecting girls and young women in school with Title IX 8 Defending and securing women’s access to comprehensive health care and reproductive rights 10 Building a diverse judiciary and pursuing justice for women 12 A tribute to Brooksley Born 14 Center supporters 15 Statement of activities and statement of financial position 20 Board of directors 22 Center staff 23 CO-PRESIDENTS &BOARD CHAIR ADVANCING women for the same work, and stubborn EQUALITY AND efforts to roll back everything from Social Security benefits to the new Affordable OPPORTUNITY Care Act, also known as Obamacare. FOR WOMEN However, the Center played a key role Expanding and protecting women’s in securing significant gains for economic equality has never been achieved security, equality, and justice for women without difficult challenges. Every year and their families, particularly in the since the National Women’s Law Center workplace. To highlight a few: President was founded, the Center has faced Obama issued Executive Orders opportunities to make progress and strengthening equal pay protections challenges to overcome. That was no and increasing wage transparency by less true for the fiscal year covered by employers doing business with the this report, July 2013 through June 2014, federal government and raising the when the Center confronted fierce attacks minimum wage for workers on new on women’s reproductive health care, federal contracts. Working on several employers who pay wages that leave state advocacy campaigns, the Center women and families struggling to make celebrated important increases in the ends meet or who pay men more than minimum wage. 2 CO-PRESIDENTS The Center also made progress in helping families access to reproductive health care, the Center, pay for child care and early learning in the form working with local advocates in several states, of major new investments in the 2014 federal stopped some of the extreme bans on later &BOARD spending bill and significant movement toward abortion and measures that would have shut the first reauthorization of the Child Care and down abortion clinics. Development Block Grant in almost two decades, The Center was a leader in coalitions that which occurred in late 2014. secured these accomplishments and many CHAIR Women don’t just face low wages or unequal more, and remains a focused champion on the pay that make it difficult to support themselves major issues that affect women’s ability to lead and their families. All too often, employers force economically secure and productive lives. pregnant women onto unpaid leave or fire them In the year ahead, the Center will continue its outright instead of making the same temporary work to raise the minimum wage, close the wage accommodations for them that they make for gap, protect and expand women’s access to the other workers with health needs. The Center full range of needed health care, make campuses successfully worked in five states and the District safe and schools work for all our daughters, of Columbia, which said “enough” and passed mothers, and sisters, and so much more. laws protecting pregnant workers, and the federal government issued guidance underscoring This work is made possible by the Center’s employers’ obligations to ensure that pregnancy individual and institutional donors, whose doesn’t cost women their jobs. support makes a tangible difference in the lives of women and families, especially those Women need access to quality health care, and most in need. especially reproductive health care, in order to be able to stay healthy, care for their families Brooksley Born Board Chair and earn a paycheck. This year, the Center participated in major outreach efforts, and more Nancy Duff Campbell than four million women obtained health care Marcia D. Greenberger coverage under Obamacare. And while many Co-Presidents states continued their assaults on women’s The gains for women since the Center’s founding are due in no small measure to the leadership of Brooksley Born, the Center’s longtime Board Chair who retired her chair’s gavel (but not her service on the Board) in June 2014; please turn to page 14 for more on Brooksley’s tenure. The Center looks forward to the leadership of Brooksley’s successor as Chair, Jane Sherburne, in the years ahead. 3 origin, women make up larger shares PROMOTING of the low-wage workforce than do their A BOLD VISION male counterparts. The overrepresentation of women in TO MAKE low-wage jobs can cause great hardship. WOMEN AND Women are primary breadwinners in more than 40 percent of families with children, FAMILIES MORE and low-wage jobs don’t pay enough to support a family. Women bear the majority ECONOMICALLY of caregiving responsibilities, and the SECURE characteristics of low-wage jobs—such as a lack of benefits—pose particular Even with better academic credentials than challenges to women as both breadwinners ever before, women are at greater risk of and caregivers. A disproportionate share poverty than men, and the job and income of women’s job gains in the last five years prospects for many remain bleak. Women has been in low-wage jobs, a trend that make up two-thirds of workers in low-wage is likely to continue. jobs, although they make up slightly less The Center advanced a comprehensive than half of the workforce. And, regardless agenda to help make women and their of their education level, age, marital or families more economically secure, parental status, race, ethnicity, or national 4 including by raising the minimum wage, Working Families, releasing reports, advising expanding access to high-quality, affordable policymakers and mobilizing supporters. child care and early learning programs, HIGHLIGHTED THE CHILD CARE CHALLENGES highlighting the child care challenges faced FACED BY PARENTS WORKING IN LOW-WAGE by parents working in low-wage jobs, and JOBS in a new report, Listening to Workers: protecting and strengthening Social Security. Child Care Challenges in Low-Wage Jobs, THE CENTER: produced in collaboration with the HELPED WIN MINIMUM WAGE INCREASES Ms. Foundation and six through a Presidential Executive Order raising worker justice groups, the minimum wage for workers on new federal and launched a new contracts and legislation in Hawaii, Maryland, project in partnership Minnesota, and West Virginia by analyzing and with additional worker disseminating new data, producing state-specific justice groups to iden- materials and infographics highlighting the tify workers’ complex MORE THAN needs, the barriers to 1 IN 4 WORKING MOTHERS impact of a higher minimum wage on women, WOULD GET A RAISE IF and making a higher wage a fair pay issue. This their employment and THE FEDERAL MINIMUM WAGE INCREASED TO $12 BY 2020. effort included work with grassroots worker their children’s school readiness, and the child Note: “Working mothers” refers to women justice groups and national and state coalitions, with children under 18 in the paid workforce. providing testimony to state legislatures, care, early education, organizing congressional briefings, and and workplace policy changes needed to educating the public, Administration and state promote both parents’ and children’s success. officials and lawmakers about what is at stake ADVANCED THE EFFORT TO IMPROVE, NOT for women and families. CUT, SOCIAL SECURITY by conducting research SECURED NEARLY $1.5 BILLION IN NEW on extreme poverty among older women that INVESTMENTS IN CHILD CARE AND EARLY led to a New York Times editorial citing this LEARNING in the federal spending bill for Fiscal ground-breaking research, testifying before Year 2014 and worked to secure passage of Congress to underscore the need to bolster Social the first reauthorization of the Child Care and Security benefits to reduce poverty among older Development Block Grant in nearly 20 years, women and providing technical assistance to which will improve health and safety standards several lawmakers who introduced legislation to of child care facilities, make it easier for families improve benefits. The Center also developed to pay for child care, and support training and and broadly disseminated user-friendly materials professional development of child care explaining how women can make the most providers. The Center did this through sustained of their Social Security benefits and retirement leadership of the Strong Start for Children savings. campaign and its nearly 400 organizational partners and by organizing high-profile events, presenting at the White House Summit on 5 workers still face discrimination —from DISMANTLING diminished responsibilities to losing their jobs altogether—when they ask for BARRIERS temporary accommodations such as a WOMEN lifting restriction. And women in low-wage industries are too often forced to upend FACE IN THE their lives due to unfair scheduling practices, which causes economic and WORKPLACE emotional hardship for them and their The American economy has been in families. recovery—which means more jobs for The Center focused its approach to women and their families.
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