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A Woman’s Nation Changes Everything
Women as half of all workers changes everything, and is the key piece to understanding why we are in a transformational moment.
Reproductive Roulette
Presentation from Reece Rushing shows how reproductive health is declining in the United States while dangerous chemicals are on the rise, and how we can forge a new way forward.
Future Choices
This report from Jessica Arons explores the symbiotic relationship between assisted reproductive technology and the law and implications for policy.
More than a Choice
This report presents a vision of reproductive rights that broadens the current discourse beyond the stagnant abortion debate.
Women's Health Leadership Network
The WHLN represent a new generation of leaders in the reproductive health, rights, and justice movements and is part of the Center’s efforts to cultivate and promote emerging progressive voices and visions.Other Women's Health & Rights Features
November 16, 2009
Stupak Amendment Changes Abortion Status Quo
This chart from Jessica Arons shows how current health reform bills treat abortion funding, comparing the House and Senate bills to the current law.
November 13, 2009
House Health Bill Will Help Unmarried Women
As the Senate debates health reform legislation, it should look to several provisions in the House bill that would help unmarried women, write Liz Weiss and Page Gardner.
November 10, 2009
Ask the Expert: Patching America's Leaky Pipeline in the Sciences
Mary Ann Mason talks about her new report on providing family leave policies to help keep women researchers in scientific fields.
November 10, 2009
Staying Competitive
Report from Marc Goulden, Karie Frasch, and Mary Ann Mason looks at what we can do about the lack of family responsible benefits for America's researchers.
November 6, 2009
The Recession Brings Higher Unemployment to Unmarried Women
Unmarried women are seeing higher unemployment rates, write Liz Weiss and Heather Boushey. Extensions of Recovery Act provisions in Congress can help.
November 3, 2009
A New Social Landscape
CAP brings together experts to discuss a report by Maria Shriver on women’s new economic role in society.
November 2, 2009
A Healthy Nation Starts with Equality in the Workplace
Women are poised to become half of all paid employees in the country by the end of this year, making them primary and co-breadwinners in more households than ever before. It is clear that women at all economic levels work in paid employment, either because they choose to or because they have to, and that change is here to stay.
October 28, 2009
Protecting Unmarried Women from Unscrupulous Lenders
Oversight of consumer financial products is crucial for the economic security of unmarried women, many of whom are targeted by unscrupulous lenders, writes Liz Weiss.
October 27, 2009
Unmarried and Uninsured
An issue brief from Liz Weiss, Ellen-Marie Whelan, and Jessica Arons explores the barriers single women face in the health insurance market.
September 30, 2009
Abortion Funding Fundamentals
This chart from Jessica Arons shows how current health reform bills treat abortion funding, comparing the House and Senate bills to current law.
September 29, 2009
Ask the Expert: Senator Tom Daschle on How Health Reform Helps Seniors
Senator Tom Daschle discusses how all seniors will benefit from health care reform and why we can't afford not to improve our health care system.
September 23, 2009
A Time to Be Born
Faith leaders should play a role in creating a dialogue about the use of assisted reproductive technologies, writes Dr. Kate Ott.
September 21, 2009
Ask the Expert: Health Reform Helps Women and Families
Senator Tom Daschle discusses how health care reform will help women and families, and why incremental reform won't work.
September 10, 2009
Unmarried Women Hit Hard by Poverty
New census data show that most poor adult Americans are women, and the vast majority of these women are “women on their own,” writes Liz Weiss.
September 9, 2009
Why Women Stand to Gain the Most From Health Care Reform
Women have everything to gain if meaningful health care reform succeeds and everything to lose if it fails. Why? Because the current system discriminates against women in numerous ways.
September 8, 2009
Interactive Graphic: Equal Work Without Equal Pay
Women are close to surpassing men in the U.S. workforce. But this historic shift is not evidence of workplace equality, writes Heather Boushey.
August 7, 2009
Interactive Graphic: More Families Must Rely on Women Wage Earners
The pace of job losses over the past three months has slowed, but men are still losing three-out-of-every four jobs, writes Heather Boushey.
August 3, 2009
Parenting with Dignity
CAP addresses meaningful ways to support pregnant women and new mothers in a new series.
August 3, 2009
Labor Pains
Policymakers must ensure economic security for pregnant women and new mothers, write Melissa Alpert and Alexandra Cawthorne in the first of a new series from CAP.
August 3, 2009
Ask the Expert: The Right Benefits for a Changing Workforce
Ann O'Leary discusses how the federal government can promote much-needed family-friendly workplace policies to help America's workforce.
July 30, 2009
A Taxing Problem
Last week, five pro-life Democrats, headed by Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH), sent Speaker Pelosi a letter suggesting a "common ground" solution to the abortion "roadblock" in health care reform. They proposed that insurance companies neither be required to nor prohibited from paying for abortion and that no federal subsidies be used to pay for the procedure.
July 21, 2009
Fact Sheet: Dangerous Chemicals and Declining Reproductive Health
Fact sheet shows how reproductive health has declined precipitously in the United States as chemical production has increased dramatically.
July 16, 2009
The Ledbetter Lesson
Americans--especially women--should be much more concerned about a recent line of cases dealing with civil rights and antidiscrimination laws than about Roe v. Wade argue Jessica Arons and Ian Millhiser.
June 8, 2009
Helping Breadwinners When It Can’t Wait
Heather Boushey lays out a progressive program that would guarantee Americans access to paid family and medical leave, giving a boost to workers, employers, and the economy.
June 1, 2009
Mourning Dr. George Tiller
Today we mourn the loss of Dr. George Tiller, a great progressive who was gunned down at his church Sunday morning.
May 30, 2009
Who Is Wise?
David Abromowitz responds to an attack on Sonia Sotomayor from a Princeton alumnus claiming that her nomination is another signal that the university is becoming too female.
April 30, 2009
Infographic: The Importance of Women Breadwinners
The Chrysler bankruptcy highlights layoffs among male manufacturing and retail workers, such as car salesmen, notes Heather Boushey in an analysis of recent unemployment data.
April 29, 2009
The Question of Conscience
A panel of experts joined CAP to discuss conscience or refusal clauses and how they currently do not protect patients’ consciences or rights to access care.
April 28, 2009
Slideshow: A Timeline of Federal Health Refusal Rules
This slideshow documents how health providers’ privileges have grown over time, but the Bush ruling pushes them to a frightening, new level.
April 28, 2009
Putting President Obama’s “Conscience” Proposal in Context
Bush’s sweeping midnight rule to allow health providers to deny care and information for almost any reason was a big step away from prior laws and ethical guidelines, write Jessica Arons and Sarah Dreier.
April 28, 2009
Guidelines for Resolving Conflicts of Conscience
When moral questions arise in health care, these five principles can guide caregivers in providing patients with the care they need while allowing for personal ethics.
April 27, 2009
Why Aren’t We There Yet?
An Equal Pay Day 2009 primer on the wage gap from Jessica Arons, Heather Boushey, and Lauren Smith.
April 22, 2009
Will Economic Trends Change Family Dynamics?
CAP Action's Heather Boushey testifies to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on how women's increasing role as the family breadwinner may necessitate policy changes.
April 20, 2009
Maria Shriver Discusses "A Woman's Nation" on NBC
California first lady and scion of the Kennedy political legacy Maria Shriver talks to the NBC Nightly News about why the country needs to be educated about women and the challenges they face.
April 15, 2009
A Woman's Nation
Maria Shriver, in partnership with the Center for American Progress, launches a project on the modern American woman.
March 13, 2009
Moving the Movement
Was Roe vs. Wade, once seen as a great victory for reproductive freedom, actually the beginning of the end for the women's movement?
March 9, 2009
More than Words for Women's Rights
On International Women’s Day, governments must recommit to protecting reproductive rights as human rights, writes Jacqueline Nolley Echegaray.
March 3, 2009
Encouraging Family-Friendly Workplace Policies
CAPAF Senior Economist Heather Boushey testifies before the House Committee on Education and Labor on how workplaces can help families.
February 4, 2009
Why the Fair Pay Act Isn't Enough
Pay discrimination is only a part of the problem.
January 29, 2009
President Obama Signs Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
President Obama shows his commitment to women’s rights and economic security in signing his first bill, but there is still more work to be done.
January 23, 2009
President Obama Rescinds Devastating International Family Planning Restriction
President Obama today helped women around the world by rescinding a policy that reduced access to family planning and limited free speech on abortion.
January 22, 2009
Shifting Ground
Social conservatives and progressives should concentrate on what unites us, write Jessica Arons and Shira Saperstein on the 36th anniversary of Roe v. Wade.
January 22, 2009
Equal Pay for Breadwinners
New report from Heather Boushey finds that more men are jobless while women earn less for equal work.
January 15, 2009
Six Reasons Why Equal Pay Is Still Important
The current financial crisis makes it more important than ever for Congress to guarantee that all workers receive a fair and equal wage.
January 9, 2009
House Passes Pay Equity Legislation
The Center for American Progress applauds the House of Representatives for passing the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act and the Paycheck Fairness Act today.
January 8, 2009
Fair Pay Is Critical as the Recession Deepens
Congress is taking up key equal pay legislation just when Americans need it the most, writes Heather Boushey.
January 6, 2009
Wage Gap by the Numbers
Women are still earning only 78 cents on a man’s dollar, but two bills before Congress could help narrow the gap.
December 18, 2008
Standing in the Way of Fair Pay
Jessica Arons discusses why the career wage gap matters and how to ensure equal pay for women.
December 9, 2008
Equal Benefits for Women
The Supreme Court this week will hear arguments on whether women should retroactively receive retirement benefits for pregnancy leave, write Alexandra Cawthorne and Stephanie Gross.
November 18, 2008
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