Since day one, the Trump administration has unleashed an unprecedented set of attacks against women’s health, rights, and economic security—undoing decades of progress toward gender equality and costing women billions of dollars. Such attacks include policies that deny women health care access, including to abortion and contraception; weaken protections against sexual assault; threaten survivors’ safety; and undo equal pay reforms. These efforts to chip away at women’s well-being exact even greater harm on the most underserved, including Black, Latina, Indigenous, Asian American, young, disabled, and LGBTQ women.
The collapse of the child care sector and drastic reductions in school supervision hours as a result of COVID-19 could drive millions of mothers out of the paid workforce. Inaction could cost billions, undermine family economic security, and set gender equity back a generation.
The Trump administration has issued dozens of regulations that have threatened women’s progress and cost them billions—revealing a fundamental disregard for women.
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.
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.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision in the Texas v. United States health care repeal lawsuit has introduced uncertainty into the insurance market, and women’s health is at stake.
New estimates show that recent efforts to strike down the Affordable Care Act could leave millions of women and girls with preexisting conditions at risk of being charged more or denied coverage for individual insurance.
The health and rights of women and girls in U.S. immigration custody are regularly violated through inhumane treatment, including inadequate health care, neglect, and abuse.
Although sexual assault remains a pervasive issue on college campuses, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos is planning to undermine survivors through new, regressive changes to Title IX.
The Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed move to roll back crucial mercury standards threatens the health of the American public and will be harmful to women and children, especially those in marginalized communities.
Brett Kavanaugh’s embrace of Rehnquist’s hard-line views suggests a dangerous opposition to constitutional protections against sex discrimination across the board.