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WLP Applauds New Title IX Guidelines
PENNSYLVANIA - Today, fifty years to the day Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972 was passed into law, the U.S. Department of Education issued new proposed rules governing how schools that receive federal funding must respond to sex-based discrimination....
WLP Launches Program to Help Pennsylvanians Facing Pregnancy & Lactation Discrimination
Women’s Law Project, a state-based public interest legal organization focused on gender justice with offices in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, announces a new program to help pregnant and lactating people in Pennsylvania navigate workplace and school-based...
LGBTQIA+ Equal Pay Awareness Day
June 15 marks LGBTQIA+ Equal Pay Awareness Day. This day is an opportunity to spread awareness about wage gap data on LGBTQIA+ workers, as well as the general disparities that continue to affect the LGBTQIA+ communities. LGBTQ+ workers are paid approximately 90 cents...
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[Action Alert] June in Harrisburg: Banning Abortion & Bullying Trans Kids
Pennsylvania has the lowest minimum wage and one of the highest rates of pregnancy discrimination complaints in the country, and a bill to provide reasonable accommodations for lactating employees so they can continue breastfeeding after returning to work is still...
We’re Calling for an Investigation
Fifty years into Title IX, achieving equitable opportunity for education remains a huge challenge. Laws are passed but then not uniformly enforced. Policies are clarified only to discover some school administrations learn how to strategically skirt mandates and...
