Action Center

Take action to support women and families using the alerts below — and from the National Women's Law Center.

President Obama: End Retaliatory Pay Secrecy Policies Among Federal Contractors

Equal Pay Day, April 9 in 2013, represents the day that the average woman's wages finally catch up to the average man's earnings from the year before. President Obama can sign an executive order on equal pay that would ensure that contractors who do business with the federal government cannot retaliate against workers who discuss their own pay. The order would affect over 20 percent of America's civilian workforce. Thank the President for his leadership on fair pay and ask him to take the next step by signing an executive order on equal pay.

Tell State Policymakers to End the Attacks on Access to Reproductive Health Care

State legislators are pulling out all the stops to chip away at access to the reproductive health care made possible by Roe v. Wade. Whether it's by passing laws to prevent women from buying health insurance to cover abortion, defunding Planned Parenthood, or requiring those seeking an abortion to undergo an unnecessary and invasive ultrasound, they all have the same purpose: making it more difficult to get and afford the critical reproductive health services we need. Tell your state policymakers to end the attacks on access to reproductive health care and to ensure that the rights affirmed by Roe v. Wade are around for generations.

Tell Congress: Make Sure Girls Get a Fair Chance in Sports

Girls across the country are still not getting equal opportunities to play sports or equal treatment when they do play. High schools provide girls with 1.3 million fewer opportunities to play sports as compared to boys. And girls often are assigned inferior facilities and game times, among other things. To make matters worse, when parents and students try to find out how their schools are allocating valuable athletic opportunities and resources, they are not able to get information. Please ask your Members of Congress to support the High School Data Transparency Act.

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