Resources for women and their allies.
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is responsible for enforcing federal laws that make it illegal to discriminate against a job applicant or an employee because of the person's race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, transgender status, and sexual orientation), national origin, age (40 or older), disability or genetic information.
The laws apply to all types of work situations, including hiring, firing, promotions, harassment, training, wages, and benefits.
https://www.eeoc.gov/
State by State Guide to Local Discrimination Commissions
Each state has its own division charged with protecting the civil rights of the state's residents. These commissions typically work to eliminate cases of discrimination by enforcing the state's civil rights laws. That can include discrimination in housing, employment, places of public accommodation, and more. Find the link to your state to learn more about your division's work.
https://civilrights.findlaw.com/enforcing-your-civil-rights/state-civil-rights-offices.html
Legal Momentum: The Women’s Legal Defense and Education Fund
The nation's first and oldest legal defense and education fund for women, Legal Momentum’s mission is focused on ensuring economic and personal security for all women and girls by advancing equity in education, the workplace, and the courts.
Legal Momentum handles a range of issues related to the rights of women and girls and gender inequality, including sexual assault, domestic violence, sex discrimination in education, and sex discrimination in employment, such as sexual harassment, pregnancy and care-giving discrimination.
Legal Momentum maintains a national helpline, which can be reached at (971) 353-4251.
https://www.legalmomentum.org/
The TIME’S UP Legal Defense Fund™ supports individuals who’ve experienced sexual harassment or retaliation at work to come forward to seek justice — and to protect others from similar behavior.
https://timesupfoundation.org/work/times-up-legal-defense-fund/
The Gender Equality Law Center advances laws and policies that promote gender justice and racial equity in all aspects of public and private life. Using an intersectional lens, they break down barriers that limit opportunities for low-income women, LGBTQ, and gender non-conforming individuals on the basis of gender and/or sexual orientation as well those created by institutionalized discrimination and stereotyping.
GELC maintains a national helpline, which can be reached at 1-888-833-4363.
https://www.genderequalitylaw.org/
The goal of A Better Balance is to make our society more hospitable to families by promoting and supporting policies that would allow parents to remain in the workforce without compromising the well being of their families. They seek to reduce the stress of conflicting work-family demands and responsibilities and end discrimination against workers who care for their children or other family members. In addition, they will promote greater equality by reducing the wage gap between men and women with family responsibilities and encouraging men to take on a greater share of care work. Likewise, they will ensure that the work of providing care in the home, whether by family members or by professionals, is valued.
A Better Balance maintains a national work-family legal helpline, which can be reached at 1-833-633-3222.
https://www.abetterbalance.org/
MomsRising is a group of over a million members that takes on the most critical issues facing women, mothers, and families by educating the public and mobilizing massive grassroots actions to:
Bring the voices and real world experiences of women and mothers straight to our local, state, and nation's leaders;
Amplify women's voices and policy issues in the national dialogue & in the media across all platforms;
Accelerate grassroots impact on Capitol Hill and at state capitols across the country;
Hold corporations accountable for fair treatment of women and mothers & for ensuring the safety of their products.
www.momsrising.org/