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Women's Rights. Today, gender bias continues to create huge barriers for many women. Ongoing struggles include ensuring equal economic opportunities, educational equity, and an end to gender-based violence.
Women's Rights. Today, gender bias continues to create huge barriers for many women. Ongoing struggles include ensuring equal economic opportunities, educational equity, and an end to gender-based violence. Learn more.
The ACLU works to end wage discrimination in the workplace and ensure that all workers—regardless of sex, race, national origin, age, or disability—are able to bring home every dollar they rightfully earn.
One hundred years ago this month, the Nineteenth Amendment became part of the U.S. Constitution, giving women the right to vote in the single largest voting rights expansion in our nation’s history.
Since the enactment of Title IX in 1972, federal law has guaranteed the right to education free from sex discrimination, and since then women and girls have made great strides toward achieving equality.
Nearly 1 in 3 women will have an abortion in her lifetime. Six out of every 10 women who have abortions are already mothers. Sign our pledge to commit to being a defender of abortion rights, and to take further action.
The ACLU Women's Rights Project has compiled a timeline of major Supreme Court decisions on women's rights.
Women's Rights Systemic Equality Since our nation’s founding, discriminatory policies and laws have created an unequal system in which Black communities have had their civil rights and liberties denied and have been systemically locked out of opportunities in education, housing, employment, and more.
Women and girls experience domestic violence and sexual assault at alarming rates. Governments, institutions, laws, and policies contribute to the systematic devaluation of the lives and safety of women and girls by failing to respond to gender-based violence and discriminating against those subjected to such violence.
CRIMINAL AND JUVENILE JUSTICE. > Fact Sheet: The Over-Incarceration of Women in the U.S. > Fact Sheet: Women in Prison, the Link Between Incarceration and Violence, and the Collateral Consequences of Conviction. > Report: A Blueprint for Meeting the Needs of Girls in TYC Custody.