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Links
Women’s Legal Advocacy
Organizations
Other Women’s Organizations
Civil Rights Legal Organizations
Governmental Agencies
Women’s
Legal Advocacy Organizations:
National
Partnership for Women and Families
Priority Areas: Health care, work and family,
workplace fairness
NOW Legal Defense
and Education Fund
Priority Areas: Violence against women,
welfare and poverty, child care, immigrant women, workplace,
reproductive rights, education
National
Women’s Law Center
Priority Areas: Athletics, child care,
child and family support, education, employment, health, judges
and courts, reproductive rights, social security, tax, women
in the military
California Women’s
Law Center
Priority Areas: Health and reproductive
rights, violence against women, sex discrimination
Institute for
Women’s Policy Research
Priority Areas: Poverty and welfare,
family and work, employment and earnings, health care and
domestic violence, democracy and society
Asian
Immigrant Women’s Advocates
Priority Areas: Garment workers organizing
project
Center for Reproductive
Rights
Priority Areas: Reproductive Rights
National
Center for Lesbian Rights
Priority Areas: Homophobia in sports, family
law, youth project, immigration rights, elder rights, transgender
law project
Northwest Women’s
Law Center
Priority Areas: Reproduction freedom, family
law, health care, economic justice, violence against women,
children and youth, lesbian and gay rights, civil rights,
education and athletic discrimination, welfare
American
Association of University Women Legal Advocacy Fund
Priority Areas: Sex discrimination in higher
education
Other Women’s Organizations:
National
Council of Women’s Organizations
Priority Areas: Affirmative action, Equal
Rights Amendment, social security, women’s appointment project,
health
Feminist
Majority
Priority Areas: Afghan women, reproductive
rights, women in sports
National Organization
for Women
California
NOW
Priority Areas: Violence against women,
reproductive rights, women in the military, affirmative action,
economic equity
National
Committee of Pay Equity
Priority Areas: Pay equity
Amnesty
International Women’s Human Rights Program
Priority Areas: International and national
women’s human rights
Equality
Now
Priority Areas: International women’s human
rights
AFL-CIO
Working Women’s Department
Priority Areas: Labor unions
Tradeswomen,
Inc
Priority Areas: Non-traditional employment
for women
Wider Opportunities
for Women
Priority Areas: Welfare reform, self-sufficiency
standard, nontraditional occupations
Women’s Enews
An independent news service covering the issues
that are of particular concern to women.
Civil Rights Organizations:
American Civil
Liberties Union (ACLU)
ACLU
Women’s Rights Project
ACLU Northern
California
Lawyer’s Committee for
Civil Rights
Lawyer’s
Committee for Civil Rights of San Francisco Bay Area
Impact
Fund
Asian
Law Caucus
Employment
Law Center
Gender
Equity Program
Chinese for
Affirmative Action
Workplace
Fairness
Governmental Agencies:
Department
of Labor Women’s Bureau
Purpose: Promotes profitable employment
opportunities for women, enhance their skills, and improve
their working conditions; provide employer with more alternatives
to meet their labor needs; and advocate for equitable employment
standards, policies, and programs.
California
Commission on the Status of Women
Purpose: Advocates on behalf of California
women and girls with the Governor, Legislature and other public
policymakers; educates the public in the areas of economic
equity including educational equity, access to health care
including reproductive choice and violence against women.
U.S. Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
Purpose: Federal agency that enforces anti-discrimination
laws in employment, housing and public accommodations
California Department of
Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH)
Purpose: California agency that enforces
anti-discrimination laws in employment, housing and public
accommodations
U.S.
Department of Education Office of Civil Rights (OCR)
Purpose:
Federal agency that enforces anti-discrimination laws in schools.
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