Stop Harassment State Network
The Stop Harassment State Network was formed in the wake of the #MeToo movement by Equal Rights Advocates, the National Women’s Law Center, and Girls for Gender Equity to provide a nationwide space for advocate organizing and information sharing. Today, the Network is a high impact collaborative campaign with over 100 state and national organizational members nationwide. Through meetings and learning sessions, the Network supports workers, students, and advocates working to enact and strengthen hundreds of policies combating harassment and gender-based violence at work and school.
The Network focuses on workplace harassment and gender-based violence issues at the state and federal level, sharing strategies and resources (including policy and litigation approaches) to support advocates working for change. We regularly feature external experts and leaders in the field to share updates in the law and innovative approaches for change. The collaboration between organizations across states dramatically increases member effectiveness nationwide. See membership list below.
Organizational Members
Current Co-Anchors:
- Equal Rights Advocates
- National Women’s Law Center
Organizational Members Include:
- Arizona Coalition to End Sexual and Domestic Violence
- 9to5, National Association of Working Women
- AAUW
- ACLU
- ACLU Illinois
- AFL-CIO
- Alianza Nacional Campesinas
- Aspen Institute
- Baltimore Corps
- Building Pathways Boston
- CAASE
- California Employment Lawyer’s Association
- California NOW
- California Women’s Law Center
- Campseinas Unite
- Centro Ya basta!
- Civic Nation
- Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights
- Collective Action DC
- Community Justice Project
- Connecticut Women’s Education and Legal Fund
- Defend Yourself
- Economic Policy Institute
- Engaging Voices/Idaho Coalition Against Sexual & Domestic Violence
- Every Voice Coalition
- Fair Employment Project
- Family Violence Law Center
- First Shift Justice
- Futures Without Violence
- Gender Justice
- George Washington Law
- Girls Inc
- Healing to Action
- Institute for Women’s Policy Research
- Jobs to Move America
- John Webbert & Young
- Justice for Migrant Women
- Kentucky Association of Sexual Assault Programs
- Know Your IX
- Labor Occupational Health Program UC Berkeley
- Ladder Consulting LLC
- Legal Aid at Work
- Legal Aid Chicago
- Legislative Agenda for Women
- Maine Coalition Against Sexual Assault
- Maine Women’s Lobby
- Maine’s Women’s Lobby & MWL Education Fund
- Maryland Center on Economic Policy
- Maryland Coalition Against Sexual Assault
- Michigan Organization on Adolescent Sexual Health
- Mid-Atlantic Equity Consortium
- Minga Strategies
- National Alliance of Domestic Workers
- National Alliance to End Sexual Violence
- National Asian Pacific Islander Women’s Forum
- National Association of Social Workers
- National Center for Youth Law
- National Council for Occupational Safety and Health
- National Domestic Workers Alliance
- National Education Association
- National Nurses United
- National Partnership for Women and Families
- National Sexual Violence Resource Center
- Network for Victim Recovery of DC
- One Fair Wage
- Our Resilience
- Oxfam America
- PB Work Solutions
- Peace First, Students Speak Up Project
- Period DC
- Prevention Action Change
- Pro Choice Maryland
- SEIU United Service Workers West
- Service Employees International Union
- Siegel Public Affairs
- Solidarity Law
- State and Local Enforcement Project at Harvard
- Survivors’ Agenda
- Survivors Know
- The Civil Rights Project
- The Every Voice Coalition
- The Fierberg National Law Group
- The Louisiana Foundation Against Sexual Assault
- The Purple Campaign
- UCLA
- University of Illinois at Chicago
- University of Illinois Springfield
- University of Iowa
- University of Miami Law
- University of Michigan
- University of Southern Maine
- Urban Institute
- USC
- Wellesley College
- Women Employed
- Women’s Law Project
- Women’s Media Center
- Worksafe
- YWCA Atlanta
Stop Harassment State Network Power Building
Recent Stop Harassment State Network Power Building Meetings
The Stop Harassment State Network is committed to robust strategy sessions critical to the work of members nationwide. Here is a sampling of topics from SHSN sessions:
- Response to Anti-DEI EOs in Employment & Education
- Discussion on Chicago Women in Trades vs. Trump et al.
- The Dismantling of the Department of Education
- The Dismantling of the EEOC’s Harassment Guidance and Strategic Enforcement Plan
- Breaking Down DOJ’s “Illegal DEI” & Federal Funding Memo
- Georgetown Workers’ Rights Institute Analysis of Legislation from 2016-2022.
- Unpacking Changes to Title IX Regs
- Improving Anti-Harassment Trainings/Education
- The Impact of Nondisclosure Agreements in Employment Contracts
- The “Severe or Pervasive Standard’/Expanding Definition of Sexual Harassment
- Stopping Sexual Harassment in Male Dominated Industries
- Discussion on Anti-SLAPP Laws & Additional Tools to Stop the Silencing of Survivors
- Presentation from Know Your IX Report- “The Cost of Reporting: Perpetrator Retaliation, Institutional Betrayal, and Student Survivor Pushout”
- Presentation on the 100 Districts report – 100 Districts. Report and student toolkit to learn about 12 comprehensive, intersectional, survivor-centered, and non-punitive policies that schools can adopt to better address sexual harassment.
- Presentation on UCLA’s #MeToo Policy Research
ERA SHSN Contact: Deborah J. Vagins, National Campaign Director, Equal Rights Advocates, [email protected]
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