{"id":46811,"date":"2022-02-15T18:19:15","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T23:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aclu.org\/issues\/womens-rights"},"modified":"2025-06-17T14:41:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T18:41:11","slug":"womens-rights","status":"publish","type":"issue","link":"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/issues\/womens-rights","title":{"rendered":"Women's Rights"},"parent":0,"menu_order":245,"template":"","class_list":["post-46811","issue","type-issue","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"featured-image":210590,"intro":"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.","what-you-need-to-know":[{"highlighted":"78 cents ","description":"Women still make just 78 cents for every dollar earned by men. Black women earn only 64 cents and Latinas only 54 cents for each dollar earned by white men."},{"highlighted":"1 in 4","description":"The U.S. Department of Justice reports that approximately one in four homeless women is homeless because of violence committed against her."},{"highlighted":"Over 1,000 ","description":"Over 1,000 public K-12 schools in the United States have single-sex education programs. Many rely on discredited science and gender stereotypes."}],"promo":{"description":"","button":"","url":""},"faq":{"description":"","faq-items":null},"featured-stories":[{"image":210594,"title":"ACLU Vision for Achieving Gender Justice","content-type":"resource","last-updated":"20190118","description":" ","url":"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/issues\/womens-rights\/aclu-vision-achieving-gender-justice"}],"latest-stories":null,"whats-at-stake":{"title":"What's at Stake","description":"A look back at history shows that women have made great strides in the fight for equality, including women\u2019s suffrage and inroads in equal opportunity in the workplace and education.\r\n\r\nDespite the tremendous progress made in the struggle for gender equality, women still face violence, discrimination, and institutional barriers to equal participation in society.\r\n\r\nThrough litigation, advocacy, and public education, the ACLU Women\u2019s Rights Project pushes for change and systemic reform in institutions that perpetuate discrimination against women, focusing its work in the areas of employment, violence against women, and education.\r\n\r\nIn the employment realm, laws and workplace policies that exclude women from certain job sectors and allow them to be forced out of the workplace when they become pregnant or return to work after having a baby cause persistent disparities in women\u2019s income, wealth, and economic security.\r\n\r\nSurvivors of gender-based violence face discrimination when police, schools, landlords, and other institutions fail to adequately address and prevent violence and also when laws and policies penalize them, impeding the ability of women and girls to live safely and with dignity.\r\n\r\nIn the education sector, many public schools have introduced programs based on unfounded stereotypes about the learning abilities and preferences of boys and girls, limiting equal educational opportunities for all."},"actions":"","drupal-id":193,"is_hidden_issue":""},"yoast_head":"\nAmerican Civil Liberties Union<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"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.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Women's Rights | American Civil Liberties Union\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"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.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/issues\/womens-rights\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"American Civil Liberties Union\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-06-17T18:41:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@aclu\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/issues\/womens-rights\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/issues\/womens-rights\",\"name\":\"Women's Rights | American Civil Liberties Union\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2022-02-15T23:19:15+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-06-17T18:41:11+00:00\",\"description\":\"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.\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/issues\/womens-rights\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/\",\"name\":\"American Civil Liberties Union\",\"description\":\"The ACLU dares to create a more perfect union \u2014 beyond one person, party, or side. Our mission is to realize this promise of the United States Constitution for all and expand the reach of its guarantees.\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"American Civil Liberties Union","description":"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.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Women's Rights | American Civil Liberties Union","og_description":"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.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/issues\/womens-rights","og_site_name":"American Civil Liberties Union","article_modified_time":"2025-06-17T18:41:11+00:00","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_site":"@aclu","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/issues\/womens-rights","url":"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/issues\/womens-rights","name":"Women's Rights | American Civil Liberties Union","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/#website"},"datePublished":"2022-02-15T23:19:15+00:00","dateModified":"2025-06-17T18:41:11+00:00","description":"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.","inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/issues\/womens-rights"]}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/","name":"American Civil Liberties Union","description":"The ACLU dares to create a more perfect union \u2014 beyond one person, party, or side. Our mission is to realize this promise of the United States Constitution for all and expand the reach of its guarantees.","inLanguage":"en-US"}]}},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"American Civil Liberties Union","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/www.aclu.org","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue\/46811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/issue"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue\/46811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210589,"href":"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue\/46811\/revisions\/210589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}