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The ACLU's Women's Rights Project was co-founded in 1972 by Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Through litigation, community outreach, advocacy and public education, WRP empowers poor women, women of color and immigrant women who have been victimized by gender bias and face pervasive barriers to equality. Learn more about the WRP.


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Comprehensive List of Women's Rights Resources

GENERAL
> Project Reports: 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003
> ACLU Freedom Files: Women's Rights
> Tribute: The Legacy Of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
> Aryeh Neier: Reflections on Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Leadership of the ACLU Women's Rights Project
> Timeline of Major Supreme Court Decisions on Women's Rights
> The ACLU and Women's Rights: Our Past Successes and Future Challenges (Sample Speech by Emily Martin)
> Women's Equality Day and the 19th Amendment (Speech by Nadine Strossen)

VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
> Pamphlet: Know Your Housing Rights: For Survivors of Domestic Violence (available in English and Spanish)
> Fact Sheet: Housing Discrimination and Domestic Violence (available in English and Spanish)
> Fact Sheet: The Rights of Domestic Violence Survivors in Public and Subsidized Housing (available in English and Spanish)
> Fact Sheet: Domestic Violence and Homelessness (available in English and Spanish)
> Fact Sheet: Domestic Violence: Protective Orders and the Role of Police Enforcement
> Model advocacy letter to Public Housing Authority
> Petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Alleging Violations of the Human Rights of Jessica Gonzales by the United States of America and the State of Colorado (for background information on police failure to enforce domestic violence laws in the United States)

EMPLOYMENT
> Fact Sheet: Human Trafficking: Modern Enslavement of Immigrant Women in the United States
> Fact Sheet: Trafficking and Exploitation of Migrant Domestic Workers by Diplomats and Staff of International Organizations in the United States
> Fact Sheet: Trapped in the Home: Global Trafficking and Exploitation of Migrant Domestic Workers
> Petition to the Inter-American Commission on Behalf of Domestic Workers
> Domestic Workers Abused by Diplomats - Case Summaries
> Petition to the Inter-American Commission on Behalf of Undocumented Workers
> Pamphlet: Rights of Women Workers (available in English and Spanish)

CRIMINAL AND JUVENILE JUSTICE
> Facts about the Over-Incarceration of Women in the U.S.
> Report: A Blueprint for Meeting the Needs of Girls in TYC Custody
> Report: Custody and Control: Conditions of Confinement In New York's Juvenile Prisons for Girls
> Fact Sheet: Custody and Control: Girls in the Juvenile Justice System
> Caught in the Net: The Impact of Drug Policies on Women and Families

EDUCATION
> Fact Sheet: Sex Segregated Schools: Just the Facts
> Fact Sheet: Boys' Brains vs. Girls' Brains: What Sex Segregation Teaches Students
> "Venus and Mars in Separate Classrooms? A Report on the Rise of Single-Sex Education in Florida and Around the Country"
> USA Today Guest Editorial, "Bad for Both Boys and Girls" (by Emily Martin and Katie Schwartzmann)
> ACLU Comments on the U.S. Department of Education's Proposed Regulations on Single-Sex Education (for background information on single-sex research and the law's requirements)

If you would like to request materials or for more information, contact the Women's Rights Project.

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