ADVOCACY
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American Association of
University Women
Phone: 800-326-AAUW
www.aauw.org
ACLU Women’s Rights Project
(co-founded by Ruth Bader Ginsburg)
Phone: 212-549-2500
www.aclu.org/womens-rights
Black Women United for Action
Phone: 703-922-5757
www.bwufa.org
Business and Professional Women’s Foundation
Phone: 202-293-1100
www.bpwusa.org
Coalition of Labor Union Women
Phone: 202-508-6969
www.cluw.org
Equal Employment Opportunity Center
Phone: 800-699-4000
www.eeoc.com
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Phone: 800-669-4000
www.eeoc.gov
Equal Rights Advocates
Advice and Counseling Hotline:
800-839-4ERA (4372).
The hotline provides advice on differential treatment of women and girls at work or school, unequal pay, pregnancy discrimination, family leave, and sexual harassment.
www.equalrights.org
Federally Employed Women
Phone: 402-898-0994
www.few.org
Feminist Majority Foundation
Phone: 703-522-2214
www.feminist.org
General Federation of Women’s Clubs
Phone: 202-347-3168
www.gfwc.org
MANA, A National Latina Organization
Phone: 202-833-0060
www.hermana.org
Moms Rising
www.momsrising.org
National Association of Commissions for Women
Phone: 505-681-8629
www.nacw.org
National Committee on Pay Equity
Phone: 703-920-2010
www.pay-equity.org
National Council of Jewish Women
Phone: 202-296-2588
(Washington, D.C., office);
212-645-4048 (New York City headquarters)
www.ncjw.org
National Congress of Black Women
Phone: 202-678-6788
www.nationalcongressbw.org
National Council of Negro Women
Phone: 202-737-0120
www.ncnw.org
National Council of Women’s Organizations
Phone: 202-293-4505
www.womensorganizations.org
National Organization for Women
Phone: 202-628-8669
www.now.org
National Partnership for Women and Families
Phone: 202-986-2600
www.nationalpartnership.org
National Women’s Political Caucus
Phone: 202-785-1100
www.nwpc.org
Phone: 414-274-0925; Job Survival
Helpline: 800-522-0925 and
mailto:hotline@9to5.org.
The hotline provides information on sexual harassment, family leave, pregnancy discrimination, and other employment issues.
www.9to5.org
Nontraditional Employment for Women
Phone: 212-627-6252
www.new-nyc.org
OWL: The Voice of Midlife and Older Women
Phone: 877-653-7966
www.owl-national.org
The Wage Project
www.wageproject.org
Wider Opportunities for Women
Phone: 202-464-1596
www.wowonline.com
Women Employed
Phone: 312-782-3902
Women Employed provides telephone counseling to women facing employment problems
Friday 10 A.M.–12 P.M. (CT).
www.womenemployed.org
Women Work! The National Network for Women’s Employment
Phone: 412-281-9240;
866-PAWOMEN (729-6636)
www.womenwork.org
YWCA USA
Phone: 202-467-0801
www.ywca.org
LEGAL
National Women’s Law Center
Phone: 202-588-5180
www.nwlc.org
Women’s Law and Policy Project/Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law
Phone: 312-263-3830
www.povertylaw.org
SUPREME COURT DECISIONS
Oyez Project
www.oyez.com
PROFESSIONAL
National Association for Female Executives
Phone: 212-351-6451
www.nafe.com
U.S. Women’s Chamber of Commerce
Phone: 888-41-USWCC
www.uswcc.org
RESEARCH
Catalyst
Phone: 212-514-7600
www.catalyst.org
Cornell University Institute for Women & Work
Phone: 212-340-2836
www.ilr.cornell.edu/iww
Institute for Women’s Policy Research
Phone: 202-785-5100
www.iwpr.org
National Council for Research on Women
Phone: 212-785-7335
www.ncrw.org
FURTHER READING
Brzezinski, Mika. Knowing Your Value: Women, Money, and Getting What You’re Worth. New York: Weinstein Books, 2010.
Burk, Martha. Cult of Power: Sex Discrimination in Corporate America and What We Can Do About It. New York: Scribner, 2005.
———. Your Money and Your Life: The High Stakes for Women Voters in ’08 and Beyond. Austin: A.U. Publishing, 2008.
Collins, Gail. When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2009.
Greenhouse, Linda. “Justices Limit Discrimination Suits over Pay.” New York Times, May 29, 2007.
Murphy, Evelyn, with E. J. Graff. Getting Even: Why Women Don’t Get Paid Like Men—and What to Do About It. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I NEVER COULD have made this journey alone, a journey that began in rural Alabama in one of the poorest counties in the country and led me to the Supreme Court, on to Congress, and all the way to the White House. Countless individuals and organizations contributed to the successful passage of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act in January 2009. Individuals committed to pay equity—both women and men, young and old, rich and poor—supported me on my long journey. Legal, political, nonprofit, business, and professional groups provided the practical guidance and financial means to sustain this endeavor I’d embarked upon. Without so many passionate people, my story would have had a very different ending. To all, I am most thankful and forever grateful.