About Us

Why We Exist

Across the United States, women’s rights are shifting—state by state, law by law. From healthcare and pay equity to safety and representation, the landscape is changing faster than most people can track.

The Women’s Rights Data Initiative (WRDI) exists to help women and their allies understand what’s happening to their rights—clearly, confidently, and in one place—so they can decide what’s worth protecting.

Our goal is simple: when you know what’s actually happening in your state, around the issues you care about, confidence increases. And when confidence is higher, there are fewer barriers to engaging—whether that means having a conversation, sharing information, or taking action in ways that fit your life.

What We Do

WRDI is a fact-based information hub that tracks women’s rights policies across states and issues. We focus on clarity, consistency, and context—so people can understand what has changed, what it means, and how it affects real life.

We:

• Analyze and translate complex legislation into plain and practical language.
• Organize every update into a consistent structure: What happened, why it matters, the background of the legislation, and resources
• Visualize data through dashboards and maps that make patterns in laws and protections easier to see—and easier to talk about.
• Share clear and approachable ways people choose to engage —each one designed to fit different comfort levels, capacities, and seasons of life.

WRDI tracks women’s rights in all the forms they are lived. That includes transgender girls and women, whose rights are shaped by many of the same laws and protections.

The Story Behind the Initiative

Hi, I'm Julie.

WRDI began when it became increasingly difficult to understand what was actually happening to women’s rights. Executive orders, state laws, and court decisions were arriving quickly, making it hard to see how individual changes fit together.

After Roe v. Wade was overturned, I began tracking developments in one place—simply to understand the full picture. I logged bills, policies, and court cases state by state to see what was really changing.

When I looked at that information all together, two things became clear: the pace of change was accelerating, and there was no single, accessible place to track it across issues and states.

That early work became the foundation for WRDI—a central, trusted resource designed to replace fragmentation with clarity, and confusion with context.

Today, WRDI is more than a tracker. It’s an ongoing effort to make women’s rights information easier to understand, easier to share, and easier to return to over time.

Ready to Explore?

See what’s changing in your state, learn why it matters, and find next steps that fit you.

Contact Us

Women's Rights Data Initiative
P.O. Box 26
Sister Bay, Wisconsin 54234
www.womensrightsdata.org

Questions, comments, or corrections: info@womensrightsdata.org
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