Recent data shows the gender pay gap widened again in 2025, in both hourly and salaried occupations, continuing a concerning shift after years of slow progress.
Women earned about 82. …
As of March 2026, Arizona’s women’s rights landscape is defined by a combination of voter-approved protections and ongoing legislative and legal challenges.
In 2024, voters approved Proposition 139, …
Note from Julie
Hi — I’m Julie, founder of the Women’s Rights Data Initiative.
I started WRDI because I was struggling to understand what was actually happening to women’ …
Covers bills and statutes considered or enacted by state or federal legislatures. This tag includes proposals moving through committees, floor votes, and signed laws that shape women’s health, safety, workplace rights, education, and civic participation.
Texas lawmakers passed House Bill 18 in June 2025, a sweeping rural health law designed to keep small hospitals open and expand access to care in underserved parts of the …
In 2024, Texas expanded postpartum Medicaid and CHIP coverage from 2 months to 12. The bipartisan bill (HB 12) aims to improve maternal health by allowing new mothers to continue …
Wisconsin’s “Child Care Counts," a pandemic-era program established by the federal government to support the return of parents to work, received a partial extension under the 2025-27 budget, …
In June of this year, Texas passed SB 1362, which bans state and local officials from recognizing, serving, or enforcing ERPOs (Extreme Risk Protective Orders), including those issued by other …
On May 19, 2021, Governor Abbott signed SB 8, also known as the Heartbeat Act, prohibiting doctors from performing abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected, typically around 6 weeks. …
Texas public universities spent 2024 dismantling DEI offices to comply with SB 17, which has meant program closures and layoffs at places like UT Austin. Students and staff describe losing …
In May 2025, the Republican-controlled finance committee in Wisconsin removed a mandate from Governor Evers’s 2025-27 budget proposal that would introduce an 8-week paid family and medical leave program …
Introduced on January 3, 2025, the SAVE Act (HR 22) would have required all individuals to provide documentary proof of U.S. citizenship when registering to vote in federal elections …
