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This article is a literature review on violence against women and employment. It includes information on types of job interference tactics by perpetrators, employer responses and attitudes, consequences for employers, and survivor responses.

Available from: Contact the NRCDV at 1-800-537-2238; 1-800-553-2508 (TTY).

This report highlights some of the barriers to employment that many domestic violence survivors experience, service needs, and outcomes.

The report describes and recommends practices including collaboration, training, and screening/referral.

This statistical brief provides information on several leading indicators of Latina employment status, including education, labor force/employment, health insurance and pension coverage, union affiliation, and family status.

This webpage provides comprehensive information about immigrant workers’ rights, including employment eligibility, discrimination, E-Verify, and more.

This report describes the ratio of women’s and men’s median annual earnings, which was 77.0 for full-time, year-round workers in 2009, essentially unchanged from 77.1 in 2008. This is below the peak of 77.8 percent in 2007.

This report explains the business impact of inadequate sick leave coverage for workers. It also analyzes national relevant data, including who has paid sick leave and permitted uses of paid sick leave. TDI policy is also covered.

This report looks at women's economic status across several indicators: women's earnings, gender wage ratio, % of women in managerial/professional occupations, women's business ownership, and poverty. State profiles are available.

It includes statistics on women in the workplace as well as EEOC data on various forms of discrimination from FY1992 to FY2003.

This guide covers state laws and legislative proposals affecting an employer's ability to seek restraining orders for employees in situations involving domestic violence.

This guide provides brief language of state laws and legislative proposals explicitly covering unemployment insurance eligibility in situations involving domestic violence. Live links are provided to the alphabetized laws and bills from the document.

This matrix is an alphabetical listing of state laws on family and medical leave. It identifies qualifying employers and the covered type of leave.

The listing is alphabetical with live links from the document.

This matrix identifies state laws involving employment discrimination protections along criteria similar to federal laws, e.g., race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, pregnancy, and genetics.

This guide provides descriptions of state/local laws and legislative proposals explicitly covering employer prohibitions related to treatment of DV survivors in certain circumstances.

This document is an alphabetical listing of states and counties that have adopted DV workplace policies. States with model policies for private businesses are included. Live links to laws, executive orders, and bills are contained within the document.

The purpose of this act was to amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to strengthen and improve Federal civil rights laws, to provide for damages in cases of intentional employment discrimination, to clarify provisions regarding disparate impact actions, and for other purposes.

prohibiting employment discrimination against individuals with disabilities in the federal government

prohibiting employment discrimination against qualified individuals with disabilities

Prohibiting employment discrimination against persons 40 years of age or older.

The Equal Pay Act of 1963 - prohibiting sex-based wage discrimination for men and women performing substantially equal work in the same establishment

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibiting employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin

Entitling employees to family and temporary medical leave for medical reasons, for the birth or adoption of a child, and for the care of a child, spouse, or parent who has a serious health condition.

This report is often cited for the finding that intimate partner victimization rates were significantly higher for people living in rental housing vs. those living in their own homes.

Advocates can view the results of the survey and note information from similar demographic locations. This tool gives information on the demand for emergency food and shelter, the ability of agencies to meet this demand, the causes of hunger and homelessness within each city, the types of programs available to meet people's needs, the availability of affordable housing, and the forecast for 2005 on the impact of the economy on hunger and homelessness. This survey and report are issued annually.