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The Center for Women Policy Studies was founded in 1972 as the nation’s first feminist policy analysis, research and advocacy institution.

Our mission today is what it was then — to shape public policy to improve women’s lives.

Women's Health

Women & Poverty

US Foreign Policy & Its Impact on Women

Women Engaging Globally

Post Election Action Convening on US Foreign Policy

GlobalPOWER®

"No More Business as Usual"

The Barbara Waxman Fiduccia Papers on Women and Girls with Disabilities

Contract with Women of the USA®

The Contract sets out 12 key principles for women’s human rights. The Center works with elected officials in all 50 states to bring its promises home to women and girls in the USA.

US PACT
(US Policy Advocacy to Combat Trafficking) National Institute on State Policy on Trafficking of Women and Girls

The Center’s leadership enables state legislators throughout the United States to craft state anti-trafficking laws and policies.

The US PACT Clearinghouse includes:

Interactive map of the United States with information on state policies and federal prosecutions on international human trafficking into the United States .
US PACT clearinghouse: Searchable annotated bibliography that includes an extensive collection of government publications, academic journals, non-governmental reports and books.

Read the Center's Report Card on State Action to Combat International Trafficking, the first ever state-by-state analysis of state legislatures’ efforts to confront trafficking of women and girls into the United States.

Learn more about the Center’s groundbreaking GlobalPOWER® program for women Members of Parliament and Ministry officials worldwide –

click here to read GlobalPOWER® – Report of the First Two Years: 2006 and 2007.

The Center's Winter NEWS is now available here!

And please remember the Center in your year end charitable contributions – our work for women’s human rights depends upon you and we are grateful for your support.

Read about and The Foreign Policy Institute for State Legislators!

Read the Center’s written testimony to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for its meeting on “Perspectives on Work/Family Balance and the Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Laws” held April 17, 2007.

HIV/AIDS is a women's epidemic worldwide...read more.