National Womens Law Center

Oh, cool.

So the stat that you heard came from the National Women's Law Center, which did an analysis of the July 2026 data from the BLS, the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

And among adults ages 20 and older, the number of women in the labor force fell by about 165,000 in the month of July, while the number of men in the labor force remained essentially unchanged.

And so that means that in the month of July, 100% of net decline among adults over 20 of labor force participation was women.

And your description of it was right on target.

We, along with some terrific partners who work on women's employment issues, the National Women's Law Center, Equal Rights Advocates, Black Women's Roundtable, Justice for Migrant Women, the breadth and depth of organizations who work on women's employment issues and have done so for a long time.

We came together really focused on drilling down on what are the things that we think we can do to lift up policies and strategies that invest in women workers and support them in the way that they need to be supported at a moment when our economy is stressed.

And families are stressed.

As you well know, this is about more than abortion.

In just one year of Trump's so-called One Big Beautiful Bill, National Women's Law Center reports women have faced Ongoing losses of healthcare coverage through Medicaid and the ACA marketplace, devastating loss of access to primary, preventive, and reproductive and pregnancy-related healthcare, and greater burdens on already marginalized women, such as women of color, low-paid workers, immigrant women, and women living in rural areas.

Mini, w- what should people know about how women's health is suffering under Trump before they vote in November?

You know, the National Women's Law Center report, uh, is startling in that it puts together all the data and all the points.

But even before the big Beautiful bill, uh, we saw the Trump administration attacking access to family planning services, gutting Title X services.

Those are the basic OBGYN preventative care services, cancer screenings, uh, birth control, uh, gutting teen pregnancy programs.

Hallelujah.

Now, the National Women's Law Center, Amy Matsui works there, and she warned that expanding eligibility without increasing funds could create more competition for already limited sources.

Yes, if you're going to start giving this pot of money that Congress has appropriated for this program, for this purpose, and you're going to put a whole bunch of other people on it, they're not all going to be getting $9,000 anymore.

There's not enough money.

They say it's going to amount to a, quote-unquote, "raid" on the funds by married parents.

For example, the National Women's Law Center called it a, quote-unquote, "pro-natalist effort that would punish single motherhood."

Hmm.

Well, I can see why this is contentious, but an interesting policy conversation to have.

it's Gavin and Stacey's land now people want to feel like they are part of like yeah this beautiful world that we're like sold through screens whether it's like the internet or tv And I feel like now we're just living in such a heightened state of that, that, yeah, we don't consider anything that exists within our phones in this way to be a reflection of the real world.

And Charlotte makes a really good point that, like, women accounted for 100% of the decline in the labor force in July, according to the National Women's Law Center.

And that basically, I forgot.

The women are suffering.

Men and women have flocked to this story alike, but we're going to get to that later.

okay so i wanted to talk about olivia rodrigo because she is just the cutest so she had her daisy chain fields festival this weekend which was her first time doing this she created her own festival where it was all women performing and they all performed for free basically and then all the tickets went to a donation for all of these different charities for women so i just feel like it's such a cool thing for a pop star to be doing right now and then for her to be able to like curate the artist so she had chaperone and dochi and it's like that's a freaking concert i want to go to with all the girlies and just having fun of all different genres she had stevie nicks come out like that is just a girly day and then to like top it off she brought in 10 million in donations and then melinda gates matched it so it's 20 million and they went to 10 non-profits which i wanted to mention because i just thought like i don't know i just love olivia so it went to baby to baby which provides essential items including diapers formula clothing and food to children in need black mamas matter alliance which provides black mothers with resources before during and after their pregnancy and National Women's Law Center, which fights for gender justice nationwide.

There was a lot of different ones like Planned Parenthood was on here, National Domestic Workers Alliance, John Hopkins Center for Indigenous Health.

So it was just really cool to see somebody use their celebrity in such a cool way.