Women deserve better.
Help make better possible.
Real change happens when people come together to create the resources, support, and opportunities women and families deserve.
Advocate for Better
Help create places where women and families can flourish
Women deserve the resources and support to continue their education, pursue their careers, care for their families, live safely, and build the futures they envision.
Women Deserve Better helps people strengthen that support where women learn, work, and live.
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Assess
Understand what’s available
Take a closer look at existing resources, policies, and support, and where opportunities for improvement remain.
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Connect
Bring people together
Create conversations among people with lived experience and those in a position to strengthen resources and support.
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Improve
Turn ideas into action
Work toward practical solutions that give women and families greater support, opportunity, and security.
On Campus
Improve Campuses Where Pregnant and Parenting Students Can Succeed
Pregnancy and parenthood shouldn’t stand in the way of an education.
Women Deserve Better helps students, faculty, and administrators understand the resources available to pregnant and parenting students, identify opportunities for greater support, and work together to create campuses where parents can continue their education and pursue their goals.
Connected directly with WDB’s national College Outreach Program and landmark campus Resource Forums.
In the Workplace
Create Workplaces Where Women and Families Can Thrive
Women shouldn’t have to choose between succeeding at work and caring for their families.
Women Deserve Better helps employees and employers take a closer look at how pregnancy and parenthood are supported in the workplace, and start constructive conversations about policies, accommodations, resources, and practical solutions.
In Your Community
Build Communities Where Women and Families Can Flourish
Every community is different. The resources available to women and families, and the challenges they face accessing them, can vary from one community or state to another.
Women Deserve Better encourages people to listen to women and families, understand the resources already available, bring community partners into the conversation, and identify opportunities for stronger, more comprehensive support.
We ask: “What would make it easier for women in your community to have and raise children, continue their education, pursue their careers, live safely, and build stable futures?”
Pregnancy & Parenting Resource Forums
Bring the Right People to the Table
A Pregnancy & Parenting Resource Forum brings students, administrators, and community resource providers together to understand available resources, identify opportunities for greater support, and develop practical next steps for pregnant and parenting students.
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Step One
Assess
Identify existing resources and opportunities for greater support.
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Step Two
Connect
Bring students, decision-makers, and resource providers together.
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Step Three
Improve
Turn the conversation into practical recommendations and next steps.
Start the Conversation
Bring Women Deserve Better With You
Use Women Deserve Better resources to introduce WDB, share practical support with women and families, and start conversations on your campus, in your workplace, or in your community.
More Ways to Make a Difference
Volunteer
Whether your strengths are research, writing, outreach, communications, organizing, or something else, we’d love to hear how you’d like to help.
Intern with Us
Contribute to research, writing, advocacy, communications, and special projects while gaining meaningful nonprofit experience.
Stay Connected
Stay informed about Women Deserve Better resources, advocacy, events, and opportunities to get involved.
Help Make Better Possible
Every resource shared, conversation started, institution strengthened, and woman supported brings us closer to a world where women don’t have to choose between their children and their futures.
Women deserve better.