The mission of the Southwest Women’s Law Center (SWLC) is to create the opportunity for women+ to realize their full economic and personal potential by:
- eliminating gender bias, discrimination, and harassment;
- lifting women and their families out of poverty; and
- ensuring that all women have full control over their reproductive lives through access to comprehensive reproductive health services and information.
Our Approach
We seek unique and creative ideas and collaborations to accomplish our mission.
Our advocacy is guided by the following principles:
- the significant relationship between gender discrimination, poverty, and reproductive justice
- legal advocacy is necessary to create systemic change
- women of color face additional barriers
- respond to community-based advocates and providers
- collaborations and coalitions are essential.
We know that legal advocacy is necessary to create systemic change, and we are active in creating necessary change on behalf of women and girls in New Mexico.”
Our Long-term Vision
Our work aims to create more education, resources, and empowerment for women and girls in New Mexico.
Whether it’s filing paperwork and self-sufficiency to building individual capacity to access legal services. We work to preserve, support, and expand the legal rights and protections afforded to women and girls in New Mexico under federal and state law.
We advocate for the working poor and survivors of domestic and sexual violence to assure they have sufficient time off to address family and medical issues, and in the case of survivors—to deal with the aftermath of violence.
We advocate for the implementation of Paid Family Medical Leave in New Mexico so that families can have the economic security to bond with newborns, and take care of medically dependent individuals, without being unfairly terminated or suffering severe financial loss.
We work closely with community-based agencies that work with women and girls to increase opportunities for their clients to receive necessary services and attain economic self-sufficiency through legal advocacy.
Your Impact. Their Future.
Your impact: immediate.
The Southwest Women’s Law Center focuses on issues that impact women and girls around reproductive rights, economic security, and gender discrimination.
We fight for policies that lift women and their families from poverty, including pay equity, paid family and medical leave, and pregnant worker accommodation.
Stand with us. Together we can forge a future of equality, safety, and freedom for all women.
