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Empowering survivors for 25 years

Explore 25 years of innovation, growth, and milestones as we celebrate the incredible journey of WomensLaw.org. From humble beginnings to becoming a trusted destination, this timeline highlights some of the key moments that have shaped our website and the passion behind our work: survivors.

25th Anniversary

2000

How It Started

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2000

Starting as Women’s Law Initiative, this was the first website published.

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2001

By February 2001, legal information was complete for 4 states.

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2002

WomensLaw hired Clever Name Here to help build our website, and they have continued working on WomensLaw.org for 23 years and counting!

48,483 website visitors
203,888 pageviews

2004

Women’s Law Initiative changed its name to WomensLaw.org.

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2004

WomensLaw.org won the Sunshine Lady Foundation Peace Award.

2005

Initial Challenges

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2005

WomensLaw.org won the Mary S. Byron Celebrating Solutions Award.

461,013 website visitors
1,645,013 pageviews

2008

The WomensLaw.org website got a new look and advertised an “Email Hotline” for the first time, rather than just saying “contact us.”

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2009

WomensLaw.org won the Webby Award – Jury Prize for Best Website in the Law Category.

772,629 website visitors
4,654,957 pageviews

2010

WomensLaw.org joined NNEDV

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2015

Our Tech Gurus

1,539,896 website visitors
4,179,371 pageviews

2017

The fresh, modern overhaul of WomensLaw.org launched.

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2020

Then there was COVID.

2,184,841 website visitors
5,620,634 pageviews

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Video launches on February 20

2022

The online chat option for users of the Email Hotline who have follow-up questions debuted.

2023

Our first Korean language materials, one-page Quick Guides, were added to WomensLaw.org.

2024

Louisiana became the 38th state completely translated into Spanish and the Northern Mariana Islands became the 55th state/territory added to WomensLaw.org.

3,969,320 website visitors
9,153,030 pageviews

2025

Into the Future, Together!

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Video launches on February 25