--- title: Debra L. Ness | TIME description: Debra L. Ness is President of National Partnership for Women & Families canonical: https://time.com/author/debra-l-ness/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/debra-l-ness/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Debra L. Ness ## Debra L. Ness _Debra L. Ness is President of National Partnership for Women & Families_ ## Debra L. Ness *  Apr 10, 2018 ### [1 in 3 Americans Don’t Know That a Gender Wage Gap Exists, Survey Says](https://time.com/5233195/equal-pay-day-close-gender-wage-gap/) ‘To close the pay gap, we need to close the awareness gap’ *  Oct 6, 2016 ### [McDonald's Sexual Harassment Complaints Show How Widespread the Problem Is](https://time.com/4519983/mcdonalds-franchise-sexual-harassment-complaints/) According to a new survey of women in fast-food jobs, 2/5 said they had been harassed Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/debra-l-ness/","name":"Debra L. Ness"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/debra-l-ness/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/debra-l-ness/"},"name":"Debra L. Ness","jobTitle":null,"description":"Debra L. Ness is President of National Partnership for Women & Families","url":"https://time.com/author/debra-l-ness/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```