A new report released by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) finds that provisions in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will increase the number of working mothers who breastfeed their children up to the age of six months, particular among lower income and hourly employees.
New provisions under the ACA for expressing breast milk at work will largely impact hourly employees.
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As a vote is pending in the Senate, activists are [...]
IWPR’s research on the Status of Women in the Middle East and North Africa, gender segregation in the workforce, the status of women in the Gulf Coast following Hurricane Katrina.
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by Robert Drago, Ph.D. Education, and particularly higher education, provides [...]
by Jennifer Clark 1. The recent recession was not predominantly [...]
In addition to gathering information about women’s and men’s economic, social and political status, the SWMENA survey investigated the extent to which women in Yemen had access to, or the opportunity to make use of, formal health care.
This topic brief presents the main findings from the SWMENA survey in Yemen on paid work and employment
