The Effectiveness of Equal Employment opportunities Policies
A chapter published in Economic Perspectives on Affirmative Action, Margaret C. Simms (ed.), University Press of America, 1995.
Providing Paid Family Leave: Estimating the Cost of Expanding California’s Disability Insurance Program
Testimony before the U.S. Commission on Family and Medical Leave, San Francisco, CA. Estimates the cost of expanding California’s Temporary Disability Insurance Program and examines the feasibility of using the temporary disability insurance model to provide paid family leave to workers.
Temporary Disability Insurance: A Model to Provide Income Security Over the Life Cycle
An IWPR paper presented at the 1995 Annual Meetings of the American Economics Association of the Allied Social Science Associations. Argues for the need to change the traditional social welfare system to allow for demographic changes, family diversity, and women’s need for income replacement across the life cycle.
Pay Equity and the Wage Gap: Success in the States
By 1989, twenty states had implemented programs to raise the wages of workers in female-dominated jobs in their state civil services.
Pay Equity as a Remedy for Wage Discrimination: Success in State Governments
Testimony concerning the Fair Pay Act of 1994 before the Subcommittee on Select Education and Civil Rights, U.S. House of Representatives Based on findings from the project The Economic Effects of Pay Equity in the States.
Women’s Access to Health Insurance (Testimony)
Testimony before the Committee on Finance, U.S. Senate, on the IWPR report Women’s Access to Health Insurance.
Looking Toward the Workplace of the 21st Century: Closing the Policy Gap for Working Women
A lecture given at George Washington University as part of the Annual Nancy Yulee Lecture Series. Overview of women’s labor force participation, women’s educational attainment, the wage gap, and family roles, as well as public policy changes that could help to alleviate gender inequities.
Transition Documents and Economic Agendas
In the past several months, various think tanks and organizations have released agendas filled with policy recommendations to be considered by the new administration.
Thirty-Five Million: a Preliminary Report on the Status of Young Women
This report presents highlights, in chart form, of the status of women aged 18-34 from 1970 to the present time, covering demographic, economic and social characteristics.
Raises and Recognition: Secretaries, Clerical Workers and the Union Wage Premium
Though secretarial and clerical occupations were not always female intensive, they are currently the largest women's occupational category in the US.
