A Job Seeker's Desperate Choice
Across the country, subsidies for child care have plummeted . [...]
IWPR Experts Available to Comment on Economic Impact of Family-Friendly Workplace Policies
Today, three leading experts on work family policies from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) are attending the White House Summit on Working Families. The Summit will bring together business leaders, policymakers, researchers, and advocates to discuss policy solutions aimed at expanding economic opportunity for working women and families.
IWPR Launches New National Work on the Status of Women in the States
by Cynthia Hess, Ph.D. IWPR recently launched new work on [...]
Congress Won't Be 50 Percent Women Until 2121. What Is the Hold Up
Are we looking at more than 100 years before women [...]
More than Two-Thirds of Low-Wage and Food Service Workers Lack Access to Paid Sick Days in Oakland
Washington, DC —A new analysis by the Institute for Women’s [...]
Men Still 699,000 Jobs Short of Employment Recovery; Strong Job Gains in May for Men and Women in Female-Dominated Industries
According to an Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) analysis of the June employment report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), although the total number of jobs lost in the recession has been recovered (138,463,000 jobs in May 2014 vs. 138,350,000 jobs in December 2007, when the recession began), men are still short 699,000 from their prerecession peak. Women regained their peak in August 2013. In May, women gained 86,000 jobs on nonfarm payrolls, while men gained 131,000 for an increase of 217,000 total jobs in May. In the past year, men have gained more than half the new jobs added (53 percent vs. 47 percent for women).
Let’s shift up women’s representation!
by Marni Allen, Director, Political Parity At the rate we’re [...]
New Research Explores the Barriers Women Face in Seeking Higher Office
A new report released today by Political Parity, a nonpartisan program of Hunt Alternatives, finds that women in politics often encounter a series of structural and social roadblocks that make it difficult to navigate a road to higher office. The findings in the report draw on insights from focus groups and in-depth interviews conducted by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) and polling of female state legislators by Lake Research Partners and Chesapeake Beach Consulting.
Women Gained 166,000 Jobs in April; Men Gained 51 Percent of Jobs Added in the Past Year
According to an Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) analysis of the May employment report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), women gained 166,000 jobs on nonfarm payrolls in April, while men gained 122,000 for an increase of 288,000 total jobs in April. Women’s employment growth was strongest in Professional and Business Services (42,000 jobs gained by women), Education and Health Services (33,000 jobs gained by women), Leisure and Hospitality (27,000 jobs gained by women), Retail Trade (24,000 jobs gained by women, and Government (13,000 jobs gained by women).
Women Gained 166,000 Jobs in April; Men Have Regained 86% of the Jobs they Lost in the Recession
Washington, DC —According to an Institute for Women’s Policy Research [...]
