DOWNLOAD REPORT Economic changes in the last decade [...]

Women in the United States have achieved great advances and are seeing important changes in their lives. Their access to political, economic, and social rights has improved greatly over the past 20 years.

This report documents pension coverage among male and female employees and examines voluntary and involuntary reasons why women and men do not participate in pension plans.

This Briefing Paper analyzes women’s roles as victims, supporters, and opponents of violence, terrorism, and militarism.

This Research-in-Brief is based on selected findings from a new book by Jody Heymann, Director of Policy at the Harvard Center for Society and Health. Published by Basic Books in 2000, The Widening Gap: Why America’s Working Families are in Jeopardy and What Can Be Done About It reveals the failure of our nation’s employer-based support system to help families meet their caregiving responsibilities.

Decreased civic and political participation is a pressing problem in our country.

This report presents findings of an exploratory study about job training for low-income people, particularly women leaving welfare.

Summer 2001 Quarterly Newsletter

Even as the death rate from breast cancer in younger white women has fallen 7 percent over the last two decades, it has risen by 26 percent in older African American women; this, despite lower incidents of the disease itself

Recent research shows that women who leave welfare generally end up in low paying jobs with few benefits, if any. Many welfare recipients lack basic job skills that would make them appealing to employers and help them move out of dead-end jobs.