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Paid Family and Medical Leave: Supporting Working Families in Illinois

Recent initiatives to expand and enact paid family and medical leave programs have been inspired by the dramatic decline in the proportion of families with a full-time caregiver (wife and mother) at home.

By Vicky Lovell|2020-11-15T00:49:22-05:00September 6, 2000|IWPR|Comments Off on Paid Family and Medical Leave: Supporting Working Families in Illinois

Strengthening Social Security for Women–A Report from the Working Conference on Women and Social Security

This report is from the 1999 Working Conference on Women and Social Security. It presents recommendations on how to close Social Security's projected solvency gap as well as options to strengthen Social Security for women and families.

By Heidi Hartmann, Catherine Hill and Lisa Witter|2020-11-25T01:11:06-05:00February 29, 2000|IWPR|Comments Off on Strengthening Social Security for Women–A Report from the Working Conference on Women and Social Security

Strengthening Social Security for Women–A Report from the Working Conference on Women and Social Security

This report is from the 1999 Working Conference on Women and Social Security. It presents recommendations on how to close Social Security’s projected solvency gap as well as options to strengthen Social Security for women and families.

By Catherine Hill and Heidi Hartmann|2020-11-25T01:08:56-05:00February 29, 2000|IWPR|Comments Off on Strengthening Social Security for Women–A Report from the Working Conference on Women and Social Security

Why Privatizing Social Security Would Hurt Women: A Response to the Cato Institute’s Proposal for Individual Accounts

Social Security reform is a women's issue.

By Catherine Hill, Lois Shaw and Heidi Hartmann|2020-12-27T18:46:42-05:00February 1, 2000|IWPR|Comments Off on Why Privatizing Social Security Would Hurt Women: A Response to the Cato Institute’s Proposal for Individual Accounts