As of June 1, 2016, the Economic Security for Survivors (ESS) Project, established by WOW, will be housed at IWPR, along with many of WOW’s informational resources.

This report was prepared by International Finance Corporation as part of a work program on women’s employment in agribusiness funded by the World Bank Group’s Private Sector Window of the Umbrella Facility for Gender Equality.

In this post, we argue that the figure is an accurate measure of the inequality in earnings between women and men who work full-time, year-round in the labor market and reflects a number of different factors: discrimination in pay, recruitment, job assignment, and promotion; lower earnings in occupations mainly done by women; and women’s disproportionate share of time spent on family care, including that they—rather than fathers—still tend to be the ones to take more time off work when families have children.

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Child care is a crucial support for the 4.8 million parents in college, but it is difficult for students to find and afford.