Job Training and Support Services In-The-News: Week of March 21, 2016
Weekly Roundup of the news on women and supportive services [...]
Weekly Roundup of the news on women and supportive services [...]
This report addresses women’s access to well-paid, growing, middle-skill jobs (jobs that do not require a bachelor’s degree). It documents sex segregation in middle-skill jobs, and discusses how gender integration of good jobs could both reduce skill-shortages and improve women’s economic security.
This report addresses women’s access to well-paid, growing, middle-skill jobs (jobs that do not require a bachelor’s degree).
Weekly Roundup of the news on women and supportive services [...]
Weekly Roundup of the news on women and supportive services [...]
Weekly Roundup of the news on women and supportive services [...]
The gender wage gap for weekly full-time workers in the United States widened between 2014 and 2015.
The Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) analysis of the March employment report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) finds that women gained 167,000 jobs and men gained 75,000 for a total of 242,000 jobs added in February, giving women 69 percent of job growth.
Women’s earnings are crucial to their families’ economic well-being. Women are close to half of all employees in the United States, they are half of all workers with college degrees, and they are the co- or main breadwinners in close to two thirds of families with children, yet they persistently earn less than men.
Affordable, quality child care is crucial to the postsecondary success of the 4.8 million undergraduate students raising dependent children.