This paper offers an overview of the significance and status of access to reproductive health rights and services in the United States today.
According to an Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) analysis of the October employment report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), women gained 60,000 jobs and men gained 82,000 for a total of 142,000 jobs added in September. The overall unemployment rate remained steady at 5.1 percent in August and September.
This post originally appeared in the August/September 2015 edition of [...]
by Heidi Hartmann, Ph.D. Every September, the U.S. Census Bureau [...]
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The ratio of women’s and men’s median annual earnings was 78.6 percent for full-time/year-round workers in 2014.
According to the September employment report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), Black women and men have the highest levels of unemployment, while whites have the lowest.
By Sarah Blugis, Communications Intern and Rachel Linn, Communications Associate [...]
by Heidi Hartmann, Ph.D. This foreword appears in the IWPR [...]
This report, a collaboration between the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) and MomsRising, is an analysis of the U.S. Department of Labor’s proposed change to the overtime threshold and how this change will affect working women.
