The Challenge to Act: How Progressive Women Activists Reframe American Democracy
The Challenge to Act describes the values-based public visions of women activists involved in progressive movements for change.
Valuing Good Health in Milwaukee, The Costs and Benefits of Paid Sick Days
Policy makers across the country are increasingly interested in ensuring the adequacy of paid sick days policies. In addition to concerns about workers' ability to respond to their own health needs, there is growing recognition that, with so many dual-earners and single-parent families, family members' health needs can be addressed only by workers taking time from their scheduled hours on the job.
The Healthy Families, Healthy Workplaces Act: Impacts on Workers, Employers, and the Public
Nearly half the private-sector workforce is vulnerable to loss of income or their job when they are sick, and only one in three has a paid sick days policy for caring for their family (Hartmann 2007, Lovell 2004).
Some Small and Medium-Size Establishments Join Large Ones in Offering Paid Sick Days
Paid time off benefits are less common in smaller firms, but even in the smallest—those with one to nine employees—more than half provide paid sick days (56 percent), and nearly three-quarters have vacation policies (72 percent).
Do All Women Leaving the Workforce Have a Choice?
We need to equalize the family care burden between men and women in the United States. Only after women receive equal rights and considerations as employees and workplaces embrace work flexibility standards already set by other leading nations will women be able to make truly free decisions for their own lives.
The Impact of the Current Economic Downturn on Women
Testimony presented to the Joint Economic Committee At the hearing: “The Employment Situation: May 2008”
Women at Greater Risk of Economic Insecurity: A Gender Analysis of the Rockefeller Foundation’s American Worker Survey
In February 2007, at the request of the Rockefeller Foundation, the consulting firm Yankelovich fielded a survey to explore Americans’ sense of economic insecurity.
Why Americans Worry About Retirement Security, and Why Women Worry More Than Men
This summary excerpts findings from a report by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, Women at Greater Risk of Economic Insecurity: A Gender Analysis of the Rockefeller Foundation's American Worker Survey.
Women in the Wake of the Storm: Examining the Post-Katrina Realities of the Women of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast
This report puts to paper the perspectives of women gathered through a series of semi-structured one-on-one and small group interviews with thirty-eight women in New Orleans and Slidell, Louisiana as well as in Biloxi and Gulfport, Mississippi.
Meaningful Investments in Pre-K: Estimating the Per-Child Costs of Quality Programs
Policy makers around the country, seeing the far-reaching benefits of quality pre-kindergarten (pre-k) for three, four, and five-year-olds, are committing substantial resources to expanding these programs.
