Building Alliances of Women: A Manual for Holding Workshops on Women’s Values
This manual provides an overview of how to hold workshops on women’s values in your community.
Valuing Good Health in California: The Costs and Benefits of the Healthy Families, Healthy Workplaces Act of 2008
Policy makers across the country are increasingly concerned about the adequacy of existing paid sick leave policies.
Pink Buses
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Still a Man’s Labor Market: The Long-Term Earnings Gap
The report uses data from a 15-year longitudinal study (from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics) and shows that over that period women earned 62 percent less than men, or only 38 cents for every dollar men earned.
IWPR Newsletter: Winter 2008
Legislative Routes for Improving Workplace Flexibility; and more articles
Statutory Routes to Workplace Flexibility in Cross-National Perspective
The large majority of high-income countries have introduced flexible working statutes aimed at making it easier for employees to change how many hours, and when and where they work within their current job.
I Knew I Could Do This Work: Seven Strategies That Promote Women’s Activism and Leadership in Unions
Women are an increasing proportion of union membership, thanks to their higher labor force participation and growing unionization in the jobs they dominate, such as nursing, teaching, and clerical jobs.
I Knew I Could Do This Work: Seven Strategies That Promote Women’s Activism and Leadership in Unions (Participant Handout)
This guide will help union facilitators lead a discussion group about how to promote women’s leadership in their unions.
The Economic Status of Women in Indiana: Highlights
Indiana reflects both the advances and limited progress achieved by women in the United States.
Public Health and Paid Sick Days: Policy Action to Limit the Spread of Disease and Improve Health In Massachusetts
The public health aspect of paid sick days policies is extremely compelling.
