IWPR Research News Roundup – June 2019
RESEARCH MAKING THE NEWS Automation Could Force Millions of Women [...]
Work Supports for Child Health: The Role of Paid Family and Medical Leave
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Assets for Equity: Building Wealth for Women in Central Ohio
Building wealth is integral to women’s economic security, good health, and overall well-being. Wealth—the value of assets minus debts—enables women to weather unexpected economic hardships and provides them with resources that allow them to have proactive control over their lives, giving them the chance to pursue educational degrees, business ventures, or other opportunities without accruing significant debt.
Women are mysteriously missing from D.C. think tanks’ foreign policy panels. Here’s the data.
Throughout academia, including in political science, women haven’t achieved parity [...]
IWPR Research News Roundup – March 2019
RESEARCH MAKING THE NEWS As AI Takes Over Jobs, Women [...]
The Need to Increase Gender Diversity in Innovation and Patenting Testimony Submitted to the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Intellectual Property
Thank you Chairman Tillis, Ranking Member Coons, and Members of the Intellectual Property Subcommittee for holding this important hearing on the diversity gap in innovation and patenting. My name is Barbara Gault, and I am Executive Vice President at the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR). I appreciate your invitation to testify on IWPR’s work on women and innovation.
Work Supports for Reducing Maternal Mortality: The Role of Paid Family and Medical Leave
Maternal mortality has been on the rise in the United States since the 1990s and the United States has the highest maternal mortality rate of any developed nation in the world according to the World Health Organization. Maternal mortality also varies widely by race and ethnicity in the United States, with Black women more than three times as likely to die in childbirth as White women.
The Gender Wage Gap: 2018 Earnings Differences by Race and Ethnicity
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IWPR Research News Roundup – January 2019
RESEARCH MAKING THE NEWS The Class of 2019 are More [...]
IWPR Research News Roundup – December 2018
RESEARCH MAKING THE NEWS Working Women are Underrepresented in the [...]
