More than half of all workers in the private sector and in state and local government (54 percent, or 66 million workers) are not provided with any paid sick leave after a full year of service, according to a new analysis of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research.
Expansion of paid sick leave and integration of family caregiving activities into authorized uses of paid sick leave are crucial work and health supports for workers, their families, employers, and our communities at large.
The Florida unemployment insurance (UI) system is not meeting its basic goal of providing a modest measure of income support to temporarily unemployed workers.
The Florida unemployment insurance (UI) system is not meeting its basic goal of providing a modest measure of income support to temporarily unemployed workers. This is due in significant part to the UI system’s failure to keep pace with fundamental changes in the labor market, including the growth of low-wage and part-time work and the vastly expanding role of women in the labor market.
This study examines the prevalence of disabilities among mothers and children and analyzes how these disabilities influence mothers’ work participation.
The gender wage gap is much narrower now than it was at the start of the revolutionary decade of the 1960s, when long-standing barriers to women’s educational achievement and employment success began to be dismantled and the first of a series of critical equal employment opportunity standards were enacted by Congress.
Using Research to Amplify Women’s Voices: IWPR’s Study on [...]
In the current debate over welfare reauthorization, the importance of child care assistance for low-income and working families cannot be overstated.
In this report, the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) outlines key research findings that can help Rachel’s Network achieve these goals by better understanding women’s attitudes toward the environment, their activism around environmental issues, effective strategies for engaging women in environmental activism, and potential partners among women’s organizations for building a coalition around environmentalism.
This study examines the well-being of low-income children living with a single parent before and after welfare reform. Age and race/ethnicity variables are used to illuminate the range of impacts experienced by the children in the sample.
