IWPR Newsletter: Fall 2003
Using Research to Amplify Women’s Voices: IWPR’s Study on [...]
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.
The 40-hour-a-week, year-round work requirement Congress is considering imposing on TANF recipients is substantially higher than the current level of mothers’ employment activity.
This report is the tenth in a series of IWPR reports examining the income sources and employment of low-income families.
This study builds on previous IWPR work and provides information on the income packaging strategies and outcomes for a variety of low-income families with children in the United States during a time period prior to the welfare reform legislation of 1996.
Gender and Economic Security in Retirement is the result of on-going research conducted at the Institute for Women’s Policy Research to analyze the economic status of women and men as they age.
This Briefing Paper examines major sources of income for older Americans—earnings, Social Security pensions and assets—by gender and marital status.
Is Feminism Dead? Many prominent American leaders argue that women have achieved equality or are at least close enough that feminism is no longer relevant to most women's lives.