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.
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.
