The Unfinished Fight for Equal Pay: How Women Fared in 2024
November 21 was Native Women’s Equal Pay Day, marking the [...]
Unequal Burden: Challenges Facing Black Women Social Workers
Social workers provide a myriad of services to individuals, [...]
Supreme Court Undercuts Higher Education Access for Communities of Color
For Immediate Release June 29, 2023 Contact: William Lutz 202-785-5100 [...]
Black History Month and the Importance of Black Women’s Experiences
As a leading think-tank focusing on gender equity issues, intersectionality [...]
Almost a Year and a Half Later, Black Women Continue to Be Hard-Hit by the Pandemic
The disappointing September jobs report revealed that just 235,000 new [...]
Breadwinner Mothers by Race/Ethnicity
The large majority of mothers in the United States are in the labor force making their economic contribution vital for their families’ economic security. One in two of the over 30 million families with children under 18 in the United States have a breadwinner mother, who is either a single mother, irrespective of earnings, or a married mother contributing at least 40 percent of the couple’s joint earnings;
Women of Color in Economics and Sociology: Poor Climate, Unequal Treatment, and Lack of Legitimacy
A recent survey by the American Economics’ Association (AEA), for example, revealed widespread gender and racial discrimination in the field, with nearly half of women reporting unequal treatment, including sexual harassment and failure to take their work seriously (American Economic Association 2019).
The Shifting Supply and Demand of Care Work: The Growing Role of People of Color and Immigrants
As the Baby Boom generation matures and current unmet child care needs remain constant, the United States faces a burgeoning crisis in the demand for care workers. The market has slowly but surely begun to adapt, seeing an overall growth of 19 percent in the number of care workers between 2005 and 2015, with most of that growth in adult care. The U.S. Department of Labor suggests that this will only grow further, projecting that the economy will add more than 1.6 million jobs in occupations related to adult care by 2024 (Rolen 2017).
The Need to Promote Gender Diversity in Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Patenting: Written Testimony Submitted to the House Small Business CommitteeThe Need to Promote Gender Diversity in Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Patenting: Written Testimony Submitted to the House Small Business Committee
The Need to Promote Gender Diversity in Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Patenting: Written Testimony Submitted to the House Small Business Committee
IWPR’s research finds that women patent inventions at much lower rates than men, which means that potential innovations to improve technology, treat illness, and improve everyday life are being left on the table.
Black and Hispanic Women Lag in Recovering from the Recession
DOWNLOAD REPORT Unemployment among Young Women Before and [...]
