The Hidden Face of Financial Abuse
by Lisa Rabasca Roepe “Many people don’t recognize financial abuse [...]
Many of the fastest growing jobs in the United States are missing men
By Bridget Ansel "Jobs—and quality jobs—are on everyone’s mind. Policymakers [...]
Florida maintains as ‘dismal’ state for women, more opportunities needed
By Beth Reese Cravey Wednesday, Liang and other members of [...]
The Innovators: Chandani Doshi, Grace Li, Jialin Shi, Bonnie Wang, Charlene Xia, Tania Yu
By Editorial Staff Earlier this year, these six students presented [...]
Not-So-Non-Traditional Students: How Higher Ed Can Evolve to Meet the Needs of the Rising Number of Non-Traditional Students
By Adelia Humme These students may have additional commitments beyond [...]
Florida Receives D+ on Women’s Poverty and Access to Opportunity, with Wide Disparities by County
Washington, DC—A new county-level analysis of the status of women in Florida, released by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) in partnership with the Florida Women’s Funding Alliance (FWFA), finds that women in Florida have higher rates of poverty, lower educational attainment, and lower access to health insurance coverage than women in the United States overall, but the state ranks 5th in the nation on women’s business ownership. The report estimates that if working women in Florida were paid the same as comparable men—men who are of the same age, have the same level of education, work the same number of hours, and have the same urban/rural status—the poverty rate among all working women would fall by 57.3 percent.
Job Training and Community College Administrators Say Supportive Services are Key to Program Completion, but are Not Adequately Funded
Washington, DC—A new survey released today by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR), reports that 97 percent of job training administrators say that supportive services—such as child care, housing, emergency cash, and transportation assistance—are important or very important in helping participants complete job or skills training programs, but programs lack funding to offer enough services to meet demand. Although virtually all job training administrators want to provide more supportive services, nearly two-thirds say they are unlikely to expand their services in the near future, with funding constraints listed as the top reason.
For College Students With Kids, Getting Cheap Child Care Is A Challenge
By Kat Londsdorf Ever heard that term? It's used for [...]
Universities Cut Services for a Big Group of their Students: Those Over 25
By Matt Krupnick Forty percent of U.S. university and college [...]
Male Inventors are Three Times More Likely to Apply for Patents than Women
A new report from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) finds that, between 2000 and 2016, the number of patent applications with a man listed as the primary inventor was more than triple the number of applications with a woman listed first, but applications filed by women and men primary inventors were accepted at similar rates (67 and 73 percent, respectively).
