A Job Seeker's Desperate Choice
Across the country, subsidies for child care have plummeted . [...]
Across the country, subsidies for child care have plummeted . [...]
Today, three leading experts on work family policies from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) are attending the White House Summit on Working Families. The Summit will bring together business leaders, policymakers, researchers, and advocates to discuss policy solutions aimed at expanding economic opportunity for working women and families.
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"Despite an earlier Pew report that showed women gaining parity [...]
Are we looking at more than 100 years before women [...]
Are we looking at more than 100 years before women [...]
Washington, DC —A new analysis by the Institute for Women’s [...]
According to an Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) analysis of the June employment report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), although the total number of jobs lost in the recession has been recovered (138,463,000 jobs in May 2014 vs. 138,350,000 jobs in December 2007, when the recession began), men are still short 699,000 from their prerecession peak. Women regained their peak in August 2013. In May, women gained 86,000 jobs on nonfarm payrolls, while men gained 131,000 for an increase of 217,000 total jobs in May. In the past year, men have gained more than half the new jobs added (53 percent vs. 47 percent for women).
"Surveys that include CEOs of smaller companies, both publicly and [...]