COVID 19 and Recovery Response
In these unprecedented times, the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) is committed to communicating and addressing the challenges women are facing. IWPR’s new research outlines how policymakers can address the immediate and long term needs of women, their families, and their communities in policy responses to the pandemic.
Can one recession set back years of progress?
By Business Casual By the end of April of this year, women’s job losses had erased a decade of employment gains...in a matter of months. The numbers for people of color are no less disheartening. But why? How did we end up in a recession so deeply skewed against already marginalized groups? Let’s figure it out with Dr. C. Nicole Mason, president and CEO of the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. If you’re wondering 1) how we created an economic [...]
Women Fall Further Behind Men in Recovery and Are 5.8 Million Jobs Below Pre-COVID Employment Level
New jobs figures from September show much less job growth than in the previous month, particularly for women, according to the U.S. Bureau for Labor Statistics latest Employment Situation release. Women’s official rates unemployment fell, while the number of women who are no longer actively looking for work increased.
Facing dual challenges of work and home-schooling, more women are sacrificing their careers
As virtual schooling ramps up in some areas, women are being forced to make the choice between caring for their children or prioritizing their own career.
Economic Progress Stalls for Women
Jobs data show substantially slowed growth since September. For the first time in the COVID-19 recession, women have gained fewer jobs than men.
‘This Is Too Much’: Working Moms Are Reaching The Breaking Point During The Pandemic
By ANDREA HSU Youli Lee is proud of the years she worked for the U.S. government, prosecuting cybercrime in some of the world's darkest places. These days, she's the one hiding out — mostly from her three children, ages 8, 11, and 13. "I just actually locked my door so that nobody could come here," she says, from her bedroom. The constant interruptions from children are happening in households across the country. Nearly half of all school districts in the U.S. started [...]
Mothers Are 3 Times More Likely Than Fathers to Have Lost Jobs in Pandemic
By: Tim Henderson Mothers of small children have lost work at three times the rate of fathers in the pandemic, a situation that threatens not only progress toward gender equity but middle-class income gains that have become increasingly dependent on working women. Mothers of children 12 years old and younger lost nearly 2.2 million jobs between February and August, a 12% drop, a Stateline analysis found. Fathers of small children saw a 4% drop of about 870,000 jobs. The loss was even worse [...]