Thanks to the state courts and legislature, as of May 1, abortion access in Florida is now more restricted than ever under the state’s near-total ban. The impact will resonate throughout the state, harming women and hurting the state economy.
Pride Month has come and gone, and so has the over-the-top corporate support for the LGBTQ+ community. Throughout June, companies turn their logos rainbow, hang Pride flags from windows, and make questionable posts declaring “allyship” on social media. And yet, time and time again, companies have shown that their support for LGBTQ+ people is conditional on profitability. This marketing is glaringly inauthentic. In 2023, conservative backlash to LGBTQ+ inclusive campaigns set off a wave of boycotts, causing major brands to [...]
Black Women’s Equal Pay Day—a day to bring awareness to the extreme pay inequity that Black women face in the United States—is on July 9 this year. A new fact sheet from IWPR finds that, across the country, Black women with earnings make 66.5 cents for every dollar a White man makes. Black women face many barriers to achieving pay equity, including pay discrimination, occupational segregation, and obstacles to educational attainment. To achieve pay equity, IWPR proposes passing policy solutions [...]
This year, June 13 marks LGBTQIA+ Equal Pay Awareness Day—a day to recognize the wage gap between lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQIA+) workers and their straight and cisgender counterparts. On average, in 2021, LGBTQIA+ workers earned 90 cents per dollar compared to all full-time workers in the United States. Women in this community earned 87 cents per dollar compared to the average wage for all workers across the labor market, while LGBTQIA+ men made 96 cents per dollar. [...]
This blog originally appeared on the Policies for Action (P4A) website. The importance of paid sick leave was underscored in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. As the world grappled with the challenges of a global health crisis, the simple act of staying home when feeling unwell became a critical strategy in curbing the spread of the virus. Yet even though the pandemic shed light on the necessity of paid sick leave, the question remains which workers have or do [...]
This is the sixth and final blog in a series detailing the panels and discussions that took place at the recent 2024 Care Conference hosted by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) and American University’s Program on Gender Analysis in Economics (PGAE). Build evidence to shape policies: that’s what IWPR strives to do through our policy research in order to win economic equity for women. At IWPR’s 2024 Care Conference closing plenary, panelists shared their perspectives on what, in addition [...]
This is the fifth blog in a series detailing the panels and discussions that took place at the recent 2024 Care Conference hosted by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) and American University’s Program on Gender Analysis in Economics (PGAE). Nancy Folbre, a professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, began the “The Undervaluation of Care Work in the Human Services Sector” workshop with a chicken-and-egg question: “Is care undervalued because it is primarily provided by disempowered people—especially women of color—or [...]
