Skip to Content

The Latest

Filter by
2124 Results
Retirement and Social Security
  • Brief
  • Retirement and Social Security

    Women’s longer life expectancy, combined with their lower overall earnings and limited contributions to retirement savings, lead to a greater incidence of poverty for women at older ages.

    Jan 30, 2025

    Increasing Pathways to Good Jobs
  • Brief
  • Increasing Pathways to Good Jobs

    Job training can provide women with the skills and supports needed to access good jobs with family-sustaining wages.

    Jan 29, 2025

    Supporting Student Parents
  • Brief
  • Supporting Student Parents

    Student parents and other nontraditional college students face unique challenges to academic success and degree attainment, including financial barriers, managing work, school, and family responsibilities, and a lack of support services.

    Jan 29, 2025

    College Affordability
  • Brief
  • College Affordability

    Research shows the economic benefits of postsecondary degree attainment, including higher earnings and lifetime wages.

    Jan 29, 2025

    Reproductive Health Care Across the Lifespan
  • Brief
  • Reproductive Health Care Across the Lifespan

    There is a dearth of information about—and policy attention to—women’s experiences navigating circumstances that shape their health, such as menstruation, access to contraception, (in)fertility, and menopause.

    Jan 29, 2025

    Maternal Health
  • Brief
  • Maternal Health

    The United States has the highest rate of maternal mortality among wealthy nations, and Black women continue to die from pregnancy-related causes at rates three times higher than White women.

    Jan 29, 2025

    Promoting Access to Abortion
  • Brief
  • Promoting Access to Abortion

    Barriers to abortion disproportionately affect those who cannot afford to take time off work, arrange child care, or travel long distances, which deepends inequities for people already facing economic hardship.

    Jan 29, 2025