This policy brief focuses on the One Big Beautiful Bill’s (OBBB) impacts on women’s equitable work and wages, specifically on the issues outlined in IWPR’s Equal Pay, Minimum Wage, Better Workplaces, and Retirement and Social Security policy briefs.

As millions of women experience a worsening wage gap and families face job losses, growing costs at the grocery store, and economic uncertainty further heightened by the current federal government shutdown, the harmful consequences of the new law will only further compound existing challenges they face in striving for economic equity and security.