By Janet Nguyen About 4.8 million undergraduates  — or more than 25 percent of college students — are raising children, according to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. And a growing number of students who pursue [...]

By Ben Schiller THE LOST OPPORTUNITY OF BLACK WOMEN FOUNDERS Black women are the most educated group in the nation, and black women are the highest percentage of any group enrolled in college, as per the 2011 [...]

By Meredith Kolodner The program was created by Congress in 1998 and greatly expanded in 2001 under President George W. Bush, when funding hit a high-water mark of $25 million. Since 2003, spending has remained [...]

IW Staff Three in four American families with young children rely on a mother’s earnings for some to all of their income. Yet mothers as a group, married or single, earn substantially less than fathers, [...]

By Heidi M Przybyla  The paid leave proposal exemplifies how the promise of Trump’s populism is bumping up against a conservative Republican Congress that supports few new domestic expenditures of any kind. The White House is [...]

By Nicole Dow Money reports the U.S. is the only developed nation not to have paid parental leave, and the amount of paid time Trump is proposing pales in comparison to others. Amongst 40 other [...]