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How Colleges Tell Student-Parents They Don’t Belong
How Colleges Tell Student-Parents They Don’t Belong

How Colleges Tell Student-Parents They Don’t Belong

By Nicole Lynn Lewis As a former young mother in college—at 19, I possessed both a beautiful infant daughter and an acceptance letter to the prestigious William & Mary but no clear path to my [...]

May 26, 2021|Tags: Care Infrastructure, Child Care, Student Parents, The Atlantic, Working Mothers|

How to Cure the She-Cession: 15 Moves to Help Working Women Recover
How to Cure the She-Cession: 15 Moves to Help Working Women Recover

How to Cure the She-Cession: 15 Moves to Help Working Women Recover

By Kerri Anne Renzulli More than 4.5 million fewer women are working now than at the start of the pandemic, setting women's participation rate in the workforce back more than 30 years. A combination of [...]

May 26, 2021|Tags: Child Care, COVID-19, Minimum Wage, Newsweek, Paid Leave, Pandemic, Recession, she-cession|

Exclusive: Pandemic Could Cost Typical American Woman Nearly $600,000 in Lifetime Income
Exclusive: Pandemic Could Cost Typical American Woman Nearly $600,000 in Lifetime Income

Exclusive: Pandemic Could Cost Typical American Woman Nearly $600,000 in Lifetime Income

By Emily Peck New signs of the nation's expanding recovery from the pandemic crop up every day, but for millions of women in the U.S. the economic punch of COVID may never be over. Long [...]

May 26, 2021|Tags: COVID-19, Income Inequality, Newsweek, Pandemic, Unemployment|

A Woman’s Struggle to Overcome Long-Term Unemployment
A Woman’s Struggle to Overcome Long-Term Unemployment

A Woman’s Struggle to Overcome Long-Term Unemployment

By Mitchell Hartman The Labor Department’s jobs report for April found that more than 4 of every 10 (43%) unemployed Americans were “long-term unemployed,” meaning they had been out of work and actively looking for [...]

May 26, 2021|Tags: COVID-19, Marketplace, Pandemic, Recession, Unemployment, Young Women|

The Gender Pay Gap: Why It’s Still Here
The Gender Pay Gap: Why It’s Still Here

The Gender Pay Gap: Why It’s Still Here

By Tom Spiggle By now you’ve probably heard of the gender pay gap. It gets especially a lot of attention on Equal Pay Day. This year, Equal Pay Day was March 21, as that’s how [...]

May 25, 2021|Tags: Child Care, COVID-19, Forbes, Gender Wage Gap, Income Inequality, Paid Leave, Recession, Unemployment|

Why It’s Hard to Hire Right Now
Why It’s Hard to Hire Right Now

Why It’s Hard to Hire Right Now

In the past few weeks, 22 states have announced they would end federal pandemic unemployment benefits, which pay recipients $300 on top of state benefits and are scheduled to run into September. (New Hampshire is [...]

May 22, 2021|Tags: COVID-19, DealBook, Jobs, Pandemic, The New York Times, Unemployment|

How Colleges Tell Student-Parents They Don’t Belong

How to Cure the She-Cession: 15 Moves to Help Working Women Recover

Exclusive: Pandemic Could Cost Typical American Woman Nearly $600,000 in Lifetime Income

A Woman’s Struggle to Overcome Long-Term Unemployment

The Gender Pay Gap: Why It’s Still Here

Why It’s Hard to Hire Right Now

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