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(Opinion) Trump’s Title X rule defunding Planned Parenthood yet another blow to low-income women

By Michelle Chen The evidence bears out women's choices; the long-term effects of abortion restrictions could be economically devastating for low income women. According to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, in the decades following Roe, abortion [...]

August 23, 2019|

Women are mysteriously missing from D.C. think tanks’ foreign policy panels. Here’s the data.

By Federiga Bindi and Mimosa Giamanco August 23 at 5:00 AM Throughout academia, including in political science, women haven’t achieved parity with men. As this series explores, implicit bias holds women back at every stage, from the [...]

August 23, 2019|

‘Human right’ or ‘unnecessary red tape’? Dallas businesses scrambling over new paid sick time law

The new regulations likely won't faze businesses that already offer sick time or paid-time off benefits for employees. But the Institute for Women's Policy Research, which relied on U.S. census data, estimates that about 300,000 [...]

July 27, 2019|

As US women’s soccer team rallies for equal pay, what to know about the gender wage gap

The poverty rate for working women would be cut in half, says a report from the Institute for Women's Policy Research. This is significant because women currently make up 70% of Medicaid recipients and 80% of [...]

July 16, 2019|