By Mankaprr Conteh Data agrees with him. A recent report compiled by the Institute for Women's Policy Research and released by the National Domestic Workers Alliance has found that despite our significant political participation, educational advancement, and entrepreneurial initiative, Black women in the United States [...]

By Vanessa Williams The report, which draws heavily on data from the U.S. Census Bureau, was prepared by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, a nonprofit organization affiliated with George Washington University. The National Domestic Workers Alliance, which released the study last week, made a [...]

By Sarah Lazare Just how true this is is made clear in a new report released by the NDWA in partnership with the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. The study finds that Black women in the United States are disproportionately segregated into low-wage service and [...]

By Anthony Pignataro On a day of depressing news, here’s something else for you to ponder over: women aged 65 and older in Hawaii are more likely to live in poverty than men of the same age. So says a new report titled “The Economic [...]

By Taylor Crumpton Historically, black women have been leaders in organizing against social injustices and securing rights for their communities. Their efforts were essential to the women's suffrage movement and the Voting Rights Act, and they are currently at work to change discriminatory laws that lessen [...]

By Gillian B. White The importance of women’s economic health in the black community is hard to overstate. That’s in part because black women tend to shoulder a lot of their households’ financial burden. More than 80 percent of black mothers are the breadwinners (defined as [...]