No Simple Solution While no other state quite matches Louisiana’s affordability, some have recently introduced similar plans. New York and North Carolina both passed new budgets including expanded childcare tax credits. In the meantime, President Trump’s multipronged childcare proposalwould allow couples making up to $500,000, [...]

By Vanessa Williams A new report about the nation’s black women paints a familiar portrait of a group that is working hard on many levels to achieve the American Dream but is still falling short. Black women vote at high rates, have made significant improvement [...]

By Nora Caplan-Bricker It’s a familiar adage that black Americans have to work twice as hard to get half as far as their white counterparts—and that black women, oppressed by the intersecting forces of sexism and racism, have to struggle even more. Now, a sweeping [...]

By Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press Institute for Women's Policy Research. "Without those resources, options are very limited." As many as 74% of women surveyed at domestic violence shelters reported that they stayed with an abuser longer because of financial issues, she said, citing a 2012 Mary [...]

By Kristen Bellstrom The WSJ piece, like similar stories on executive comp, focuses on pay data for a small and elite group of chiefs. In this case, it's the leaders of S&P 500 companies—just 21 of whom are female. Given that sample size, it's difficult to [...]

By Lily Dancyger It’s definitely important for researchers to continue to try to understand the many interlocking factors that contribute to imbalances of power – after all, there’s evidence that female bosses make for more engaged, productive employees. But this research must be conducted and [...]