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Child-Care Crisis Keeps U.S. Women Out of Workforce for Longer

BNN Bloomberg  By Molly Smith and Jill Shah (Bloomberg) -- School may be in session, but the dearth of child care is still proving to be a major hurdle to women reentering the U.S. labor market. The number of women on payrolls last month fell [...]

October 12, 2021|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: , |

What the Front Line of the U.S. Abortion Fight in Kentucky Looks Like Now

Bloomberg Politics + Equality  By Greg Stohr A woman seeking to end a pregnancy in Kentucky after 14 weeks has one choice: She enters a brick building on the edge of downtown Louisville after running a gantlet of abortion opponents determined to change her mind. Patients [...]

October 12, 2021|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: , |

Jobs Report Shows First Decline in Payroll Employment for Women Since December 2020

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 8, 2021 Contact: William Lutz | lutz@iwpr.org | Jobs Report Shows First Decline in Payroll Employment for Women Since December 2020 Washington, DC – This month’s jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) continues to show that America’s women face enormous challenges returning [...]

October 8, 2021|Categories: Press Releases|Tags: , |

42% of Women Say They Have Consistently Felt Burned Out at Work in 2021

TIME By Eliana Dockterman Both men and women are feeling even more burned out in 2021 than they were in 2020. Given that the labor force is sojourning through a second year of dangerous work conditions, a lack of childcare options and unprecedented workforce dropout, the fact [...]

October 7, 2021|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: , |

Nobel Prize-Winning Economist: The World of Long Work Hours Is Ripe for a Revolution

CNBC By Alicia Doniger At the pandemic’s outset, many labor experts doubted that a professional work culture long defined by commutes and cubicles was ready to truly embrace remote employment. That’s changed. The next revolution on the job? According to Nobel Prize-winning MIT economist Esther [...]

October 7, 2021|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: , |