Some American colleges are finding answers to a question that has bedeviled employers and policy makers alike: how to get more women into the high-paying, in-demand fields that drive today’s economy. Those schools, a new analysis finds, are using a range of strategies — from [...]

Taken together with some other recent studies, the gender diversity picture is still starkly off balance. For example, McKinsey and LeanIn.org found that we are more than 100 years away from seeing women occupy the C-suite in half of the major businesses in the U.S. [...]

"A big part of the paid leave story right now is playing out on the state and local level," Jeffrey Hayes, study director at the Institute for Women's Policy Research , tells ELLE.com. He thinks that this will eventually lead to a country-wide policy, even [...]

The annual cost of day care for infants in most states now exceeds a year of public college tuition, an issue that has become a significant problem for the nation's labor force. Because day care devours at least 30 percent of a minimum-wage worker’s earnings [...]

“In terms of whether there are negatives for women, I can only think of [anecdotal evidence],” said Institute for Women’s Policy Research VP and executive director Barbara Gault. “I haven’t seen any research showing that there are negatives, but [even] if women are choosing not [...]

In an emailed statement, Grosso said he worked with his staff to model the implications of such a robust program, including tax numbers, employee numbers and the preliminary findings of the Institute for Women's Policy Research — a group commissioned by the Department of Labor [...]