How does your state stack up when it comes to supporting working moms and dads? A new report out Wednesday from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research rates the 50 states on a Work & Family Composite Index , which factors in access to paid [...]

For almost every student on campus, juggling classes and a part-time job may be a difficult task to undertake on a day-to-day basis. However, for Cal State L.A. students who are mothers, daily responsibilities do not stop with homework or a late night study session, [...]

South Dakota is the worst state for women’s reproductive rights, while Oregon ranks as the best, according to a new report . The Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) released new data last week on reproductive rights, sexual violence, and women’s health as part of [...]

Rep. Gwen Moore had a confession to make: She had sold herself short. “I was the one who stayed up all night and wrote the brilliant speech,” she said Wednesday at a conference here. “ I was the one who crunched the numbers and made [...]

If the White House had relied on data to drive policy, My Brother’s Keeper should have included both genders, said a February report from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR), another think tank. The institute reviewed 114 data-based assertions made in a White House [...]

The concept of the American family unit still centers around the notion that child care is supposed to be borne on the backs of each parent, who’s expected to make the necessary sacrifices to provide care. But finding child care for working families isn’t just [...]