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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The New York Times By Peter Coy A dissent can seem cranky. Look, you lost. Don’t waste everyone’s time relitigating the case. On the other hand, a well-argued dissent can sustain the losing side, creating a foundation of logic and evidence on which to build [...]
