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Five years after Katrina… Black women, children and the poor most vulnerable Poor women remain 'in limbo,' study finds
"Women of color remained, returned, or moved to New Orleans in low numbers relative to white women in the five years since Hurricane Katrina and the flooding of the city, according to fact sheets released Friday by the Institute for Women's Policy Research... 'We've spoken [...]
'Mancession' Continues Despite Gains
Mark Perry, a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, points to possible sectoral shifts in the economy, and to the fact that women now outnumber men in college, as indications that future recessions will also be "mancessions." "If we are talking about this continuing [...]
Women: How Higher Education Doesn’t Pay
Gotta love it: the more education women get, the more they fall behind male peers in pay. It’s one of those conundrums - there are so many in the wage gap morass - that just doesn’t make sense. Thank goodness the Institute for Women’s Policy [...]
Study: Less Black Women in Post-Katrina New Orleans
Fewer Black women remained, returned or moved to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, according to a new report by the Institute for Women's Policy Research, reports the Louisiana Weekly. While Black women continue to be the largest group of women in New Orleans, the population [...]
Five years after Katrina… Black women, children and the poor most vulnerable Poor women remain ‘in limbo,’ study finds
"Women of color remained, returned, or moved to New Orleans in low numbers relative to white women in the five years since Hurricane Katrina and the flooding of the city, according to fact sheets released Friday by the Institute for Women's Policy Research... 'We've spoken [...]
‘Mancession’ Continues Despite Gains
Mark Perry, a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, points to possible sectoral shifts in the economy, and to the fact that women now outnumber men in college, as indications that future recessions will also be "mancessions." "If we are talking about this continuing [...]