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Modest Job Gains for Women Signal Slow Recovery—with Child Care and School Re-Openings as Major Barriers to Full Return to Work
Modest Job Gains for Women Signal Slow Recovery—with Child Care and School Re-Openings as Major Barriers to Full Return to Work

Modest Job Gains for Women Signal Slow Recovery—with Child Care and School Re-Openings as Major Barriers to Full Return to Work

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – June 4, 2021 Contact: Erin Weber | weber@iwpr.org | (646) 719-7021 This month’s jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) shows that more women returned to the workforce than men, and women gained employment. The Institute for Women’s Policy [...]

June 4, 2021|Categories: Press Releases|Tags: COVID-19, Jobs Day, Unemployment, Working Mothers|

Abortion Restrictions Cost Women, Businesses, and States $105 Billion Each Year
Abortion Restrictions Cost Women, Businesses, and States $105 Billion Each Year

Abortion Restrictions Cost Women, Businesses, and States $105 Billion Each Year

By Carrie N. Baker The Center on the Economics of Reproductive Health (CERH) at the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) last week released ground-breaking research showing just how costly abortion restrictions are to women, businesses and the economy. The bottom line is that state-level abortion restrictions cost the U.S. economy [...]

June 3, 2021|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: Abortion Restrictions, Center on the Economics of Reproductive Health, Ms. Magazine, Reproductive Health|

Study: Reproductive Restrictions Damage Working Women, State Economies
Study: Reproductive Restrictions Damage Working Women, State Economies

Study: Reproductive Restrictions Damage Working Women, State Economies

By Roz Brown AUSTIN, Texas - Access to birth control has been responsible for one third of women's wage gains since the 1960s, and restrictions on reproductive health could reverse those gains, according to the Institute for Women's Policy Research. The group has launched a [...]

June 3, 2021|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: Abortion Restrictions, Center on the Economics of Reproductive Health, Public News Service, Reproductive Rights, Texas|

From Tourism to Tool Belts: Post-COVID Opportunities for Women in New Orleans
From Tourism to Tool Belts: Post-COVID Opportunities for Women in New Orleans

From Tourism to Tool Belts: Post-COVID Opportunities for Women in New Orleans

By The IBEW Media Center “If someone doesn’t know what they want to do in life, they should join the IBEW or any other apprenticeship,” said New Orleans Local 130 apprentice Grace Kluesner in a webinar that accompanied the release of a report on women [...]

June 2, 2021|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: Construction and the Trades, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, New Orleans, Women in Construction, Women in the Trades|

Prioritizing Student Parent Success: A Conversation with Lindsey Reichlin Cruse, Institute for Women’s Policy Research
Prioritizing Student Parent Success: A Conversation with Lindsey Reichlin Cruse, Institute for Women’s Policy Research

Prioritizing Student Parent Success: A Conversation with Lindsey Reichlin Cruse, Institute for Women’s Policy Research

By Sandra J. Doran Nearly a quarter (22%) of today's undergraduates or 3.8 million students are parents, with student mothers making up 70% of that number. At Bay Path, approximately 20 percent of our undergraduate students are single mothers; a conservative estimate based on self-reported [...]

June 1, 2021|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: Bay Path University Blogs, Child Care, College, Paid Leave, Student Parents, Working Parents|

Relaxing Restrictions on Women’s Reproductive Rights is Positive for Economy, Study Shows
Relaxing Restrictions on Women’s Reproductive Rights is Positive for Economy, Study Shows

Relaxing Restrictions on Women’s Reproductive Rights is Positive for Economy, Study Shows

The Institute for Women’s Policy Research has released new research showing that policies restricting access to comprehensive reproductive health care are costly to women and states’ economies. Nevertheless, more than 500 bills restricting or banning abortion have been introduced across 46 states so far this [...]

June 1, 2021|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: Abortion Restrictions, Center on the Economics of Reproductive Health, Costs of Reproductive Health Restrictions, Reproductive Health, Reproductive Rights, State Broadcast News|

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Modest Job Gains for Women Signal Slow Recovery—with Child Care and School Re-Openings as Major Barriers to Full Return to Work

Abortion Restrictions Cost Women, Businesses, and States $105 Billion Each Year

Study: Reproductive Restrictions Damage Working Women, State Economies

From Tourism to Tool Belts: Post-COVID Opportunities for Women in New Orleans

Prioritizing Student Parent Success: A Conversation with Lindsey Reichlin Cruse, Institute for Women’s Policy Research

Relaxing Restrictions on Women’s Reproductive Rights is Positive for Economy, Study Shows

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