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Report Highlights Economic Impact of Reproductive Rights

By Andrea Sears NEW YORK -- An online tool from the Institute for Women's Policy Research makes the case that ending reproductive health restrictions is good for women and good for business. More than 500 bills restricting or banning abortion have been introduced across 46 [...]

Women Who Lost Jobs in Pandemic May Wait Years to Work Again

By Francesca Chambers Women who lost their jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic could be waiting until 2023 to work again, experts warn, even if economic initiatives President Joe Biden has proposed become law. It could take more than two years for women’s employment to return [...]

May 28, 2021|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: , , , , , , |

Economic Recovery Could Take Years for Women Who Lost Jobs During Pandemic — Even with Biden’s Plans

By Francesca Chambers Women who lost their jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic could be waiting until 2023 to work again, experts warn, even if economic initiatives President Joe Biden has proposed become law. It could take more than two years for women’s employment to return [...]

How Colleges Tell Student-Parents They Don’t Belong

By Nicole Lynn Lewis As a former young mother in college—at 19, I possessed both a beautiful infant daughter and an acceptance letter to the prestigious William & Mary but no clear path to my degree—I have a firsthand understanding of the various ways in [...]

May 26, 2021|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: , , , , |

How to Cure the She-Cession: 15 Moves to Help Working Women Recover

By Kerri Anne Renzulli More than 4.5 million fewer women are working now than at the start of the pandemic, setting women's participation rate in the workforce back more than 30 years. A combination of layoffs, particularly in female-dominated fields hit hard by COVID like [...]

May 26, 2021|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: , , , , , , , |

Exclusive: Pandemic Could Cost Typical American Woman Nearly $600,000 in Lifetime Income

By Emily Peck New signs of the nation's expanding recovery from the pandemic crop up every day, but for millions of women in the U.S. the economic punch of COVID may never be over. Long after the face masks have been tucked away and the [...]

May 26, 2021|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: , , , , |