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New Report Shows Young Women Workers Still Struggling a Decade After the Great Recession, Offers Lessons for the Pandemic Recovery

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – May 25, 2021 Contact: Erin Weber | weber@iwpr.org | (646) 719-7021 Washington, D.C. – A new report from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research shows that a disproportionate number of young women (ages 16 to 24) worked part-time involuntarily and earned low [...]

Why It’s Hard to Hire Right Now

In the past few weeks, 22 states have announced they would end federal pandemic unemployment benefits, which pay recipients $300 on top of state benefits and are scheduled to run into September. (New Hampshire is the latest.) Many of the states’ governors, all Republicans, made [...]

May 22, 2021|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: , , , , , |

Child Care at Core of Women’s Slow Post-Pandemic Return to Work

By Katie Kindelan In 1971, Congress passed the Comprehensive Child Development Act, legislation that would have established a network of nationally funded, comprehensive child care centers. But President Richard Nixon vetoed the legislation, and Congress has not passed anything similar in the five decades since. [...]

May 18, 2021|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: , , , , , , |

World’s 50 Greatest Leaders

C. Nicole Mason Title: President and CEO | Affiliation: Institute for Women's Policy Research In May 2020, after women accounted for more than 11 million jobs lost in one month of pandemic-related shutdowns, Mason sounded the alarm about the looming (and, a year later, still ongoing) [...]

May 12, 2021|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: , , |

Why Is Re-entering the Workforce So Hard on Moms?

By Heidi Borst In April 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Nicole Peyer, 44, of Oakland, CA, was furloughed from her job as a sales consultant for a national wine and spirits distribution company. After four months, Peyer was rehired, but her needs [...]

STEMMing the Tide of Women’s Progress

By Rosalind C. Barnett and Caryl Rivers Women and girls weren’t doing very well in STEMM (science, technology, engineering, math, and medicine) before the Covid 19 pandemic. Despite accounting for over half of the college-educated workforce, women in the United States made up only 29% [...]

May 12, 2021|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: , , , , |