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World’s 50 Greatest Leaders
World’s 50 Greatest Leaders

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: C. Nicole Mason, Fortune, World's 50 Greatest Leaders|

STEMMing the Tide of Women’s Progress
STEMMing the Tide of Women’s Progress

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: COVID-19, Jobs, Women in STEMM, Women's E News, Workforce Development|

New IWPR Report on the Economic Impact of Equal Pay by State Shows Equal Pay Reduces Poverty for Working Women Across the Country in Every State
New IWPR Report on the Economic Impact of Equal Pay by State Shows Equal Pay Reduces Poverty for Working Women Across the Country in Every State

New IWPR Report on the Economic Impact of Equal Pay by State Shows Equal Pay Reduces Poverty for Working Women Across the Country in Every State

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – May 11, 2021 Contact: Erin Weber | weber@iwpr.org | (646) 719-7021 Washington, D.C. – A new report from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) on the Economic Impact of Equal Pay finds that if women were paid the same as [...]

May 11, 2021|Categories: Press Releases|Tags: Equal Pay / Pay Equity, Gender Wage Gap, Pay Gap, Poverty|

Mother’s Day Surprise: Women Lose Jobs and Continue to Leave the Labor Force While Unemployment Among Black and Latina Women Remains High
Mother’s Day Surprise: Women Lose Jobs and Continue to Leave the Labor Force While Unemployment Among Black and Latina Women Remains High

Mother’s Day Surprise: Women Lose Jobs and Continue to Leave the Labor Force While Unemployment Among Black and Latina Women Remains High

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – May 7, 2021 Contact: Erin Weber | weber@iwpr.org | (646) 719-7021 Washington, DC — This month’s jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics was not the present millions of women wanted for Mothers’ Day. The number of women who hold [...]

May 7, 2021|Categories: Press Releases|Tags: COVID-19, Jobs Day, Unemployment|

The Pandemic’s Economic Toll on Women Has Been Staggering—Now There’s an Estimate on the Price Tag
The Pandemic’s Economic Toll on Women Has Been Staggering—Now There’s an Estimate on the Price Tag

The Pandemic’s Economic Toll on Women Has Been Staggering—Now There’s an Estimate on the Price Tag

By Andrew Keshner All the money that women across the globe missed out on last year due to pandemic-related job losses and childcare obligations is more than the combined value of economies in 98 countries. That’s a new estimate from the global charity Oxfam, which [...]

May 2, 2021|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: COVID-19, MarketWatch, Pandemic, Recession, Unemployment, Working Mothers|

Biden Administration Proposes $1.8 trillion Plan for Childcare, Family Leave and Tuition-Free Community College
Biden Administration Proposes $1.8 trillion Plan for Childcare, Family Leave and Tuition-Free Community College

Biden Administration Proposes $1.8 trillion Plan for Childcare, Family Leave and Tuition-Free Community College

The Biden administration has proposed the next big bill on their economic agenda: a $1.8 trillion spending and tax proposal to fund paid family and medical leave, childcare, tuition-free community college, and a variety of other programs. The “American Families Plan” comes on the heels [...]

April 29, 2021|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: American Families Plan, COVID-19, Paid Leave, The Takeaway, WNYC Studios, Working Mothers|

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World’s 50 Greatest Leaders

STEMMing the Tide of Women’s Progress

New IWPR Report on the Economic Impact of Equal Pay by State Shows Equal Pay Reduces Poverty for Working Women Across the Country in Every State

Mother’s Day Surprise: Women Lose Jobs and Continue to Leave the Labor Force While Unemployment Among Black and Latina Women Remains High

The Pandemic’s Economic Toll on Women Has Been Staggering—Now There’s an Estimate on the Price Tag

Biden Administration Proposes $1.8 trillion Plan for Childcare, Family Leave and Tuition-Free Community College

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