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Americans Are Getting Back to Work, but Job Growth is Twice as High For Men Than For Women, and the Gender Jobs Deficit Widens
Americans Are Getting Back to Work, but Job Growth is Twice as High For Men Than For Women, and the Gender Jobs Deficit Widens

Americans Are Getting Back to Work, but Job Growth is Twice as High For Men Than For Women, and the Gender Jobs Deficit Widens

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Liz Rose | 202-355-3559 | rose@iwpr.org Washington, DC — While new Employment Situation data for March from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows a 315,000 increase in women’s jobs on payroll (34.4% of all added jobs), IWPR analysis of BLS data [...]

April 2, 2021|Categories: Press Releases|Tags: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment, Job Recovery, Jobs Day, March|

A year into COVID, child care issues still affect mothers’ employment
A year into COVID, child care issues still affect mothers’ employment

A year into COVID, child care issues still affect mothers’ employment

By Meghan McCarty Carino The economic downturn during the COVID-19 pandemic has had a disproportionate effect on women when it comes to job losses, and in particular mothers with young kids, according to a new report from the Brookings Institution. Industries that employ a lot [...]

April 2, 2021|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: Child Care, COVID-19, Marketplace, Pandemic, Recession, Working Mothers|

What the American Jobs Plan Will Mean for the Care Economy
What the American Jobs Plan Will Mean for the Care Economy

What the American Jobs Plan Will Mean for the Care Economy

On Wednesday afternoon, President Joe Biden traveled to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to unveil his $2 trillion plan to boost the economy and rebuild infrastructure across America. The sweeping proposal, called the American Jobs Plan, is part of President Biden’s “Build Back Better” agenda and will tackle [...]

April 1, 2021|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: Biden Administration, Care Infrastructure, COVID-19, Pandemic, Recession, The Takeaway, WNYC Studios|

Mothers Anxious to Break Out of ‘She-Cession’ and Get Back to Work
Mothers Anxious to Break Out of ‘She-Cession’ and Get Back to Work

Mothers Anxious to Break Out of ‘She-Cession’ and Get Back to Work

By Bianna Golodryga and Meridith Edwards New York (CNN) - Nearly a year after the coronavirus pandemic shuttered her son's school and her daughter's day care, Diana Limongi hit a wall. "I was in bed for three days, I thought I had Covid, but I [...]

April 1, 2021|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: Care Infrastructure, Child Care, CNN, COVID-19, Paid Leave, Recession, Working Mothers|

More Women Are Working in Trades Industry
More Women Are Working in Trades Industry

More Women Are Working in Trades Industry

By Kai Beech When it comes to her career, Maria Tsamasiros works with her brain and body. "I feel like I’m Popeye, because I use my right hand a lot more than my left hand,” she said. Tsamasiros has a bachelor’s degree in communications, a [...]

March 31, 2021|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: ABC 15, Jobs, Women in Trades|

As Biden pushes split infrastructure plan, working women see a make-or-break moment
As Biden pushes split infrastructure plan, working women see a make-or-break moment

As Biden pushes split infrastructure plan, working women see a make-or-break moment

By Eric Rosenbaum If President Biden’s infrastructure plan makes you first think of hard hats, roads and bridges — maybe in 2021, also wind, solar and electrical vehicles — you have not been paying attention as closely as many working women. On Capitol Hill, in [...]

March 30, 2021|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: Biden Administration, Child Care, CNBC, COVID-19, Infrastructure, Working Women|

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Americans Are Getting Back to Work, but Job Growth is Twice as High For Men Than For Women, and the Gender Jobs Deficit Widens

A year into COVID, child care issues still affect mothers’ employment

What the American Jobs Plan Will Mean for the Care Economy

Mothers Anxious to Break Out of ‘She-Cession’ and Get Back to Work

More Women Are Working in Trades Industry

As Biden pushes split infrastructure plan, working women see a make-or-break moment

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