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COVID-19 is forcing women out of work. Can Biden help them get back on the job?
COVID-19 is forcing women out of work. Can Biden help them get back on the job?

COVID-19 is forcing women out of work. Can Biden help them get back on the job?

By Francesca Chambers So many women have dropped out of the workforce during the pandemic that the Biden administration has said it is an emergency and warned of a setback so severe that it could stand in the way of a full economic recovery. The [...]

March 21, 2021|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: COVID-19, Jobs, Pandemic, Recession, Telegraph Herald, Unemployment|

New IWPR Report Reveals Urgent Need to Support Student Parents’ Return to College amid Challenges Exacerbated by the Pandemic
New IWPR Report Reveals Urgent Need to Support Student Parents’ Return to College amid Challenges Exacerbated by the Pandemic

New IWPR Report Reveals Urgent Need to Support Student Parents’ Return to College amid Challenges Exacerbated by the Pandemic

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MARCH 16, 2021 Contact: Erin Weber | 646-719-7021 | weber@iwpr.org More than one-third (35 percent) of adults who earned some college credit, but not a degree, are parents of children under 18. Students with children are nearly twice as likely to leave [...]

March 16, 2021|Categories: Press Releases|Tags: COVID-19, Higher Education, Pandemic, Student Parent Success Initiative SPSI|

Gender wage gap shrank because of COVID-19, but that’s not a good thing
Gender wage gap shrank because of COVID-19, but that’s not a good thing

Gender wage gap shrank because of COVID-19, but that’s not a good thing

By Thuy Lan Nguyen Millions of people have been put out of work by the COVID-19 pandemic. We know women have been more impacted by pandemic job loss than men largely because industries hit hardest by the virus, hospitality and retail, are mostly led by women. [...]

March 14, 2021|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: COVID-19, Gender Wage Gap, Pandemic, Recession, WSTP|

Big Bold Relief Bill Will Help Millions of Women and Families and Will Lead to the End the She-cession
Big Bold Relief Bill Will Help Millions of Women and Families and Will Lead to the End the She-cession

Big Bold Relief Bill Will Help Millions of Women and Families and Will Lead to the End the She-cession

Washington, DC – IWPR applauds the House and the Senate and President Biden for enacting the American Rescue Plan, an historic relief package that will uplift women and families. “Women and families are facing extraordinary challenges that require bold solutions,” said C. Nicole Mason, PhD, President and CEO of the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR). “Now they will finally get some of the help they need to survive the pandemic with the delivery of this landmark relief package.”

March 12, 2021|Categories: Press Releases|

All Together Now
All Together Now

All Together Now

Eleanor LeCain talks about the “Shecession” – the impact of the pandemic on women economically – and how the American Rescue Plan will help women and families, with Ariane Hegewisch, Program Director of Employment and Earnings at the Institute for Women’s Policy Research in Washington, DC (www.iwpr.org). Listen [...]

March 12, 2021|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: COVID-19, Progressive Radio Voices, Working Mothers|

Women have taken a staggering Covid hit. Now they offer the best hopes for the future
Women have taken a staggering Covid hit. Now they offer the best hopes for the future

Women have taken a staggering Covid hit. Now they offer the best hopes for the future

By Marianne Schnall On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a pandemic. One year later, the world is still struggling with the myriad ways it has impacted our lives and created hardship for so many -- especially women and girls, Black, indigenous [...]

March 12, 2021|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: CNN, COVID-19, Recession|

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COVID-19 is forcing women out of work. Can Biden help them get back on the job?

New IWPR Report Reveals Urgent Need to Support Student Parents’ Return to College amid Challenges Exacerbated by the Pandemic

Gender wage gap shrank because of COVID-19, but that’s not a good thing

Big Bold Relief Bill Will Help Millions of Women and Families and Will Lead to the End the She-cession

All Together Now

Women have taken a staggering Covid hit. Now they offer the best hopes for the future

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