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Black & Latinx Women Hit Hardest By Job Loss — Let’s Talk About Why
Black & Latinx Women Hit Hardest By Job Loss — Let’s Talk About Why

Black & Latinx Women Hit Hardest By Job Loss — Let’s Talk About Why

By Sa'iyda Shabazz When COVID hit and the stay-at-home orders began, some women were losing their jobs due to closures, while others were forced out to care for their families as schools and daycares closed. In December, a report was released showing that women accounted [...]

January 21, 2021|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: COVID-19, Pandemic, Recession, Scary Mommy, Unemployment|

IWPR Statement on the Establishment of Council for Gender Policy, and Appointees
IWPR Statement on the Establishment of Council for Gender Policy, and Appointees

IWPR Statement on the Establishment of Council for Gender Policy, and Appointees

IWPR Statement—We applaud the Biden administration's establishment of the Council for Gender Policy and the appointments of Jennifer Klein, Chief Strategy and Policy Officer, Times Up and Julissa Reynoso Pantaleón, Chief of Staff to Dr. Jill Biden to co-lead the office. Employing an intersectional framework, the Council [...]

January 19, 2021|Categories: Press Releases|

JPMorgan Sees Biden’s Stimulus Cutting Unemployment to Less Than 5% by Year End
JPMorgan Sees Biden’s Stimulus Cutting Unemployment to Less Than 5% by Year End

JPMorgan Sees Biden’s Stimulus Cutting Unemployment to Less Than 5% by Year End

by Juliana Kaplan In December 2020, the unemployment rate was 6.7%. December also saw a surprise decline of 140,000 jobs on nonfarm payrolls, with 10 million Americans still unemployed. That unemployment rate is still just a percentage of the pandemic's peak of 14.7%. In her [...]

January 19, 2021|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: Business Insider, COVID-19, Pandemic, Recession, Unemployment|

Will Biden’s Stimulus Package Help Reverse the ‘Shecession’?
Will Biden’s Stimulus Package Help Reverse the ‘Shecession’?

Will Biden’s Stimulus Package Help Reverse the ‘Shecession’?

By Alisha Haridasani Gupta From the get go, this economic crisis has been markedly different from previous ones: It wasn’t caused by geopolitical or financial forces, and it disproportionately affected women. A bulk of the jobs that vanished at the start of the coronavirus pandemic [...]

January 18, 2021|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: COVID-19, Jobs, Pandemic, The New York Times NYT, Unemployment|

The Retirement Crisis for Women of Color
The Retirement Crisis for Women of Color

The Retirement Crisis for Women of Color

by Tatiana Walk-Morris Gender disparities throughout their careers lead women to receive Social Security benefits that are, on average, 80 percent of what men receive, according to the Brookings Institution. Add in racial inequality—census data shows that Black women make 61 cents on the dollar [...]

January 18, 2021|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: DAME Magazine, Income Inequality, Jobs, Retirement, Wealth Gap|

Why Big Data Is Failing Women in STEM and How To Fix It
Why Big Data Is Failing Women in STEM and How To Fix It

Why Big Data Is Failing Women in STEM and How To Fix It

By Joan Michelson Big Data dominates our economy. Yet, we don’t have consistent, standardized and real-time data on the jobs driving that 21st century-Big Data economy: science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). Especially for women. In the labyrinth of sources, the government’s Bureau of Labor [...]

January 17, 2021|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: Forbes, Jobs, Occupational Segregation, STEM|

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Black & Latinx Women Hit Hardest By Job Loss — Let’s Talk About Why

IWPR Statement on the Establishment of Council for Gender Policy, and Appointees

JPMorgan Sees Biden’s Stimulus Cutting Unemployment to Less Than 5% by Year End

Will Biden’s Stimulus Package Help Reverse the ‘Shecession’?

The Retirement Crisis for Women of Color

Why Big Data Is Failing Women in STEM and How To Fix It

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