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Despite modest employment gains, women still 5.5 million jobs below pre-pandemic level. Unemployment for Black and Hispanic women remains high.

New October jobs data show women remain 5.5 million jobs below February's levels. Despite women gaining 280,000 (43.9 percent) of 638,000 new non-farm payroll jobs since October and adult women having lower unemployment rates (6.5 percent) than men (6.7 percent) for the first time since April, stubborn trends continue.

November 6, 2020|Categories: Press Releases|Tags: , , , |

Summit Focuses Equity Lens on Student Parent Success

By Dynahlee Padilla The experiences of student parents pursuing a college education amid the COVID-19 pandemic was the focus of Thursday’s Achieving the Dream Student Parent Success Summit. A number of leaders, speakers and attendees across all disciplines at educational institutions and community-based organizations participated [...]

November 5, 2020|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: , , , |

What Does a College Student Look Like? Stock Images From the Quad Are Getting an Update

By Eric Hoover Long before many people enroll in college, they see a version of it on glowing screens. Movies, television shows, and photographs flood our eyeballs with images of college students, shaping our understanding of whom higher education serves. The more folks we see [...]

The Real Cost of Unequal Pay for Latinas

By Lola Méndez Dannie Fountain, who has been an account representative at Google in Chicago for three years, claims she received her first promotion recently with a 24% pay increase. “I paid just as much for my college education as the white men who are [...]

October 29, 2020|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: , , , |

‘If We Had a Panic Button, We’d be Hitting it.’ Women Are Exiting the Labor Force En Masse—And That’s Bad For Everyone

The United States is in the midst of a crushing economic recession, COVID-19 infection rates are spiking, and thousands of schools and childcare facilities have yet to reopen in-person classrooms. The group bearing the brunt of this torrent of bad news? Women.

October 17, 2020|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: , , , , |