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A Decade’s Worth of Progress for Working Women Evaporated Overnight
A Decade’s Worth of Progress for Working Women Evaporated Overnight

A Decade’s Worth of Progress for Working Women Evaporated Overnight

By Shelly Banjo Men have not been spared, but preliminary research suggests women have been impacted disproportionately. The pandemic has already ushered in the highest unemployment rate since the Great Depression. Last year, women made up the majority of the U.S. workforce for the first [...]

June 3, 2020|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: Bloomberg, COVID-19, Pandemic, Unemployment|

America Never Valued Care Workers. Then a Pandemic Hit.
America Never Valued Care Workers. Then a Pandemic Hit.

America Never Valued Care Workers. Then a Pandemic Hit.

By Bryce Covert Now everyone knows teachers, child care providers, and health aides are essential workers. Will that finally get them the pay and protections they deserve? Care work, said Purdue University history professor Tithi Bhattacharya, is “life making and life sustaining.” Yet it “receives the [...]

June 1, 2020|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: Care Work, COVID-19, Pandemic, The Nation|

Unanswered Questions, Obvious Answers: Hunger in the Age of COVID
Unanswered Questions, Obvious Answers: Hunger in the Age of COVID

Unanswered Questions, Obvious Answers: Hunger in the Age of COVID

by ABBY J. LEIBMAN and LIZA LIEBERMAN For activists like us, it comes as no surprise that those who are most affected by these hostile actions are women—working women on the front lines as the majority of service workers, women who are single heads of households, women who are newly [...]

May 29, 2020|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: COVID-19, Ms., Pandemic|

‘You’re stuck’: America wants to reopen its economy. It won’t happen without schools or child care
‘You’re stuck’: America wants to reopen its economy. It won’t happen without schools or child care

‘You’re stuck’: America wants to reopen its economy. It won’t happen without schools or child care

By BRACEY HARRIS For all the talk of getting America back to work, the reality remains the same: Many working parents won’t come back if they don’t have somewhere safe for their kids. Nearly 200,000 Mississippians with children between the ages of 6 to 12 are [...]

May 29, 2020|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: Child Care, Recession, The Hechinger Report|

With women’s unemployment sky high, this recession is a ‘shecession,’ expert says
With women’s unemployment sky high, this recession is a ‘shecession,’ expert says

With women’s unemployment sky high, this recession is a ‘shecession,’ expert says

By Katie Kindelan via During the coronavirus pandemic, more than 38 million Americans have filed for unemployment insurance -- and for the first time in history, the nation's unemployment claims have a largely female, non-white face to them. While the two previous biggest economic crises in U.S. [...]

May 28, 2020|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: ABC News, Recession, Unemployment|

Coronavirus pandemic forces millions of working women into “impossible” roles
Coronavirus pandemic forces millions of working women into “impossible” roles

Coronavirus pandemic forces millions of working women into “impossible” roles

By KELSEY MICKLAS The unemployment crisis sparked by the global coronavirus pandemic has delivered an unprecedented blow to women in the United States -- hitting women of color particularly hard. Dr. Nicole Mason, President and CEO of the Institute for Women's Policy Research says that's largely due in [...]

May 28, 2020|Categories: Press Hits|Tags: CBS News, Child Care, COVID-19, Pandemic, Working Mothers|

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A Decade’s Worth of Progress for Working Women Evaporated Overnight

America Never Valued Care Workers. Then a Pandemic Hit.

Unanswered Questions, Obvious Answers: Hunger in the Age of COVID

‘You’re stuck’: America wants to reopen its economy. It won’t happen without schools or child care

With women’s unemployment sky high, this recession is a ‘shecession,’ expert says

Coronavirus pandemic forces millions of working women into “impossible” roles

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