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Women Not Projected to Reach Parity in US Congress Until 2108

New IWPR analysis finds women will have to wait until the next century to hold as many Congressional seats as their male counterparts Contact: Lea Woods | 202-785-5100 | woods@iwpr.org  Washington, DC— The number of U.S. Congressional seats held by women will not reach parity [...]

March 5, 2020|Categories: Press Releases|

U.S. women have lost 3 times more office jobs than men have

BY KHRISTOPHER J. BROOKS The Fed's study squares with other research showing that jobs historically dominated by women are increasingly vulnerable to automation. About half a million office and administrative jobs are expected to disappear in six years, according to a recent analysis from the Institute for Women's [...]

March 4, 2020|Categories: Press Hits|

Milwaukee’s Black Women Business Owners Building On Pockets Of Success

By Corrinne Hess About 2 percent of venture capital funding goes to females, according to the Kauffman Foundation. And more than 20 percent of black entrepreneurs say lack of access to capital has affected their ability to be profitable, according to the foundation. "It is systemic [...]

March 3, 2020|Categories: Press Hits|

Reproductive well-being of future generations is hanging in the balance

BY GINNY EHRLICH It creates a world in which, just by virtue of zip code and income, some women will have no or severely limited access to abortion — an absurdly arbitrary way of a country affording constitutional rights to some and not others. Women [...]

March 2, 2020|Categories: Press Hits|

Sick employees should stay home to fight coronavirus. But many don’t have sick leave

By Kathryn Vasel More than half of private sector workers in the leisure and hospitality industries, which tend to have a lot of face-to-face time with the public at places like restaurants and hotels, don't have access to paid sick leave. "We know that when people go [...]

February 29, 2020|Categories: Press Hits|

Inequalities of US health system put coronavirus fight at risk, experts say

Amanda Holpuch To contain coronavirus, the CDC emphasized how important it would be to avoid crowds, work from home and even self-quarantine. In the only wealthy country in the world which does not require employers to give workers paid sick days, that guidance is difficult to follow. [...]

February 28, 2020|Categories: Press Hits|