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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

High quality on-site childcare helps these students beat the odds and graduate By LIZ WILLEN I met Butcher while spending a day watching the comings and goings at BMCC’s center in downtown Manhattan, which serves about 300 parents a year at the City University of [...]