By @ElissaNadworny "When you're a parent, you're spending hours upon hours each day providing care to your kids," says Lindsey Reichlin Cruse, who studies student parents at the Institute for Women's Policy Research. "When you layer that on top of college courses, studying, group projects, [...]

By Alyssa Newcomb It gets even more dire. While the Equal Pay Act was passed in 1963, the Institute for Women’s Policy Research forecasts that pay parity won’t be reached in the United States until 2059, nearly 100 years after the legislation passed. >>Read more

By Caitlin Mullen, Bizwomen contributor A report from The Institute for Women’s Policy Research notes that although the African-American women’s workforce participation has historically been high — in 2017, that group’s labor force participation rate was 60.3 percent, compared to white and Hispanic women’s 56.4 percent — [...]

By Michelle Chen The evidence bears out women's choices; the long-term effects of abortion restrictions could be economically devastating for low income women. According to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, in the decades following Roe, abortion access has been correlated with increased labor force participation, as [...]