by Barbara Humpton It's unlikely we can close the nation's STEM gender gap without granting more degrees in these fields to moms and making college and careers work for them. Mothers of dependent children comprise only 16% of US college students, according to the Institute [...]

By Julia Carpenter "If we think about office jobs — secretaries, receptionists — a lot of those things have been automated," says Chandra Childers, study director at the Institute for Women's Policy Research. "We're already seeing potential for that world to change." >>Read more

by Jamal Watson The new initiative was announced on Wednesday by Dr. Jill Biden, the former Second Lady who is also an English professor at Northern Virginia Community College. “Teaching isn’t just what I do,” Biden told the more than 2,400 Achieving the Dream (ATD) conference attendees who [...]

by Sarah Gantz, Paying those bills can be challenging for working women who had been counting on parental leave after giving birth. The United States does not have a standard parental leave policy, which means some may find their company doesn’t offer paid time off [...]

By Jesse Coburn and Matt Clark “Whenever you’re looking at issues like this, you cannot discount the possibility of discrimination,” Bellone said. "There may be discriminatory impact without there even being an intent.” Chandra Childers, a researcher at the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, a [...]

By ALIA WONG The trend is “odd,” Ingersoll and his co-authors—all education scholars and most of them former classroom teachers—write in the report. Generally speaking, starting in the 1970s the country’s occupations witnessed a significant decline in gender segregation as the number of women in the workforce soared. An index that [...]