Join us for IWPR’s 2026 Power+ Summit, The Power Grid: Driving Gender Equity Forward, taking place September 28–29 in Detroit, MI.
Together, we will spark bold ideas, share breakthroughs, and shape the future of gender equity.
“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, office hours … child care becomes a really critical piece of that puzzle.”