Publications
Essential but Undervalued: Systemic Barriers Facing Black Women in Social Work
Black women have faced systemic racial and gender discrimination in the labor force, and although historically they have had high labor force participation rates, they tend to be overrepresented in care and service jobs. As such, an intersectional lens is key to understanding Black [...]
The Generational Wage Gap: Pay Equity Decades Away for Women Overall, Centuries Away for Women of Color
The generational wage gap shows just how far we still are from pay equity. At today’s pace, women won’t reach equal pay with men until at least 2071—and for many women of color, pay equity is still centuries away. With the wage gap widening [...]
Threats to Women’s Reproductive Freedom and Maternal Health
This policy brief focuses on the OBBB’s impacts on women’s reproductive justice and health equity, specifically on the issues outlined in IWPR’s Promoting Access to Abortion and Maternal Health policy briefs. More than three years after the Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade, [...]
Threats to Care and Family Support: Impacts of the OBBB on Women and Families
This policy brief focuses on the OBBB’s impacts on women’s caregiving and families, specifically on the issues outlined in IWPR’s Promoting Access to Care and Tax Credits for Families policy briefs. Millions of women face exorbitant costs for care and find it difficult, if [...]
Native American Women Face the Highest Gender Wage Gap, Earning Barely Half of What White Men Make
This year, November 18 marks Native Women’s Equal Pay Day. In 2023, at the median, all employed Native American women, whether they worked full-time, part-time, full-year, or part-year, earned 53.6 cents per dollar compared to White men, and Native American women working full-time year- [...]
Threats to Women’s Economic Livelihoods: Impacts of the OBBB on Women and Families
This policy brief focuses on the One Big Beautiful Bill's (OBBB) impacts on women’s equitable work and wages, specifically on the issues outlined in IWPR’s Equal Pay, Minimum Wage, Better Workplaces, and Retirement and Social Security policy briefs. As millions of women experience a [...]
