Publications
Numbers Matter: Women Working in Construction in 2025
In 2025, women construction managers saw a decline in both their employment and their share of jobs. And while women’s share of construction apprentices improved slightly, they remain highly underrepresented. These numbers point to women’s resilience and staying power, but also show uneven progress [...]
AANHPI Women’s Equal Pay Day: Fact vs. Fiction About the Wage Gap
In 2024, Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) women earned approximately 83 cents for every dollar paid to non-Hispanic White men, a widely cited benchmark that offers an important snapshot of overall pay equity. However, when broken down by ethnicity, some groups—including [...]
Filling the Gap: Community College Students Expect Sexual Health Education on Campus
Decades of research point to the importance of comprehensive sex education for promoting health beliefs and behaviors that lead to healthier relationships and reduce young people’s risk for unplanned pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STIs). But a survey of community college students found that [...]
The Numbers Don’t Add Up: Women Continue to Earn Less, Regardless of Occupation
In 2025, women were paid less than men for full-time work in all 20 occupations that employ the most women and in all 20 occupations that employ the most men in the United States. Across all detailed occupations with sufficient data, women were paid up to [...]
Unseen Efforts: Disparities in Unpaid Care Work Before and After COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic brought to the fore the need for unpaid care work, as well as the highly unequal distribution of care work. This study contributes to the understanding of care work by providing post-COVID assessments of changes in unpaid caregiving by gender, race/ethnicity, [...]
One Year Into Trump’s Second Term, Black Women Face Disproportionate Job Losses
The most recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that Black women lost 251,000 jobs between January and August of 2025. While this number reflects a downward revision from a higher estimate last year, it still represents a large and unequal decrease [...]
