Care Conference 2024: Crafting Solutions—Unblocking Progress toward Gender and Racial Economic Equity
This is the sixth and final blog in a [...]
Care Conference 2024: The Care Infrastructure—Measuring Gaps and Identifying Resources for Closing Them
This is the third blog in a series detailing the [...]
IWPR Releases New Poll Detailing the Concerns of Caregivers and Women in the Workforce
Care is the cornerstone of economic activity, yet it [...]
Care Conference 2024!
Care is the cornerstone of economic activity, yet it remains [...]
Maine’s Latest Budget Establishes State’s First Paid Leave Program and Boosts Child Care
This week, Governor Janet Mills signed into law Maine’s latest [...]
Webinar: The Gender Wage Gap and Occupational Segregation: Tackling the Undervaluation of Human Services and Care Work
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Care Workers Join Older Adult and Disability Advocates to Call for Vital Reforms
Last week, disability rights advocates were joined by caregiving professionals and policymakers at a rally in Washington, DC, to call for much-needed investment in the care infrastructure. Rally participants delivered the call to invest in care—with a focus on home and community-based services and living wages for direct care workers—at an important moment, as Congress continues to debate legislature that would provide critical funding like the Build Back Better Act and its reincarnations.
Who gives care during the Covid-19 pandemic?
People around the world are feeling the pressures of caring for children and other loved ones without paid care services and the support of extended family and social networks. Due to decades of disinvestment and discriminatory policies, many families’ care and support needs were unmet before the pandemic. The loss of normal care structures has pushed many already-marginalized families to the brink.
America Never Valued Care Workers. Then a Pandemic Hit.
By Bryce Covert Now everyone knows teachers, child care providers, and [...]
Providing Unpaid Household and Care Work in the United States: Uncovering Inequality
In the United States, women spend considerably more time than men over their lifetime doing unpaid household and care work. The unequal distribution of this work—work that is essential for families and societies to thrive—not only limits women’s career choices and economic empowerment, but also affects their overall health and well-being.
