Child Care Subsidies Promote Mothers’ Employment and Children’s Development
In the current debate over welfare reauthorization, the importance of child care assistance for low-income and working families cannot be overstated.
Engaging Women in Environmental Activism: Recommendations for Rachel’s Network
In this report, the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) outlines key research findings that can help Rachel’s Network achieve these goals by better understanding women’s attitudes toward the environment, their activism around environmental issues, effective strategies for engaging women in environmental activism, and potential partners among women’s organizations for building a coalition around environmentalism.
The Children Left Behind: Deeper Poverty, Fewer Supports
This study examines the well-being of low-income children living with a single parent before and after welfare reform. Age and race/ethnicity variables are used to illuminate the range of impacts experienced by the children in the sample.
40-hour Work Proposal Significantly Raises Mothers’ Employment Standard
The 40-hour-a-week, year-round work requirement Congress is considering imposing on TANF recipients is substantially higher than the current level of mothers’ employment activity.
Before and After Welfare Reform: The Work and Well-Being of Low-Income Single Parent Families
This report is the tenth in a series of IWPR reports examining the income sources and employment of low-income families.
Survival at the Bottom: The Income Packages of Low-Income Families with Children
This study builds on previous IWPR work and provides information on the income packaging strategies and outcomes for a variety of low-income families with children in the United States during a time period prior to the welfare reform legislation of 1996.
Gender and Economic Security in Retirement
Gender and Economic Security in Retirement is the result of on-going research conducted at the Institute for Women’s Policy Research to analyze the economic status of women and men as they age.
Social Security: The Largest Source of Income for Both Women and Men in Retirement
This Briefing Paper examines major sources of income for older Americans—earnings, Social Security pensions and assets—by gender and marital status.
Winter 2003 Quarterly Newsletter
Is Feminism Dead? Many prominent American leaders argue that women have achieved equality or are at least close enough that feminism is no longer relevant to most women's lives.
Estimating the Benefits of Paid Family and Medical Leave: A Colloquium Report
This report summarizes a meeting co-hosted by the Institute of Women's Policy Research and the Institute of Industrial Relations of the University of California Berkeley in March 2002.
