Treading Water: The Current Challenges of Women’s Work
In order to improve the economic security of all working women, policymakers must address the challenges women face in the workforce by improving workplace standards, protections, and benefits.
In order to improve the economic security of all working women, policymakers must address the challenges women face in the workforce by improving workplace standards, protections, and benefits.
Worker leadership and mobilization, state and local policy innovations, and industry commitments must be part of a collective, comprehensive, and holistic strategy to eliminate sex-based, discriminatory workplace practices.
A closer look at regional differences in apprenticeship programs spotlights the disparate outcomes that result from place, race, and gender and how these interact to exacerbate pay inequities.
As attacks to women’s health and rights ramp up on the federal level, states have an opportunity to advance progressive policies to protect women and their families.
Using new data, this fact sheet update shows that despite making up a majority of the U.S. population, women lag substantially behind men when it comes to their representation in leadership positions.
Although sexual assault remains a pervasive issue on college campuses, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos is planning to undermine survivors through new, regressive changes to Title IX.
Military service members, veterans, and their families have many reasons they need leave, and, along with all Americans, need comprehensive paid family and medical leave policies.
This week, Daniella and Ed sit down with Center for American Progress' President and CEO Neera Tanden to discuss the 2018 midterm elections, policy priorities for the new Congress, and the firing of Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Women need comprehensive solutions that recognize the persistent role of race, ethnicity, and economic status in creating obstacles to opportunity for pregnant women.
Each election, survivors of intimate partner violence face unique barriers that can prevent them from voting.
Given the increasing levels of gun violence in the state, elected leaders in Missouri should reject dangerous gun laws and push for policies that reduce gun violence and protect the safety of every Missourian.
The dismissive attitude toward sexual assault allegations displayed during the Kavanaugh hearings is a stark reminder that, even during a time of heightened awareness, survivors still face an uphill fight for fairness.
As President Trump’s judicial nominees are being rubber-stamped at a record pace, the scourge of sexual harassment in the judiciary will only worsen if left unchecked.
In order to advance economic security for women and families in each state, policymakers should prioritize policies that ensure economic equality and health care access for all.
In order to advance economic security for women and families in New Hampshire, policymakers should prioritize policies that ensure economic equality and health care access for all.