It’s another Friday Jobs Day, and women are holding strong! Unemployment rates in September remained stable or decreased for women overall (3.7 percent in August vs. 3.6 percent in September), Black women (5.5 percent vs 5.3 percent), Latinas (5.0 percent vs. 4.8...
If your kid woke up with a cough and fever, would you be able to take time off to visit urgent care, or have to show up at your work shift so you don't get fired? If you came down with flu or COVID, could you stay home to recover or would that mean missing a paycheck...
School has started and a soft landing still seems possible. New #JobsDay data continues to show a slowing job market with some bright spots for women, but continuing struggles for teachers.
We might be boiling in this record heat wave, but the economy is starting to cool. Inflation might be inching down, but new #JobsDay data shows a slowing job market, with some yellow flags for the care economy.
People in the U.S. do more than $1 trillion in unpaid caregiving annually. Asian women and Latinas do the most unpaid caregiving per capita of any group.
Gender justice requires identifying and addressing inequities for all lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex and other sexual and gender minority (LGBTQI+) people.
Which states have the most to gain from investments like paid leave? We crunched the numbers in our Paid Leave Means A Stronger Nation fact sheet series – a state-by-state look at the growing need for paid family and medical leave laws.
Recent budget proposals by the Biden administration and Republicans in Congress show how the two parties plan to support – or not – women and families.
Many don’t realize the gender wage gap continues to impact women beyond working years. With longer life expectancies than men, the gender wage gap quickly turns into a retirement income gap, meaning women have fewer resources to stretch over longer periods when they may be unable to work or more vulnerable to health complications.
The United States is still a country of haves and have nots when it comes to essential family-supporting benefits like paid family leave.
Women in the United States do twice as much caregiving as men, though both men and women face financial burdens due to unpaid carework.
Women still hold only 14 percent of jobs in the construction industry and 29 percent in manufacturing.
New data reveal employment challenges for young women veterans, veterans of color, and disabled veterans.
There are many contributing factors to the wage gap, including racism, sexual harassment, and a lack of family-friendly policies. For Equal Pay Day this year, our team took a closer look at occupational segregation.
Today’s new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics for February reveal that the economy is starting to show signs of softening and that gains for women of color – who have long been marginalized in the labor market – are at risk.
This month’s #JobsReport drops at the beginning of #BlackHistoryMonth – so we took a close look at how Black women are faring. And it’s pretty clear that while Black women have done a lot for the economy, the economy – and policymakers – need to do a lot more for Black women.
Today the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its annual data on union members in the United States, showing small declines in the rate of union membership over the last year. Our analysis shows that while unions raise wages – especially for women – far too few workers were able to access their benefits in 2022.
Well, it’s Moms’ Equal Pay Day again. All the way in September. That’s right – a typical mother would have to work nine additional months into 2022 just to be paid what fathers made in 2021. And wow, has it been a tough nine months for moms in the United States.
Why observe Equal Pay Day, year after year, if it’s such a bummer? Because the wage gap is a way of talking about the tangible consequences that sexism and racism in our economy have on women. And it touches so many women year after year, no matter their occupation, education level or age.
Eighty years ago today, the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) – the cornerstone of labor protections for working people in the United States – was enacted. While its protections for working people remain in place today, so, unfortunately, do its exclusions, which disproportionately harm women and people of color.
