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Sep 11, 2025 |
“Most pay equity advocates are glad men’s earnings have increased, said Katherine Gallagher Robbins, senior research fellow for the National Partnership for Women & Families.
“‘Women are falling farther behind because they are not gaining at the same level that men are,’ Robbins said. ‘It’s good that men are gaining; we want to see those wages go up. We know families need it. But we also can’t be in the situation where we’re seeing women being left further and further behind.'”
Sep 11, 2025 |
“On the one hand, it’s a good sign that men’s wages increased last year, says Katherine Gallagher Robbins, a senior fellow at the National Partnership for Women and Families. And when considering part-time workers, women’s median earnings grew about 5% between 2023 and 2024.
“But overall, ‘the concerning part is that women’s wages are not keeping pace,’ Robbins tells CNBC Make It. ‘What we would like to see is everyone’s wages to be increasing and for that gap to be closing at the same time.'”
Sep 10, 2025 |
The pay gap between full-time working women and their male counterparts has widened for the second year in a row; NPWF analysis finds a leading factor is men’s earnings growing at a faster rate than women’s.
Sep 9, 2025 |
“Wages for workers without a high-school degree were up 5.5% last year — and that may be driving the gap, Katherine Gallagher Robbins, a senior fellow at the National Partnership for Women & Families, tells Axios.”
Aug 29, 2025 |
“Experts like Jocelyn Frye, the president of the National Partnership for Women and Families, an organization that advocates for family policies, know how unaffordable child care can be a stressor for Black families.
“’If you have a high number of moms who are working, then you’re going to need access to care and if you’re asking them to spend almost half their income on childcare, that’s going to not only put pressure on the entire family economically, but it’s going to make it harder for them to afford that care to begin with.’”
Aug 25, 2025 |
“The broader context, says Jocelyn Frye, president of the National Partnership for Women & Families and co-leader of the 75 Million Campaign, is that today’s job losses are less about performance and more about politics.
“’When you lose a job not because of your work but because of a political agenda, it can feel demoralizing,’ Frye told me. ‘And for Black women, particularly Black mothers – more than 80% of whom are the primary breadwinners – it threatens the stability of entire families.’
“She points to the rollback of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives as both a cause and a consequence.
“’This administration has deployed a different narrative, but the purpose is the same as always: to erode the pathways that allowed Black women even a chance at the middle class,’ Frye told me.”
Her call to action: don’t internalize the systemic failures.
“This is not about individual deficiencies. It’s an ideological agenda. And we must push back—not only to protect jobs, but to protect the progress that got us here in the first place.”
Aug 19, 2025 |
“’Having these cuts is something that’s going to limit that access for a lot of Black women out there, and that’s something that will have a ripple effect on maternal mortality and morbidity,’ said Rolonda Donelson, a reproductive health equity legal fellow at the National Partnership for Women & Families.”
Aug 19, 2025 |
The Campaign for a Family Friendly Economy and the National Partnership for Women & Families released reports detailing how Social Security impacts and improves the lives of veterans and their families in Pennsylvania and Virginia.
Aug 11, 2025 |
President Trump’s move to flood Washington, D.C. with federal law enforcement and National Guard troops is nothing short of an authoritarian stunt reminiscent of North Korean or Russian displays of power.
Aug 7, 2025 |
A first-of-its-kind analysis conducted by the National Partnership for Women & Families found positive trends in three state paid leave programs, showing that over time, access and use of these programs grew as they reached more workers and became more focused on equity and inclusion.
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