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...
In 2023, Latinas were paid just 51 cents for every dollar paid to white, non-Hispanic men; that means that the typical Latina lost out on $30,800 in wages. On October 3, we commemorate Latina Equal Pay Day and recommit ourselves to the fight for fair pay.
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.
Over the last several years, cities have worked to advance earned sick leave for workers by passing local laws that require local employers to offer paid sick leave or other forms of paid leave. However, many cities across the nation have been restricted by preemption.
August 28 marks Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI) Women’s Equal Pay Day in 2024. NHPI women are typically paid 60 cents for every dollar paid to white, non-Hispanic men – one of the largest gender wage gaps in the country.
There has been a surge of workers in the U.S. demanding better from their employers and leading employers have responded. To highlight companies that have cutting-edge leave policies, as well as to showcase the benefits to companies of transparency, we have launched the Leading on Leave Index.
Recently, lawmakers in several states and localities have been advocating for mask bans and have seen success in places like North Carolina and Nassau County, New York. But with the COVID-19 pandemic still raging on and conservative efforts to delegitimize the efficacy of masks, the renewed push to ban face masks, catapulted by fear-mongering and a legacy of eugenics, will harm and threaten the health and safety of disabled people, particularly disabled women and disabled women of color.
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.
There are many factors that affect the economic situation and narrower wage gap for AANHPI women beyond individual characteristics. The influence of living in supportive states cannot be overlooked, as well as the work of AANHPI legislators who are working to make their states more supportive and equitable places to live but are underrepresented.
Paid caregiver wages compared to economy-wide wage changes and inflation in care costs over the past few years show that we still need large federal investments in all types of care.
Today marks the official kickoff of the WNBA basketball season. From pre-season sellouts to record views, the spotlight is on the WNBA. The topic of equal pay for athletes has also taken center stage.
For the mothers balancing the paid and unpaid labor keeping families afloat, we can do better than just flowers this Mother’s Day. A paid leave plan for all would give our superheroes the time they need to be human.
Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander women face economic discrimination in the labor market and topline data fail to tell the whole story.
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.
Shortly after having a little boy, my partner and I got to dive into the scary, competitive, expensive and overwhelming process of finding childcare. Fast forward to now, a year and half later, we have only managed to stay afloat as a family because of the flexibility, support, and policies in place that met me exactly when and where I needed them.
Recent budget proposals by the Biden administration and Republicans in Congress show how the two parties plan to support – or not – women and families.
In September 2023, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services proposed a rule updating disability discrimination regulations under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 for the first time in almost 40 years.
