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.
Pushing Past Restrictions: Six Places Where City Workers Have Access to Paid Sick Leave
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.
Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Women Shouldn’t Be Left out of the Equal Pay Conversation
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.
The Next Chapter of Paid Leave Leadership: Transparency
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.
Mask Bans are Dangerous for Disabled Women
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.
July Jobs Data Show a Rocky Road for Care Jobs and Black and Latina Women | #JobsDay July 2024
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.
Americans’ Unpaid Caregiving is Worth More than $1 Trillion Annually – and Women are Doing Two-Thirds of The Work
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.
How a lack of LGBTQI+ data harms gender justice
Gender justice requires identifying and addressing inequities for all lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex and other sexual and gender minority (LGBTQI+) people.
A narrower AANHPI gender wage gap isn’t a model minority win but a state policy one
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.
Caregiving Costs Outpace Inflation, But Caregivers Still Lack a Living Wage
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.
Equitable Pay & the WNBA
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.
Why Paid Leave Is the Best Mother’s Day Gift
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.
How are AANHPI Women Faring in the Economy? | #JobsDay May 2024
Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander women face economic discrimination in the labor market and topline data fail to tell the whole story.
What States Stand to Gain From a National Paid Family and Medical Leave Program
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.
Dear Boss: I didn’t know what life was going to throw my way
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.
It’s Tax Season. Who’s Budgeting for Women’s Futures?
Recent budget proposals by the Biden administration and Republicans in Congress show how the two parties plan to support – or not – women and families.
HHS Must Finalize Updated 504 Regulations
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.
What Does the Jobs Report – and My Grandmother’s Cookbook – Tell Us About the Care Economy? | #JobsDay April 2024
For Care Workers Recognition Month, we look at how caregiving jobs are faring in today’s economy – and why care work is personal for so many people.
Bridging the Divide: How Businesses are Investing in Equal Pay and Gender Equity
Businesses play a key role in reducing the gender wage gap.
113 Years Later, We Remember the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Today, we remember one of the deadliest industrial disasters in U.S. history – the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911. Over 100 workers, mostly young, immigrant women and girls, died.
