Research Archive: Women, 2006-2013
Insecure & Unequal: Poverty and Income among Women and Families 2000-2012
National Women’s Law Center, September 2013
Why We Need a Fair Shot: A Plan for Women and Families to Get Ahead
Judith Warner, Center for American Progress, September 2013
How Pay Inequity Hurts Women of Color
Sophia Kerby, Center for American Progress, April 2013
Insecure & Unequal: Poverty and Income among Women and Families, 2000-2011
National Women’s Law Center, September 2012
Cutting Programs for Low-Income People Especially Hurts Women and Their Families
National Women’s Law Center, August 2012
The Wage Gap for Women: The Consequences of Workplace Pay Inequity for Women in America
Sarah Jane Glynn, Center for American Progress, August 2012
Women’s Well-Being: Ranking America’s Top 25 Metro Areas
Sarah Burd-Sharps and Kristen Lewis, Measure of America, April 2012
The Effects of Paid Family and Medical Leave on Employment Stability and Economic Security
Heather Boushey and Sarah Jane Glynn, Center for American Progress, April 2012
Protecting Workers and Their Families with Paid Family Leave and Caregiving Credits
Anne O’Leary, Center for American Progress, April 2012
Social Security: A Key Retirement Resource for Women
Selena Caldera, AARP Public Policy Institute, March 2012
Tipped Over the Edge: Gender Inequity in the Restaurant Industry
Restaurant Opportunities Centers United, February 2012
Hunger and Poverty Hurt African-American Women and Children
Bread for the World Institute, February 2012
Retirement on the Edge: Women,Men, and Economic Insecurity After the Great Recession
Cynthia Hess, Jeff Hayes and Heidi Hartmann, Institute for Women’s Policy Research, October 2011
Women and Men Living on the Edge: Economic Insecurity After the Great Recession
Jeff Hayes and Heidi Hartmann, Institute for Women’s Policy Research, October 2011
Characteristics of Low-Income Single Mothers Disconnected from Work and Public Assistance
Pamela J. Loprest and Austin Nichols, Urban Institute, August 2011
Employment Crisis Worsens for Black Women during the Recovery
National Women’s Law Center, August 2011
Six Key Facts on Women and Social Security
Institute for Women’s Policy Research, June 2011
Institute for Women’s Policy Research, April 2011
The Impact of Recent Budget Proposals on Women of Color, Their Families and Communities
Women of Color Policy Network, NYU Wagner, February 2011
Social Security Especially Vital to Women and People of Color, Men Increasingly Reliant
Heidi Hartmann, Jeff Hayes and Robert Drago Institute for Women’s Policy Research, January 2011
Women and Social Security: Key Facts
36 Cents Short – Wage Gap in Sales and Related Occupations Highest of Any Sector
National Women’s Law Center, January 2011
Jobs and Economic Security for America’s Women (pdf)
National Economic Council, The White House, October 2010
At Rope’s End: Single Women, Mothers, Wealth and Assets in the U.S. (pdf)
Mariko Chang and C. Nicole Mason Women of Color Policy Network at New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, October 2010
2010 Portrait of Women & Girls in the Washington Metropolitan Area (pdf)
Washington Area Women’s Foundation, October 2010
Child Care Matters: Building Economic Security for Low-Income Women (pdf)
Women’s Economic Security Campaign, September 2010
Poverty Among Women and Families, 2000-2009: Great Recession Brings Highest Rate in 15 Years (pdf)
National Women’s Law Center, September 2010
Separate and Not Equal? Gender Segregation in the Labor Market and the Gender Wage Gap (pdf)
Ariane Hegewisch, Hannah Liepmann, Jeffrey Hayes, and Heidi Hartmann, Institute for Women’s Policy Research, September 2010
Women in Poverty During the Great Recession: Public Benefits Do Not Always Respond to Rising Need Variation Across States is Substantial (pdf)
Jane M. Henrici, Ph.D., Allison Suppan Helmuth, Frances Zlotnick, and Jeff Hayes, Ph.D., Institute for Women’s Policy Research, September 2010
Aiming Higher: Removing Barriers to Education, Training and Jobs for Low-Income Women (pdf)
Women’s Economic Security Campaign, May 2010
Liz Weiss and Page Gardner, Center for American Progress, March 2010
Women and Men’s Employment and Unemployment in the Great Recession (pdf)
Heidi Hartmann, Ashley English and Jeffrey Hayes, Institute for Women’s Policy Research, February 2010
The State of Opportunity, 2009
The Opportunity Agenda, January 2010
Building Illinois’ Workforce of the Future
Meegan Dugan Bassett, Women Employed, November 2009
Green Equity Toolkit: Advancing Race, Gender and Economic Equity in the Green Economy
Yvonne Yen Liu and Terry Keleher, Applied Research Center, November 2009
Creating Opportunity for Low-Income Women in the Green Economy (pdf)
Women’s Economic Security Campaign, October 2009
State Child Care Assistance Policies 2009
Karen Schulman and Helen Blank, National Women’s Law Center, September 2009
Unemployment among Single Mother Families (pdf)
Institute for Women’s Policy Research, September 2009
Legal Momentum, July 2009
Single Mothers and Poverty: Agenda for Action (pdf)
Montgomery County Commission for Women, June 2009
A Health Impact Assessment of the Healthy Families Act of 2009
Won Kim Cook, Jonathan Heller, Rajiv Bhatia and Lili Farhang, National Partnership for Women & Families, June 2009
Cara V. James, Alina Salganicoff, Megan Thomas, Usha Ranji, Marsha Lillie-Branton and Roberta Wyn, Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, June 2009
President Obama’s Fiscal Year 2010 Budget: A New Direction for Women and Families (pdf)
National Women’s Law Center, May 2009
Changing Poverty and Changing Antipoverty Policies
Maria Cancian and Sheldon Danziger, Institute for Research on Poverty, April 2009
Feeding Our Future: Growing Up Healthy with WIC
Karen Jeng, Elizabeth L. March, John T. Cook and Stephanie Ettinger de Cuba, Children’s HealthWatch, March 2009
National Campaign Analysis: Preliminary 2007 Teen Birth Data
The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, March 2009
Fact Sheet: Women and Entitlements (pdf)
Heidi Hartmann, Institute for Women’s Policy Research, February 2009
The Straight Facts on Women in Poverty
Alexandra Cawthorne, Center for American Progress, October 2008
Young Men Are Still Economically Better Off Than Young Women (pdf)
Timothy Casey, Legal Momentum, September 2008
Why Americans Worry About Retirement Security, and Why Women Worry More Than Men (pdf)
Vicky Lovell, Heidi Hartmann and Claudia Williams, Institute for Women’s Policy Research, May 2008
Vicky Lovell, Heidi Hartmann and Claudia Williams, Institute for Women’s Policy Research, May 2008
Avis Jones-DeWeever, Institute for Women’s Policy Research, April 2008
From Work to Retirement: Tracking Changes in Women’s Poverty Status(pdf)
Sunhwa Lee and Lois Shaw, AARP Public Policy Institute, AARP Foundation, February 2008
The Economic Security of Older Women and Men in the United States (pdf)
Tori Finkle, Heidi Hartmann and Sunhwa Lee, Institute for Women’s Policy Research, December 2007
Kinsey Alden Dinan, Michelle Chau and Nancy K. Cauthen, National Center for Children in Poverty, Columbia Unviersity, June 2007
Rachel Ferencik, John Matthews, Christine Moloi, Lakshmi Pandey, Dawud Ujamaa and Sally Wallace, Fiscal Research Center, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University, May 2007