Affirmative action; business; child care; corporate women; economic development (United States); elder care; employment issues; entrepreneurship; equity issues; family; health and health care; mentoring; politics; reproductive rights; science and technology; sexual assault/harassment; social security; socioeconomic status of women; statistics on women; work and family.

Marguerite Rawalt Resource and Information Center. The Rawalt Center is one of the oldest and most comprehensive collections about working women in the United States.

Career Advancement Scholarship and Loan Program for Women and Girls with Critical Need. The BPW Foundation has administered grants to 8,000 women demonstrating critical financial need to help them complete their degree program. Of these women, 99 percent graduate, 80 percent become full-time employees, and median income of scholarship recipients doubles.

Women and Depression: Dispelling the Myths and Finding the Answers. The Women and Depression Depression study confronts depression and provides information on symptoms, treatment, and support services geared specifically toward women.

Small Businesses. The small business initiative, which has generated the publication, Making Workplaces Work: Quality Work Policies for Small Businesses, involves a community roundtable to discuss and explore quality and equitable policies for small businesses.

You Can't Get There from Here: Working Women and the Glass Ceiling. Statistics on the glass ceiling in the corporate, academic, and governmental arenas and information on corporate responses and legal remedies for victims of glass ceiling discrimination.

Women in Primetime: Employment Issues for Midlife Women. Discusses the challenges facing the one-third of all adult women who are in their midlife years.

Financing Your Future: Women and Retirement Income. An analysis of retirement system discrimination against working women

Making Workplaces Work: Quality Work Policies for Small Business. This special report and program guide contains information on quality work policies and how employers can meet the needs of their employees while still making a profit.

Resource Guide for Women Entrepreneurs. A guide for women who want to start or expand their own business.

Reproductive Rights: A Political, Professional and Personal Issue. Discusses the impact of reproductive rights on women's lives, including the latest birth control methods and reproductive rights in the workplace.

Crime of Power, Not Passion: Sexual Harassment in the Workplace. Summarizes the legal case history of sexual harassment and the changing corporate policies that ban sexual discrimination in the workplace.

Women and Work: A Journal of the Business and Professional Women's Foundation. The most recent edition, titled Work & Family: Today's Realities and Tomorrow's Visions, includes research presented at BPW's 1998 academic conference. It covers issues such as parental leave policies, child care, self-employment, microenterprise, corporate culture, and parental attitudes toward work and family balance.

The Duality of Work and Family Roles. A collection of papers presented at the 1997 BPW Foundation Academic Symposium; includes topics such as work/family politics, child care satisfaction, maternal and parental leave, reduced-hours career paths, and success at work and family in different stages of life.

BPW Issue Papers


Work and Family Policies: Options for the 90s and Beyond.

Women in Primetime: Employment Issues for Midlife Women.

Financing Your Future: Women and Retirement Income.

You Can't Get There from Here: Working Women and the Glass Ceiling.

Crime of Power, Not Passion: Sexual Harassment in the Workplace.

Reproductive Rights: A Political, Professional and Personal Issue.

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