Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

NCRW Resources

NCRW Fact Sheet: Immigrant Women--Access to Education

Immigrant women face particular hardship in accessing basic educational opportunities due to a...
NCRW Policy Brief: Health

A majority of U.S. citizens has identified access to affordable health care as a priority. Women...
NCRW Fact Sheet: Women's Reproductive and Sexual Health

Access to accurate information and comprehensive health services enables women to plan the timing...
NCRW Fact Sheet: Health Insurance, Women and Families--Imperative for a Well Nation

Access to affordable health care for all U.S. citizens needs to become a national priority. Making...
NCRW Fact Sheet: Alleviating Health Disparities--Key to a Healthy and Productive Nation

Alleviating health disparities is considered critical for building a healthier, more productive...

Reports & Publications

WOMEN GO GLOBAL CD-ROM

Monday, July 13, 2009 - 11:31am

Effective_Philanthropy

Monday, July 13, 2009 - 11:30am

Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice

Monday, July 13, 2009 - 11:22am

Taxes ARE a Woman's Issue: Reframing the Debate

Friday, April 10, 2009 - 11:43pm

Leaves that Pay: Employer and Worker Experiences with Paid Family Leave in California

Wednesday, January 12, 2011 - 3:17pm

Member Organizations

Abigail Quigley McCarthy Center for Women

St. Catherine University

St. Paul, MN
Catalyst

New York, NY
Center for American Women & Politics

Rutgers University

New Brunswick, NJ
The Center for Research on Gender and Sexuality

San Francisco State University

San Francisco, CA
Center for the Education of Women

University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, MI
Center for Women in Government & Civil Society

University at Albany, SUNY

Albany, NY

Resources

Women in Banking

Politicians and employers recognise that gender should be no barrier to career progression...
The Cranfield FTSE Female Index

Since 1999, the annual Female FTSE benchmarking report has provided a regular measure of...
Government That Looks Like America? Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Financial Regulatory Institutions

Diversity in executive management is low at all agencies when compared to the percentage...
World Development Report 2012: Gender Equality and Development

The 2012 World Development Report on Gender Equality and Development...
Intellectual Property and Women Entrepreneurs

The number of women awarded patents has soared over the last several decades far beyond...

Blog Posts

Guest Blogger Laura Briggs: Feminists and the Baby Veronica Case

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By Laura Briggs The “Baby Veronica” case (Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl) currently before the Supreme Court is many things...

Why Negotiation is Only Part of the Solution

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Did you know that women are more likely to face negative social consequences for negotiating? This seems to go against the pervasive...

Looking to Women in America for Solutions

Kate Meyer

*By Kate MeyerLast week Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisor to President Obama and Chair of the White House Council on Women and Girls, and Preeta Bansal...

A Brief History of the Women's Donor Activist Movement

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This video was inspired by historian Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner who brilliantly determined to preserve and document the writings of suffragist Matilda...

Policy Is About Priority: Where Do Moms Fit in?

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By Rylee Sommers-Flanagan*This post originally appeared on the Health Justice Blog associated with the Health Justice Division of the New York...

Member Experts

Eileen Appelbaum

Eileen Appelbaum joined the Center for Economic Policy and Research in 2010 after eight years at Rutgers University as Professor and Director of the...

Louise Lamphere

Louise Lamphere is a Distinguished Professor of Anthopology Emeritus at the University of New Mexico and Past President of the American...

Radhika Balakrishnan

Radhika Balakrishnan, Executive Director of the Center for Women's Global Leadership, and Professor, Women's and Gender Studies, has a Ph.D. in...

Juhu Thukral

Juhu Thukral is the Director of Law and Advocacy at The Opportunity Agenda. She has been an advocate for the rights of low-income and immigrant women...

Mariko Chang

Dr. Mariko Chang is the author of the new book, Shortchanged: Why Women Have Less Wealth and What Can Be Done About It, and the main author of the...

Mimi Abramovitz

Mimi Abramovitz is the CHAIR of Social Welfare Policy at Hunter College School of Social Work, and serves as the Bertha Capen Reynolds...

Kyla Bender-Baird

Kyla Bender-Baird, Research and Programs Manager, is providing the Council with a wide range of research and communications support. She received a...

Lisa McClain

Dr. Lisa McClain is an Associate Professor of History and the Director of Gender Studies at Boise State University. She researches the issue of...

News

Breast-feeding hurts moms' earnings, study finds

April 30, 2012

Breast-feeding comes with an often-overlooked cost to new mothers, according to a new study by Phyllis L.F. Rippeyoung, an assistant professor at Acadia University in Nova Scotia, and published in the American Sociological Review.
Don’t Call Women the Richer Sex!

April 30, 2012

Examines the perception that women are outpacing men in the workforce.
Studying how much powerful men and women talk

April 27, 2012

Yale School of Management Assistant Professor Victoria Brescoll finds that even women in power purposely curtail how much they speak in a group because they’re aware, whether they like it or not, that being too outspoken can be off-putting...
Protest Outside Facebook HQ Challenges Pale, Male And Stale Board

April 27, 2012

The women's rights group UltraViolet organized a demonstration outside of Facebook's New York office to protest the social media company's appointment of an all-white, all-male board ahead of its IPO.
An Upside to the 'War on Women'?

April 25, 2012

Karin Kamp asks "Is there an upside to the so-called 'war on women'? Could it be mobilizing a new generation of women leaders?" She interviews some prominent women representing the interests of other women to find out.
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NCRW is a network of leading university and community based research, policy, and advocacy centers with a growing global reach dedicated to advancing rights and opportunities for women and girls. We also have a Corporate Circle comprised of senior diversity professionals from leading U.S. and global member companies and a Presidents Circle of college and university leaders who share our commitment. NCRW harnesses the collective power of its network to provide knowledge, analysis, and thought leadership on issues ranging from reducing women’s poverty to building a critical mass of women’s leadership across sectors.

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