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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

Taxes ARE a Woman's Issue: Reframing the Debate

Friday, April 10, 2009 - 11:43pm

Gains and Gaps: A Look at the World's Women

Friday, April 10, 2009 - 11:46pm

Women in Fund Management: A Road Map for Achieving Critical Mass — and Why it Matters

Monday, July 13, 2009 - 11:19am

Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice

Monday, July 13, 2009 - 11:22am

MISSING Information About Women's Lives

Monday, July 13, 2009 - 11:25am

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 Senior Management Appointments: CEW & Dun & Bradstreet Data: May 2012

A survey of Australian CEOs from Dun and Bradstreet and Chief Executive Women (CEW).
The...
Marriage Structure and Resistance to the Gender Revolution in the Workplace

In this article, we examine a heretofore neglected pocket of resistance to the gender...
Moving Forward with the Legal Empowerment of Women in Pakistan

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Cultivating Fear: The Vulnerability of Immigrant Farmworkers in the US to Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment

This 95-page report describes rape, stalking, unwanted touching, exhibitionism, or vulgar...
Breaking the Social Security Glass Ceiling: A Proposal to Modernize Women's Benefits

This report examines the valuable role women play as caregivers to both their children and...

Blog Posts

New Book on Women in the Trades by Jane LaTour

Kyla Bender-Baird

December 15, 2009 posted by admin

Motherhood penalty remains a pervasive problem in the workplace

Kyla Bender-Baird

December 1, 2009 posted by Ruth SchechterOriginally posted November 22, 2009 on Gender News from the Clayman Institute for Gender Research Mothers...

FAST FACT: GENDER EQUITY IN ATHLETICS DURING DIFFICULT ECONOMIC TIMES

Kyla Bender-Baird

November 16, 2009 posted by Kyla Bender-BairdAs the economy dips, schools are tightening their belts. Unfortunately—but not surprisingly—...

WOMEN’S EQUALITY FORUM: Daddy, can a man be Prime Minister?

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By Gwendolyn Beetham*When I was in graduate school in London, one of my professors told a cute story about his daughter, born during the Thatcher era...

WOMEN’S EQUALITY DAY: A Little Less Conversation, A Little More Action

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By Karen O’Connor*One need only look to the Declaration of Sentiments adopted by the women in attendance at the Seneca Falls Convention in...

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

The 15 Most Insanely Sexist Things In Bleacher Report’s Insanely Sexist Ranking of Female Olympians

June 20, 2012

Alyssa Rosenberg highlights the fifteen most offensive listings in Thomas Delatte’s “100 Hottest Olympians” post for Bleacher Report.
Would more women as traders make a difference?

June 20, 2012

The author of The Hour Between Dog and Wolf considers the possible reasons for the minority of women on the trading floor.
Mainstreaming Gender Lens Investing

June 20, 2012

We have known for awhile that investing in women makes dollars and sense, now check out the numbers that prove it! We’ll be discussing it at our National Conference this week in DC!
40 Years of Title IX: Leadership Matters for Women in Academe

June 18, 2012

Yvette M. Alex-Assensoh discusses the post-Title IX advances made by and challenges still faced by women in academia.
Army task force: Female troops need better health care

June 18, 2012

The military is falling short in providing equal health care for women on the battlefield even as public pressure grows to allow them a broader role in combat, an Army task force led by female officers concluded.

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