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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

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

Older Women's League - Mother's Day Report

Each year, OWL team members, board members and other volunteers gather together to decide...
Breaking the Social Security Glass Ceiling

The National Committee to...
Women and the Risk of Disability Research: Insights from a Landmark Study by The State Farm® Center for Women and Financial Services at The American College

The majority of Americans lack basic knowledge about the likelihood of a disability and are...
What About Women (and Retirement)?

New “Retirement Revealed” data looks at women’s retirement planning and...
State of the World's Mothers 2012: Nutrition in the First 1,000 Days

Save the Children’s State of The World's Mothers Report Ranks Niger as the Worst Country...

Blog Posts

WOMEN’S EQUALITY FORUM: Achieving Political Equality by Living It

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By Tonni Brodber*Linda Basch: From your perspective, what is the unfinished work of women’s political equality? Tonni Brodber: In the English-...

Tradeswomen Organizing for Change: 30 Years and Counting

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May 25, 2009 posted by Kyla Bender-Baird As the granddaughter of a woman engineer (and also someone who struggles to assemble her Ikea furniture but...

Media and Popular Culture: A Catch-22

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May 21, 2009 posted by admin Mass media is the heart of many current debates; however, the nature of the media remains double-edged. On a positive...

Health Scare Underlines Need to Repair Safety Nets

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May 1, 2009 posted by Shyama Venkateswar The recent health alert on swine flu has serious implications for those surviving at the margins of society...

Enough is Enough—We NEED Fair Pay NOW

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April 28, 2009 posted by Kyla Bender-Baird I post this today, in honor of Fair Pay Day, with a sense of both frustration and hope. I’m...

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

Uninsured women less likely to get cancer screening

June 15, 2012

A new study, published in Cancer, finds that people without health insurance in rural areas are less likely to be up-to-date for routine health check-ups and cancer screening than those with coverage
Has Title IX, now 40 years old, harmed male athletics?

June 15, 2012

Valerie Strauss addresses the myths around Title IX and men's athletics.
Gender Differences in the Salaries of Physician Researchers

June 13, 2012

Researchers find that, all other things equal, female physicians still make approximately $12,000 per year less than their male counterparts.
Why There Are So Few Women In Congress

June 12, 2012

According to political scientists Barbara Palmer and Dennis Simon, there are five main reasons women still hold less than 17% of the seats in Congress.
Women in Finance: Focus on board diversity is the tip of the iceberg

June 12, 2012

The findings of the fifth annual Financial News Women in Finance survey are sobering: Of the 650 female respondents to the survey, all of whom work in the financial services industry, two thirds said their gender made it harder for them to succeed and...

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