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

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

Retirement Security: Older Women Remain at Risk

GAO-12-825T, Jul 25, 2012

What GAO Found
Over the last decade, working...
The State of Women of Color in the United States

Issue brief from the Center for American Progress:
This issue brief examines the state of...
Women in Federal and State-Level Judgeships

A Report by the Center for Women in Government & Civil Society, Rockefeller College of...
Job Growth Continues in June: Private Sector Growing Faster than Public Sector in the Recovery

According to IWPR analysis of the June employment report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor...
Third Anniversary of the Recovery Shows Job Growth for Women Slowed by Public Sector Job Losses

The deep recession that began in December 2007 and cost nearly 7.5 million jobs was harder on...

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

jzeilinger@ncrw.org

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

Caster Semenya Can Run With the Women; It's Official

July 6, 2010

CBS: South African runner Caster Semenya has finally been cleared to compete in races, after 11 months of psychological, gynecological and endocrine tests to determine if she was a "woman." Her critics have said that she looks "...
African-American women struggle to overcome wealth gap

July 5, 2010

BBC: A recent academic study found that the gap in wealth between white and black Americans had more than quadrupled between 1984 and 2007. Three African American women tell their stories about economic hardship and obstacles.
How Women Changed The High Court ... And Didn't

June 25, 2010

NPR: If Elena Kagan is confirmed as a Supreme Court justice, fully one third of the current court will be female. Many say there is no difference between how male and female judges reach decisions. In addition, Kagan would be the second...
Older breast cancer patients 'miss out' on treatment

June 10, 2010

BBC: A new campaign in Scotland is drawing attention to the fact that older breast cancer patients do not receive the same treatment as younger ones, and often do not receive chemotherapy or surgery.
(Blog) Why do Latinas avoid the doctor? Study investigates

June 7, 2010

CNN: A new study in the journal Ethnicity and Disease found that over 70% of Latinas delay doctors appointments even if they have insurance and chronic medical conditions. Factors such as discrimination and lack of cultural competence and...

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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.