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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

Nebraska Women’s Health Equity Report 2012

A report issued by the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services and the Women’s...
Importance of Social Security by Gender, Race/Ethnicity, and Marital Status, 2010

Bar graph: Persons Aged 65 and Older in Beneficiary Families Relying on Social Security for...
In Our Best Interest: Women, Financial Literacy and Credit Card Behavior

Prepared by the FINRA Investor Education Foundation, this study finds that women with low...
Rising to the Top?

Asia Society and the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy deliver “Rising to the Top...
The Gender Wage Gap by Occupation

Women’s median earnings are lower than men’s in nearly all occupations,...

Blog Posts

FAST FACTS: Disturbing Poverty Disparities

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January 23, 2009 posted by Kyla Bender-Baird A few weeks ago, I received a newsletter from the Institute on Community Integration . The...

NEW YEAR'S FORUM: Elizabeth Holtzman Demands We Not Forget About Women

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January 9, 2009 posted by admin New years, new administrations, change itself generally elicits a feeling of optimism in me--and I can’t...

NEW YEAR'S FORUM: More Inclusion, Please

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January 6, 2009 posted by admin Next up in our New Year's Resolutions for the Nation--here’s a link to this post by NCRW alums Gwendolyn...

Inspired Choices for Tough Jobs

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December 2, 2008 posted by Linda Basch There is a widespread outcry for the US to reassert its moral leadership in the world. How do we do this?...

TRANSITION FORUM—Says Women’s Media Center President Carol Jenkins, “Our Work Has Just Begun”

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November 7, 2008 posted by Linda Basch Linda Basch: What is your vision for an Obama administration? Who are your ideal Cabinet picks? ...

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

Do Men Really Earn More Than Women? [infographic]

June 5, 2012

PayScale calculates the gender wage gap in several different fields.
Turkish women protest plans to curb abortion

June 4, 2012

The Associated Press reports that thousands of demonstrators on Sunday staged the largest protest yet against plans by Turkey's Islamic-rooted government to curb abortion, which critics say will amount to a virtual ban.
Silenced: Gender Gap in Election Coverage

June 1, 2012

The 4th Estate finds that women are significantly under-represented in 2012 election coverage in major media outlets.
Federal court strikes down key part of federal law banning same-sex marriage

June 1, 2012

The 1st Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals struck down a key part of the Defense of Marriage Act.
Overweight women experience obesity stigma even after weight loss, study finds

May 30, 2012

A study out of the University of Hawaii at Mānoa, The University of Manchester and Monash University and published in the journal Obesity, finds that anti-fat prejudice still persists against formerly obese women, even after they had lost a...

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