December 18, 2009 posted by admin
As debate around healthcare reform heats up in the Senate, come read the facts about women and access to affordable healthcare. According to our research, there are more than 17 million women in the U.S. without any health coverage at all, and this number continues to grow each year. We also found [...]
December 17, 2009 posted by Kyla Bender-Baird
The Migration Policy Institute just published a spotlight on immigrant women. It includes the latest data on labor force participation and socioeconomic status. Here’s a preview:
The 18.9 million immigrant women in the United States in 2008 made up approximately 12 percent of all women in the country.
While the majority [...]
December 16, 2009 posted by admin
The Christian Science Monitor featured several articles this week on the veil and the Muslim Women’s Movement. They’re well worth the read!
From “Behind the veil: Why Islam’s most visible symbol is spreading:”
All this attention on the veil brings immense chagrin to Muslims because their faith means so much more to [...]
December 15, 2009 posted by Francine Moccio*
I wrote Live Wire to go beyond conventional definitions of discrimination in order to point up some of the more submerged reasons an occupation remains sex segregated and to more effectively frame the content of policy reform, advocacy and compliance regulations to address this important issue. Billions of dollars [...]
December 15, 2009 posted by admin
Sisters in the Brotherhoods is an oral-history-based study of women who have, against considerable odds, broken the gender barrier to blue-collar employment in various trades in New York City beginning in the 1970s. It is a story of the fight against deeply ingrained cultural assumptions about what constitutes women’s work, [...]
