January 25, 2010 posted by Kyla Bender-Baird
Ever since my sophomore year of college, when I took “Social, Class, and Power,” I’ve had the refrain “the rich get richer while the poor get poorer” stuck in my head. Today’s report released by the Center for American Progress and Center for WorkLife Law at Hastings College of [...]
December 11, 2009 posted by Kyla Bender-Baird
Nearly one-third of U.S. adults play caregiver roles in households across the nation according to Caregiving in the U.S. 2009 report. The report was funded by the MetLife Foundation and conducted for the National Alliance for Caregiving and AARP by Matthew Greenwald & Associates. The report also found that
Caregivers [...]
December 8, 2009 posted by Theresa Johnston
Originally posted December 7, 2009 on Gender News from the Clayman Institute for Gender Research
Stanford Professor Richard Zare is renowned for his work in laser chemistry, with more than 700 publications, four books and 50 patents to his name. Zare is the Marguerite Blake Wilbur Professor in Natural Science, [...]
October 19, 2009 posted by Kyla Bender-Baird
I just discovered the awesome section of the BLS website: “People are asking…” I think this may be new favorite thing. The first question featured today, “How many mothers are in the labor force compared to the 1970s?” Click on the question and you’re taken to a handy-dandy table [...]
September 10, 2009 posted by Kyla Bender-Baird
On the heal of two important news updates—the Bureau of Labor Statistics monthly Employment Summary report and USA Today’s article on the changing gender balance in the labor force–-comes an exciting new fact sheet from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research: Unemployment Among Single Mother Families. Statistical highlights:
Single mothers [...]
