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  • FAST FACT: Get Your Stat on for Women’s History Month
    Monday, March 7, 2011 - 4:37pm
    By Kate Meyer*You don’t have to look hard for statistics on women’s dynamite progress in education. In 1970, 22.1% of women in the labor force had college degrees. In 2010, the number had...

  • NYC No Longer Misleading Women
    Thursday, March 3, 2011 - 5:15pm
    By Kate Meyer*"If you hide what you do, you must believe you can only do what you do through deception” said Christine Quinn, speaker of the New York City Council, in a press conference...

  • UN Women: The Way Forward
    Tuesday, March 1, 2011 - 5:26pm
    By Alissa Vladimir*On Saturday, February 26, women’s human rights leaders, scholars, and advocates gathered at The New School to discuss the current status of women’s rights in the...

  • Human Face of Economic Policy
    Friday, February 25, 2011 - 6:41pm
    By Kyla Bender-BairdStarting off their mornings with some light economic policy talk, people crowded into the Drew Room at the UN Church Center on February 23rd. It was standing room only for the...

  • Origin of "Women of Color"
    Thursday, February 24, 2011 - 1:37pm
    In case you never learned or in case you need a refresher, Western States Center offers this video of Loretta Ross, cofounder and national coordinator of SisterSong, Women of Color Reproductive...

  • Early Childhood Funding at Risk
    Friday, February 18, 2011 - 2:13pm
    Yesterday, the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) convened a call with the National Women's Law Center, National Association for the Education of Young Children, and First Five Years...

  • Gender Equality as an Investment Concept
    Thursday, February 17, 2011 - 5:57pm
    Joe Keefe, President and CEO of Pax World Management LLC, recently released the paper, Gender Equality as an Investment Concept.  In the report, Keefe highlights Pax World’s Global Women...

  • What he really meant was...
    Thursday, February 17, 2011 - 5:40pm
    Many gasps were uttered when Josef Ackermann, chief executive of Deutsche Bank Germany, made the following remark regarding his company's annual board report: "I hope it will be prettier...

  • Last Chance! Modernizing Unemployment Insurance
    Thursday, February 17, 2011 - 12:51pm
    By Libby Parker*On February 11th, The National Employment Law Project (NELP) hosted a webinar on Taking Advantage of the Last Chance to Modernize Unemployment Insurance with Recovery Act Incentive...

  • Social Justice Double-Take: Unemployed Need Not Apply
    Wednesday, February 16, 2011 - 4:34pm
    By Kyla Bender-BairdMy jaw dropped this morning as I casually scrolled through my e-mail and this popped onto the screen: "discrimination against jobless Americans on the rise."  What...

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