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Press Releases
These are the latest press releases from IWPR. For older press releases or more information regarding the information in a press release please contact Elisabeth Crum, at 202.785.5100 x24.
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May 28, 2008
Governments of 20 Countries Ahead of U.S. In Promoting Workplace Flexibility Press Release
May 13 , 2008
Report: What Good Pre-K Costs... Before it Pays Big Dividends Press Release
May 8, 2008
On the eve of Mother's Day, new national report highlights the economic insecurity of American women Press Release
April 28 , 2008
New research on girls from the Women's Foundation of Minnesota shows girls have promise but face challenges threatening their futures Press Release
April 11, 2008
Katrina: For Women, The Storm Was Only Hald the Nightmare Press Release
February 11, 2008
2007-2008 Venture Grants Awarded: Nine Groups Receive Funds for Innovative Efforts to Link Economic Development and Child Care Media Advisory
December 5 , 2007
New Strategies Promise Greater Leadership by Women in Unions Press Release
September 1 , 2007
Even the Best U.S. Corporations Fail to Provide Maternity and Paternity Leave Press Release
June 22 , 2007
The Women of the Gulf Coast: Struggle and Resilience Two Years after the Hurricanes Press Release
April 23, 2007
Wage Gap Persists in 2006 Press Release
December 20, 2006
Running Faster to Stay in Place? Report Lays Out Best/Worst State Economies for Women National Press Release
New Report Ranks DC, Maryland, and Virginia
in Top Ten State Economies for Women in 2006 Press Release
August 18, 2006
Women’s Employment Falls More Than Men’s In Wake of Hurricanes
IWPR Report Finds Deep Segregation in Gulf Coast Labor Market by Sex and Race
August 8, 2006
Women Edged Out of Expanding Communications Industries
August 3, 2006
IWPR Announces Annual State-by-State Report Card Series on
Women’s Progress in the United States
May 3, 2006
Major New Grant from the Kellogg Foundation Will Fund Partnership
To Link Economic Development and Child Care
March 8, 2006
New Study Links Nurse Shortage to Nurse Pay
October 11 , 2005
Women of Gulf Coast Key to Rebuilding After Katrina and Rita--New Report Finds More Than Half of New Orleans’ Families Headed by Single Mothers
August 30, 2005
Persistent Inequalities: New Census Data Show High Poverty, Lack of Health Coverage, and Continuing Gender Wage Gap
August 3 , 2005
Providers Face Isolation, Low Earnings, and a Lack of Access to Training: Promising New Approaches Highlighted
June 29, 2005
Assessing the Family and Medical Leave Act: An Analysis of an Employment Policy Foundation Paper on Costs
June 20, 2005
New Report Shows Critical Role Religious Women Activists Can Play in Transforming American Politics
May 4, 2005
Testimony of Dr. Vicky Lovell (IWPR) before the Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development of the 184th General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
April 28 , 2005
Valuing Good Health: An Estimate of Costs and Savings for the Healthy Families Act
March 29, 2005
African American Women Work More, Earn Less: New Census Data Show Economic and Educational Status of African American Women Still Lags Far Behind White Women
January 5, 2005
Making the Local Case: New Toolkit on the Status of Women at the County-Level
December 6, 2004
Joint Press Release with the National Congress of American Indians: Report Shows Status of Native Women Below the Economic, Political Average
November 16, 2004
The Status of Women in the States, 2004: Women Still 100 Years From Full Equality
November 16, 2004
Results Mixed for Women’s Status in DC, Maryland, and Virginia: Improvement for All Three Areas, But a Long Way to Go
November 11, 2004
Smaller Gender Gap in Crucial States May Have Cost Kerry the Election:
Analysis Shows That Women’s Decreased Support Pushed Ohio to Bush’s Column
November 10, 2004
Women’s Work Supports, Job Retention, and Job Mobility: Child Care and Employer-Provided Health Insurance Help Women Stay on Jobs
October 21, 2004
New Study Reveals Massive Shortfall of Early Care & Education for Working Families
October 13 , 2004
Women More Likely to Vote Than Men in 9 of 10 Key Battleground States
October 13 , 2004
New National Report: Michigan in Top Two States In Women’s Political Participation Up from 10th place two years ago
August 27, 2004
Women’s Earnings Fall; U.S. Census Bureau Finds Rising Gender Wage Gap
June 15, 2004
Statement of Heidi Hartmann, President, IWPR: Introduction of the Healthy Families Act
May 5, 2004
New Report Finds that Half of All Workers Do Not Have Paid Sick Leave--Lack of Paid Sick Leave Jeopardizes Health, Productivity, and Economic Security
April 20, 2004
Women's Economic Status in the States: Wide Disparities by Race, Ethnicity, and Region
April 1, 2004
Florida’s Unemployment Insurance System: Barriers to Program Adequacy for Women, Low-Wage and Part-Time Workers, and Workers of Color
January 29, 2004
Institute for Women’s Policy Research Launches New Project on Women’s Political Activism in Religious Groups
September 26, 2003
IWPR analyzes recent Census Bureau data on poverty and wage gap
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