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Resources and Toolkits

In addition to our publications, IWPR has created a number of resources to enable advocates, academics, and policymakers to find the information they need to inform policy change.

IWPR Quick Figures

IWPR Quick Figures are designed to present timely, easily digestible graphics and information about current research topics. Browse through a full selection of IWPR Quick Figures here.

Downloadable IWPR Data

Femstats: Women's Data Center

	IWPR created femstats.net as a primary resource for easily downloadable women-centered data. Data presented here include IWPR's state-by-state report card series on women’s progress in the United States, as well as downloadable data presented in many of IWPR's other reports and fact sheets.

Consent Decree Database

IWPR, in collaboration with The WAGE Project, Inc., examined consent decree remedies for sex and race discrimination in the workplace and developed a database of approximately 500 consent decrees that became effective between the years 2000 and 2008. The project also prepared in-depth studies of a small number of highly innovative consent decrees in order to better describe best practices for using consent decrees to improve working conditions and eradicate discrimination based on race and sex from the workplace.

Manuals, Guides, and Tools

Visit our Manuals, Guides, and Tools page to find research action guides, discussion guides, and manuals for researchers and advocates. On this page, you'll find publications such as The Status of Women in Your County, a tool that provides instructions for finding information on the status of women in your county using county-level indicators, which can inform local policy by identifying areas of need and providing a context for local policy agendas.

IWPR Listservs

Learn more about how to join IWPR's Welfare Monitoring Listserv and PuLSE Listserv, a resource for people interested on the policy developments regarding the status of women in the states.

Be sure to sign up for our special e-mail lists on Women and Social Security and Politics, Religion, and Women's Public Vision, as well as our General Interest e-mails.

Toolkits and Calculators

Paid Sick Days Toolkit

IWPR developed a tool to calculate how a paid sick days initiative will benefit workers in a particular state. These statistics demonstrate the widespread lack of paid sick days across the country—and reveal the benefits of a paid sick days standard for business, workers, and the economy.

Social Security Calculator

Produced by the Center for Economic Policy Research with IWPR, this Accurate Benefits Calculator compares current-law Social Security benefits to the Bush Plan based on "Progressive Indexing" and the 2005 State of the Union proposal, which includes private accounts paid for by 4 percentage points of the employee's payroll tax. (Please note that by clicking on the link, you will be taken to an external website.)

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