A Feminist Economist Speaks Out: Deficits are a Grrrl’s Best Friend
July 14, 2011 by Susan F. Feiner · 52 Comments
Listen up, sisters! Deficit hawks will eat your lunch, your kids, your jobs and your retirement. An economy without a deficit is like a fish without water. Reducing the U.S. federal deficit will make ...Read More
Where’s the Women’s Opportunity?
July 1, 2011 by Amy Williams · 2 Comments
Finding a job is difficult enough with unemployment rates at 9.1 percent (as of May 2011), but it’s doubly hard for a group that already faces unique barriers: displaced homemakers–those ...Read More
What’s More Effective: Closing Your Purse or Your Legs?
February 24, 2011 by Mia Fontaine · 6 Comments
A sex strike recently proposed in Belgium has ignited a debate about the efficacy of sex strikes. Proposed by parliament member Marleen Temmerman, the strike would be intended to break the eight-month ...Read More
Economic Recovery? Not So Much for Women
January 12, 2011 by Michelle Chen · 2 Comments
The latest employment figures place the economic “recovery” firmly on the Y chromosome. According to the National Women’s Law Center, the unemployment crisis declined for men in 2010–but ...Read More
Homelessness Creeps Up on Working Americans
January 4, 2011 by Michelle Chen · 3 Comments
Many cities will begin the New Year with a sad resolution: to make sure the number of homeless families doesn’t grow as much as it did the year before. A new survey of homelessness covering ...Read More
A Bitter Pill: Birth Rates Fall, But It’s No Reproductive-Rights Victory
December 29, 2010 by Michelle Chen · Leave a Comment
It seems that the Great Recession may have done for America’s teens what countless hours of puritanical preaching have failed to: dissuaded them from having babies. Federal health authorities ...Read More
Housing Crisis Lingers in New Orleans
September 7, 2010 by Michelle Chen · Leave a Comment
Though the storm has long since passed, women and children in New Orleans are still without shelter. According to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, while the city’s recovery hobbles forward ...Read More
Can Rosie Get a Green-Collar Job?
August 23, 2010 by Adina Nack · 13 Comments
Is President Obama’s emphasis on green jobs in his stimulus legislation–$55 million in funds directed toward developing green training programs–a 21st-century version of the New ...Read More
Even in a Recession, Flex Makes (Dollars and) Sense
August 9, 2010 by Nanette Fondas · Leave a Comment
Flex time, job-sharing, compressed schedules and telecommuting: These workplace practices are needed now more than ever as we juggle the demands of work and other life commitments in a global, 24/7 ...Read More
Stay-At-Home-Dads On The Rise? Not So Fast…
June 20, 2010 by Elizabeth Black · 43 Comments
Stay-at-home dads are all the rage in the media since this rotten economy has forced many unemployed men back in the ranks of the homestead. Judging from the plethora of Father’s Day articles ...Read More
