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A 2019 IWPR released a report on a study funded by the March of Dimes Center for Social Science Research. The study, which investigated factors related to women's workforce participation after having a child, found that nearly 30% of women leave their jobs in the year following childbirth or adoption, with 20% of women not returning to work ...
In 1990, women's labor force participation in the US was 74% compared to the non-US average of 67.1%, ranking the US 6th out of 22. In 2010, women's participation increased slightly to 75.2% in the US, while the non-US average jumped more than 12 percentage points to 79.5%. As a result, US women ranked 17th out of 22 countries only 20 years later.
Women in America: Indicators of Social and Economic Well-Being is a report issued in 2011 by the United States Department of Commerce Economics and Statistics Administration and the Executive Office of the President Office of Management and Budget for the White House Council on Women and Girls, during the administration of President Barack Obama. [1]
The new study surveyed more than 900 women in leadership roles in four industries where women comprise a large share of the workforce — health care, higher education, law and faith-based nonprofits.
In 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which insured women's suffrage (although some individual states allowed women the right to vote as early as 1869), was ratified. In addition, the Women's Bureau of the Department of Labor was created to monitor working conditions for women in the workforce. [4]
The journal is abstracted and indexed in Social Sciences Citation Index and Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences. [6] According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2015 impact factor of 0.214, ranking it 37th out of 40 journals in the category "Women's Studies". [7]
Cannon also In the same study from 2020, discusses worldwide gender inequality, stating that “The relative poverty of women worldwide also creates greater barriers in the face of environmental hazards, since women tend to experience poorer nutrition, limited health care, and, in the case of single, divorced, and widowed women, fewer sources ...
Women's education is one of the major explanatory variables behind the rates of social and economic development, [1] and has been shown to have a positive correlation with both. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] According to notable economist Lawrence Summers , "investment in the education of girls may well be the highest-return investment available in the ...