Income Security

Women face employment discrimination, overrepresentation in poorly paid jobs, difficulty accessing affordable and comprehensive health care, and greater responsibilities for unpaid caregiving. Women also face a gender wage gap, which is even wider for women of color, women with disabilities, and immigrant women. As a result, women have a greater risk of economic insecurity at every phase of their lives.

Family Support Programs

Because women face economic insecurity throughout their lives and are more likely to be supporting families on their own, public benefits programs are especially important to women.

Family Tax Credits

Historical discrimination and ongoing structural barriers have locked women and people of color out of economic opportunity. Many tax provisions not only exacerbate economic inequality, but also amplify gender and racial disparities. But family tax credits like…

Social Security & Retirement

A lifetime of lower wages and unpaid caregiving puts women at greater risk of poverty as they age than men. Strengthening Social Security and retirement savings can give women, especially women of color, a better shot…

Women at greater risk of poverty than men throughout their lives ― which means that families depending on women’s earnings are at risk.

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