The Trump administration is using one of the oldest tools of patriarchy—promising rewards for compliance—through a wave of proposed pronatalist policies designed to push women into motherhood and encourage them to give birth to more children. Among...
But a report published by the National Women’s Law Center, which compiled and analyzed the now-deleted O.P.M. data, showed that government agencies that were targeted for the deepest cuts had employed the highest percentages of women...
Immigrant workers aren’t the only ones leaving the workforce. Black employment has dropped as well. According to a Bureau of Labor Statistics report from August 1, 7.2% of Black Americans are unemployed compared with 4.2% of the...
Title IX was passed by Congress in 1972, and outlawed discrimination on the basis of sex at educational institutions receiving federal funding. While the eligibility of transgender athletes to participate in athletic competition is not...
It was in June, the Supreme Court reviewed a similar policy for a school district in Maryland. The ruling for Mahmoud v. Taylor states that a group of parents could opt their kids out of these lessons...
Federal job cuts could also play a role, as women – especially Black women – have been “quite successful” at building careers at the federal, local and state government, according to Stefania Albanesi, an economics professor...
