As repayment has resumed for millions of borrowers, an expert on the student debt crisis considers the racialized and gendered nature of student debt
Advocates continue to push for policy changes to help low-income workers, including minimum wage increases and improved access to child care and to family and medical leave.
What can we do about this potential gendered impact of AI on the workforce?
Understanding the hospitality industry as one where unwanted attention is assumed to be normal paints a bleak picture.
Many Brazilian organizations know that diversity is good business and have been fighting for minorities’ employability for years.
There is now evidence that can be used by countries who want to sue the heaviest polluters in the world: the United States, China, Brazil, Russia, and India.
Regardless of the outcome of the appeal, the law has already had a positive effect.
While a record number of women are employed in construction jobs, the industry needs to do more to recruit and retain them.
I’m aware that the road to entrepreneurship is somewhat filled with potholes for women.
Over a decade after the Great Recession, women workers are still struggling. New research identifies ways to a more inclusive economic recovery this time around.
As the COVID-19 crisis intensifies, women workers, especially those who are unmarried and in low-wage jobs, have been hit especially hard.
A new rule announced by the Securities and Exchange Commission could enable investors and other groups to hold companies accountable for their impact on communities.
At a time when millions have experienced disruptions in their ways of working, traditional artisans — the original remote workers — offer lessons on the future of work.
Current advocacy is based on an understanding of the intersections of reproductive justice and economic justice.
The measure, the first paid leave law to pass by ballot measure, will help workers who need it the most.
The corporate sector has refused to be ahead of the curve in diversity even though we’ve been sounding the alarm all along.
As the U.S. tax filing deadline approaches, three recent reports reveal the tax law’s disparate impact on women and other groups.
Pandemic-related lockdowns disproportionally burden women. By asking the right questions, policymakers can create policies that alleviate that burden.
Low-paid women workers have been devastated by the displacement cause by the pandemic. Advocacy groups are rallying to help them.
The question of who will participate in and who will be excluded from the future of work — in times of crisis and the rest — requires a thorough analysis.
Nearly 90 percent of people in 75 countries demonstrated at least one bias against equality—with 91 percent of men and 86 percent of women showing bias in one of the four areas studied.
As financial markets place more emphasis on companies’ social and environmental impact, the social risk created by large-scale protest can affect their bottom line.
In 2019, across the world, the number of years it will take women to reach equal pay and opportunities with men increased by 55 years.
In a stunning display of greed—or possibly deep ignorance—two popular Japanese clothing brands have purposely turned a human rights tragedy into a selling point: Muji and Uniqlo have both been touting the fact that the cotton for their clothing comes from Xinjiang, China, an area in which a million Muslim Uighurs have reportedly been detained in “reeducation” camps.
As lawmakers in many places turn their backs on women, new research shows that employees want companies to take on the fight for their reproductive freedom.
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