A rise in streaming has impacted the sustainability of the television industry. Now marginalized writers are at risk of leaving the profession.
A first-of-its-kind report from the Department of Labor studying women in their early 40s calculated how much they lose as a result of their caregiving responsibilities for children and parents. The impact is especially high for Latinas.
The clashing of cultural norms with American systems is especially clear to Asian-American and Pacific Islander women — the most likely group to be caring for elderly parents in the United States.
The law extends protections to 9 million additional lactating parents and allows workers to sue their employer if they are not compliant.
Moms are still often laid off while on parental leave, pushed out of workplaces and subjected to stereotypes about their competency. But with few legal protections, attorneys say most cases go unreported.
A series of executive actions directs federal agencies to make it easier to access child care and long-term care for older adults and those with disabilities, while increasing pay for those who provide it.
The number of women breadwinners has tripled in the past 50 years. But even as women work and earn more, a Pew study found that men had more leisure time as women continued to take up the bulk of the work at home.
Under the AAPI umbrella, there are some of the highest earners among women — and the lowest. That obscures the economic realities of Southeast Asian, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander women.
After the pandemic decimated the child care industry, parents are now routinely waiting years for care and doing anything they can to get off a waitlist.
A research team asked women of all backgrounds across the nation what an economy built to work for women should look like.