Brenda Berkman, who sued the city of New York to ensure that women could become firefighters, has fought to raise awareness of the women first responders on the frontlines during 9/11.
A study of hundreds of pregnant women over a decade found that 72 percent of those who were denied care ended up living in poverty.
Growth in the industries that had helped women regain jobs in the labor force this year ground to a halt in August, as the spread of the Delta variant drove business closures.
At Whole Woman’s Health in Fort Worth, it was a race to perform as many abortions as possible until midnight, when a new Texas ban on the procedure became law.
Families that include undocumented immigrants are reporting not receiving the child tax credit, even after the law was changed to make them eligible for the first time.
After 17 months of compounding trauma, the same people who have been most affected by the pandemic — women, people of color and LGBTQ+ people — are taking on one last burden: the vaccination effort.
LGBTQ+ people, who already are more likely to experience housing insecurity, get some relief with a new partial moratorium eviction. But they will face barriers to accessing aid when it expires in October.
Of the 943,000 net jobs added in July, women accounted for 649,000. That growth helped drive down unemployment rates across the board. But rates are still high for Black women and Latinas.
Data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on how Americans split their time last year shows moms of young kids spent about eight hours a day on child care while spending six hours on average working.
A wave of dads pushing for paid family leave policies has taken the issue from a non-starter to one that could potentially become national policy.