Inclusion: Women of Color Policy Network Blogtag:wagner.nyu.edu,2008-10-29:/wocpn/blog/32009-11-18T21:11:46ZEstablished in 2000 with core support from Manhattan Borough President C. Virginia Fields and the Ford Foundation, the Women of Color Policy Network is the only research and policy institute in the country focused on women of color housed at a top ranked public policy school.Movable Type Pro 4.32-enJob Creation and Recovery for All: African-Americans, Latinos and The Stimulus Part IItag:wagner.nyu.edu,2009:/wocpn/blog//3.1512009-11-18T21:08:51Z2009-11-18T21:11:46ZAs the Administration suggests a supplemental Stimulus Package focused on job creation, an analysis of how it would affect communities of color is crucial."Any effective job creation bill will have to address the hemorrhaging happening in communities of color and...WOCPNhttp://wagner.nyu.edu/cgi-bin/mt/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=3&id=21 "Any effective job creation bill will have to address the hemorrhaging
happening in communities of color and the intersections of unemployment
and poverty. A special task force should be established to examine the
higher than average unemployment rates in Black and Latino communities
and to develop long-term strategies to support long-term recovery."
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Parenting with a Plantag:wagner.nyu.edu,2009:/wocpn/blog//3.1502009-11-18T21:07:15Z2009-11-18T21:08:19ZAdequate funding for TANF's Access and Visitation program will help mothers and fathers who live separately create parenting plans and get on the right track to a more stable parenting relationship.Read more...WOCPNhttp://wagner.nyu.edu/cgi-bin/mt/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=3&id=21 Read more ]]>
Health Care: Keep Your Eyes on the Prizetag:wagner.nyu.edu,2009:/wocpn/blog//3.1492009-11-18T21:02:44Z2009-11-18T21:06:51ZAs Jim Wallis of Sojourners witnesses the divided sides of the healthcare debate, he urges people to keep their eyes on the prize.Wallis says, "I have some hope that our political leaders on both sides will come back to the...WOCPNhttp://wagner.nyu.edu/cgi-bin/mt/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=3&id=21 Wallis says, "I have some hope that our political leaders on both sides will come back to the table, regardless of where the Senate bill or conference committee report lands on this issue. Indeed, I am asking them to do that. Health care is too important to too many, and we have all been working for too long for any of us to walk away from this issue.
So whatever the outcome, by an agreed compromise or by open and fair floor or committee votes, I hope and pray that neither side in the country -- pro-life or pro-choice -- walks away from critically needed health-care reform. Either make an agreement or live with the outcome of the vote. But don't walk away! Health-care reform is fundamentally an issue of social and economic justice -- one of the most critical moral issues of our time, and itself an issue of "life." It's time to do what we have sung in social movements for decades now: "Keep Your Eyes on the Prize." And hold on. Hold on."
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N.A.A.C.P. Prods Obama on Job Lossestag:wagner.nyu.edu,2009:/wocpn/blog//3.1482009-11-18T20:56:40Z2009-11-18T21:02:28ZThe N.A.A.C.P and other group, including AFL-CIO and National Council of La Raza have joined forces to urge President Obama to create more jobs as unemployment among blacks reach over 15 percent.They want to increase private-sector job growth through tax...WOCPNhttp://wagner.nyu.edu/cgi-bin/mt/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=3&id=21 They want to increase private-sector job growth through tax credits and loans to small and medium businesses.
In a joint statement, the group say, "Americans are confronting the worst jobs situation in more than half a
century. This is not a situation we must continue to
tough out. A robust plan to create jobs in transparent, effective, and
equitable ways can put America back to work."
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In Downturn's Wake, Women Hold Half of U.S. Jobstag:wagner.nyu.edu,2009:/wocpn/blog//3.1472009-11-18T20:53:34Z2009-11-18T20:56:27ZThe Department of Labor reports, "There is evidence that women's growing representation in the labor force stems not only from men losing their jobs but from women who previously didn't work seeking employment. Since the recession began, the number of...WOCPNhttp://wagner.nyu.edu/cgi-bin/mt/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=3&id=21 What does this mean? ]]>
Women on Pace to Become Majority of Unionized Workers within a Decadetag:wagner.nyu.edu,2009:/wocpn/blog//3.1432009-11-11T19:04:54Z2009-11-11T19:07:08ZCenter for Economic and Policy Research reports that women now make up about 45 percent of union members, up from just 35 percent in 1983. That number is expected to move past 50 percent by 2020. White men now make...WOCPNhttp://wagner.nyu.edu/cgi-bin/mt/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=3&id=21 Read the analysis ]]>
Misconceptions Stymie Women's Careers: studytag:wagner.nyu.edu,2009:/wocpn/blog//3.1422009-11-11T19:01:06Z2009-11-11T19:04:45ZIn a new research, Jenny Hoobler, of the University of Illinois at Chicago, and her co-authors, Sandy Wayne and Grace Lemmon say,"The women's movement of the 60s and 70s in the United States brought revolutionary change in terms of women's...WOCPNhttp://wagner.nyu.edu/cgi-bin/mt/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=3&id=21 Read more ]]>
WHO: AIDS leading cause of death, disease in womentag:wagner.nyu.edu,2009:/wocpn/blog//3.1412009-11-11T18:58:33Z2009-11-11T19:00:48ZWHO chief Dr. Margaret Chan called it a "preventable tragedy" that nearly 15 percent of deaths in adult women occur in maternity, according to the statistics from 2004. AIDS virus is the leading cause of death and disease among women...WOCPNhttp://wagner.nyu.edu/cgi-bin/mt/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=3&id=21 AIDS virus is the leading cause of death and disease among women between the ages of 15 and 44.
How can this be prevented or resolved? ]]>
Women Crucial to Prosperitytag:wagner.nyu.edu,2009:/wocpn/blog//3.1402009-11-11T18:49:20Z2009-11-11T18:58:21Z Empowering women is one of the most effective and positive forces for improving conditions around the globe because resolving issues such as security, governance, and environmental challenges of our time cannot be solved without the participation of women at...WOCPNhttp://wagner.nyu.edu/cgi-bin/mt/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=3&id=21 Read full story ]]>
Women, Poverty and Health: A Vicious Cycletag:wagner.nyu.edu,2009:/wocpn/blog//3.1392009-11-11T18:45:46Z2009-11-11T18:49:00ZIrasema Garza of Legal Momentum say, ""It is especially poor and low-income women, women of color, and immigrant women who are driven into the most hazardous and low-status jobs, who are given the least amount of flexibility in their schedules...WOCPNhttp://wagner.nyu.edu/cgi-bin/mt/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=3&id=21 Read further analysis of this cycle ]]>
WHO Report Calls for Improved Healthcare for Women, Girlstag:wagner.nyu.edu,2009:/wocpn/blog//3.1372009-11-09T17:28:50Z2009-11-09T17:31:41ZWOCPNhttp://wagner.nyu.edu/cgi-bin/mt/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=3&id=21
WHO report, health systems tend to be "unresponsive to the
needs of women despite the fact that women themselves are major
contributors to health, through their roles as primary care givers in
the family and also health care providers."
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What Women Want in Healthcaretag:wagner.nyu.edu,2009:/wocpn/blog//3.1352009-11-04T19:36:36Z2009-11-04T19:38:40Z"It is clear that women value their right to spend their own money to purchase the private insurance they want, and object to penalizing those who choose not to participate in whatever a distant bureaucrat deems acceptable. They do not...WOCPNhttp://wagner.nyu.edu/cgi-bin/mt/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=3&id=21 Read Full Story ]]>
After Gender Bias, Women Face Gender Fatiguetag:wagner.nyu.edu,2009:/wocpn/blog//3.1332009-11-02T19:25:40Z2009-11-02T19:27:09ZPeople assume that gender no longer matters in 2009 because the issue has long been solved"Gender fatigue actually refers to the phenomenon that people lack the energy to construct the workplace again and again as gender neutral despite the fact...WOCPNhttp://wagner.nyu.edu/cgi-bin/mt/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=3&id=21 "Gender fatigue actually refers to the phenomenon that people lack the energy to construct the workplace again and again as gender neutral despite the fact that discrimination continues to exist."
It will make it more challenging to tackle the discrimination that still happens in the workplace but in more subtle ways.
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Women Say More About an Economy Than Money Doestag:wagner.nyu.edu,2009:/wocpn/blog//3.1322009-11-02T19:23:19Z2009-11-02T19:24:55ZFemales make up half of the globe's population, and prosperity and competitiveness are contingent upon achieving gender equality. Here, the World Economic Forum's latest Global Gender Gap Index offers timely and telling insights into growth trajectories near and far. Read...WOCPNhttp://wagner.nyu.edu/cgi-bin/mt/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=3&id=21 Read Full Story
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A Women's Nation Changes Everything: Or Does It?tag:wagner.nyu.edu,2009:/wocpn/blog//3.1312009-11-02T19:20:50Z2009-11-02T19:23:12ZAccording to The Shriver Report: A Women's Nation Changes Everything, we women have finally made it. Although the report focuses mainly on women with families, it tells us that women are now 50 percent of the paid workforce.So now that...WOCPNhttp://wagner.nyu.edu/cgi-bin/mt/mt-cp.cgi?__mode=view&blog_id=3&id=21 So now that we women are becoming the primary breadwinners, and our wages are supposedly rising faster than men's (Wall Street Journal, October 17, 2009), will the tables turn?