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The Foundation researches and educates on women’s issues to acknowledge barriers and identify opportunities.
Commissioned by the WNY Women’s Foundation and created by UB Regional Institute, the 2010 Pathways to Progress Report examined the issues facing women and girls in our community. The report started an ongoing region-wide dialogue about the best ways to support and elevate women and girls.
Pathways to Progress, Vol. 2, a report created by the WNY Women’s Foundation, keeps us moving forward. The new report expands the dialogue with updated data that explore the current status of women and girls in WNY. By diving into the barriers women face throughout their lifespans, the report highlights opportunities and success stories. This educational tool is available to the community thanks to the generous support of the James H. Cummings Foundation, Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo, Health Foundation of Western & Central NY, John R. Oishei Foundation, Joy Family Foundation, Patrick P. Lee Foundation, SEFCU, and WNY Foundation.
Download Pathways to Progress, Vol. 2. Read it, digest, and find the connections that you can make to the women and girls in your family, community, and work. The full reference list for the report is available for download and many of the reports cited are included in this data hub.
In our effort to educate the community and raise awareness, the Foundation has curated research and organized it by topic area. The research below can be filtered by topic with citations and links to original researchers. Alternately, it can be sorted by date of publication. Contact us if your organization has a report to include.
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Domestic Violence: Finding Safety and Support
This booklet is for anyone who may be abused, or anyone who thinks they know someone who may be abused. It is not always easy to recognize abuse.
Published Aug. 2019 Office for the Prevention of Domestic Violence
ALL IN FOR WOMEN & GIRLS: How women’s fund and foundation donors are leading through philanthropy
This study uses data from high-net-worth donors to understand how those donors support women’s and girls’ causes. However, its larger message about cultivating deep, personal, long-term engagements with donors can apply to all areas of philanthropy.
Published Jul. 2019 IUPUI Women's Philanthropy Institute
To achieve gender equality, we need to support men as caregivers
A crucial part of the fight for gender equality has long stayed in the shadows: support for men as caregivers. In the United States and much of the world, laws, policies, and stigmas still push women to be caregivers and prevent men from having the option.
Published Jun. 2019 Evoke
Eliminating Unconscious Bias in Hiring: How One Female Tech CEO is Shaking Things Up
Contrary to popular thought, having the right degrees, skills and work experience doesn’t guarantee your dream job.
Published Jun. 2019 ECMC Foundation
Sexual Harassment Laws to Change in NY Under Bill Passed by Legislature
"We don’t yet have the strongest laws in the nation, but we’re a lot closer, and we’ll continue to work until we do
Published Jun. 2019 The New York Law Journal
Two incomes don’t mean a secure retirement, study says
Married women in two-income families are at the greatest risk of not being able to maintain their standard of living in retirement.
Published Jun. 2019 bizwomen
Money Is Not Just for Men
Sallie Krawcheck — once a Wall Street executive, now an advocate for women investing — on how women can get their fair share.
Published Jun. 2019 New York Times
Quick Take: Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)
Few women in the United States are earning degrees in STEM, except in the life sciences.
Published Jun. 2019 Catalyst
Women reach their earnings peak 11 years before men and are paid $35,000 less, survey shows
Women reach their peak earning potential some 11 years before men and earn a salary almost $35,000 lower than their male counterparts, a new study has found.
Published Jun. 2019 Post 24x7
For parents who work nights and weekends, study finds child care is especially difficult
Despite the apparent gap between supply and need, child care providers aren’t rushing to fill the void.
Published Jun. 2019 PA Post
Pennsylvania Makes Degree Apprenticeships Part of its Strategy for Preparing a Qualified Early Learning Workforce
In late April, Pennsylvania’s Office of Child Development and Early Learning (OCDEL) convened 11 of the state’s institutions of higher education that prepare the early childhood education (ECE) teachers. The convening took place on the heels of the Pennsylvania Early Learning Economic Summit, highlighting the critical role that quality ECE plays in children's social-emotional development, academic success, and career trajectories. It was part of a broader state-wide effort to build ECE registered apprenticeships for incumbent and future early childhood professionals.
Published Jun. 2019 New America
Making “Free College” Programs Work for College Students with Children
This briefing paper focuses on characteristics of the student parent population that make inclusive college promise programs an imperative for improving equity in college access and completion.
Published Jun. 2019 Institute for Women's Policy Research
These are the jobs popular with older workers
About 40 percent of Americans 55 and older are working or seeking employment, according to March data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Published Jun. 2019 bizwomen
The pay gap is real. Companies are still debating on what to do.
While most companies are aware of the need for pay parity, one-third of employers that have identified a pay gap among employees are still debating remedying it.
Published May. 2019 Bizwomen
The chasm that is WNY’s gender gap
While more women join corporate boards – and while there are many women in charge of health and human services organizations and law firms in this region – corporate chief executive jobs by and large continue to be occupied by men.
Published May. 2019 Buffalo Business First
Statement of Pronita Gupta Testimony Before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means
I am the Director of Job Quality at the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP), an anti-poverty organization that promotes effective federal and state policies for low-income families and individuals. I am truly honored to come before this committee to speak to the central importance of paid family and medical leave for all workers, and especially for low-income workers, parents, children, seniors, and people of color.
Published May. 2019 CLASP
Support Single Mothers in College to Make Education More Equitable for All
To truly address the pressing issues of equity, access, affordability, and completion facing higher education, a growing movement of researchers, philanthropists, student activists, and college administrators are working to integrate family caregiving and support services into a 21st-century vision of college.
Published May. 2019 Stanford Social Innovation Review
Do They Kick Out Pregnant People?’ Navigating College With Kids
tudent parents are mostly women (about 70 percent) they are more likely to be from low-income families and students of color. In fact, 2 in 5 black women in college are mothers, and the majority of them are single.
Published May. 2019 National Public Radio
Child Care and Early Education Equity: A State Action Agenda
Child Care and Early Education Equity: A State Action Agenda outlines the important role state policymakers can play to ensure equity in their states’ early education efforts.
Published May. 2019 CLASP
Women’s Student Debt Crisis in the United States
Women hold nearly two-thirds of the outstanding student debt in the United States — almost $929 billion as of early-2019.
Published May. 2019 AAUW
Child Care and Housing: Big Expenses With Too Little Help Available
Stable, affordable housing and high-quality, affordable child care are essential to families’ economic stability, parents’ ability to work, and children’s healthy development. But due to inadequate funding, just 1 in 6 children eligible for child care assistance — and 1 in 5 families with children eligible for housing assistance — receives it.
Published Apr. 2019 Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
EMPLOYMENT CHARACTERISTICS OF FAMILIES — 2018
These data on employment, unemployment, and family relationships are collected as part of the Current Population Survey (CPS), a monthly survey of about 60,000 households.
Published Apr. 2019 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Building the Case for Culturally Specific P-3 Strategies in Oregon
Oregon policymakers have opportunity to address early learning by investing into work of culturally specific organizations within the P-3 system of supports.
Published Apr. 2019 Oregon Community Foundation
PARENTS IN COLLEGE By the Numbers
Investments in the postsecondary success of parents with young children can increase attainment of credentials leading to good jobs, bring children the benefits of high-quality learning environments, promote later college-going among children, and improve family economic security across generations.
Published Apr. 2019 Institute for Women's Policy Research
Inequitable Access to Child Care Subsidies
Child care is an essential support for families, allowing parents to work while their children learn and grow in a safe environment. Many families with low incomes qualify for child care assistance through the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG), but few get the support they need due to a lack of investment in the program.
Published Apr. 2019 CLASP
Schuyler Center’s Last Look at the State Fiscal Year 2019-20 Budget
On April 1, 2019, the New York State Legislature and Governor reached agreement on the 2019-20 State Budget. Schuyler Center’s Last Look is our assessment of the enacted State budget as it compares to Schuyler Center’s policy priorities.
Published Apr. 2019 SCAA Schuyler Center for analysis and advocacy
A Guide to Creating “Safe Space” Policies for Early Childhood Programs
This guide provides practitioners, advocates, and policymakers with information and resources to design and implement “safe space” policies that safeguard early childhood programs against immigration enforcement.
Published Apr. 2019 CLASP
What happens when women stop leading like men
Women now lead industries where once the thin air was inhaled only by men. For the first time, women have the top jobs at the New York Stock Exchange and at Nasdaq.
Published Mar. 2019 Ny Times
Wanted: 3,732 Women to Govern Corporate America
According to a new Bloomberg analysis, this sea change could offer women 692 seats at the table, enough to cause a measurable shift in the gender balance of U.S. company boards overall.
Published Mar. 2019 Bloomberg
The Child Care Crisis is Keeping Women out of the Work Force
Challenges of staying at work while raising a child- families forced to make the decision to leave work to become full-time caregiver or to stay at work and struggle to pay childcare's high-costs.
Published Mar. 2019 American Progress
On a Mission to Create Paths Out of Poverty for Single Mothers
According to the Institute of Women’s Policy Research (IWPR), only8% of single motherswho enroll in college will graduate with an associate or bachelor’s degree within six years, compared to 54% of married mothers and 40% of women overall.
Published Mar. 2019 ECMC Foundation
Behind the gains for women in corporate leadership
A Business Journals analysis of roughly 1,800 publicly traded companies found women now account for 15 percent of all board seats, up from 11 percent five years prior.
Published Feb. 2019 bizwomen
12 Ways to Help Women in Retail Advance into Management
Over the last couple of years, hundreds of companies have made high-profile pledges to increase gender and racial equity. These commitments — including CEO Action Pledge, Paradigm for Parity, and UN’s HeForShe campaign — have garnered much public attention, but not enough companies have taken action.
Published Feb. 2019 Harvard Business Review
Stop Telling Me I Look Younger Than My Age
We disclose our ages and the ages of our friends like apologies then immediately slap on the absurd statement that we (or they) look so much “younger.” This is ageism at its most insidious ― cloaked as a compliment.
Published Feb. 2019 Huff Post
A Seat at the Head of the Table
From the 1970's, women have made serious progress in the workplace. Then that progress has stalled, especially at the top.
Published Feb. 2019 NY Times
Why Older Workers are the Economy’s Hidden Asset
Americans have a different view of what "retirement" means
Published Feb. 2019 Fast Company
It’s 2019. Women are less likely to be identified by their accomplishments.
How women's accomplishments are often overlooked
Published Feb. 2019 Huff Post
The State of Early Learning in NY
Plans to improve NYS education system and increase opportunity
Published Feb. 2019 Ready for Kindergarten, Ready for College
It’s 2019. Women Are Still Less Likely To Be Identified By Their Accomplishments.
Research shows that descriptions of women are less likely to include their careers, and that has a negative ripple effect.
Published Feb. 2019 Huffington Post
Diversity on Your Board. Here’s how to Make it Happen.
Womens minimal corporate roles and how they can benefit a corporate board in decision-making
Published Feb. 2019 Harvard Business Review
Aligning and Streamlining Systems to Secure Better Outcomes for Families
State Leaders are leveraging the two-generation approach to advance outcomes for children and families. Aspen Institute has continued to solidify its role as a national hub fir breakthrough ideas to help families reach their full potential.
Published Feb. 2019 The Aspen Institute
5 things I’ve learned working with a women-dominated engineering team
In the summer of 2017, a male software engineer published a 10-page anti-diversity manifesto that gained notoriety. He inferred, among other things, that men are naturally more suited to careers in tech.
Published Feb. 2019 Fast Company
Why Girls Beat Boys at School and Lose to Them at the Office
Hard work and discipline help girls outperform boys in class, but that advantage disappears in the work force. Is school the problem?
Published Feb. 2019 New York Times
Testimony of Center for Children’s Initiatives
Joint Legislative Public Hearing 2019-20, Executive Budget Proposal: Elementary and Secondary Education
Published Feb. 2019 Center for Children's Initiatives
Workplaces Aren’t Paying Attention To The Growing Caretaking Crisis, And It’s Costing Them Talent
The caretaking crisis that’s coming in America is not just about women and children: it’s also about millennials, men, executive leaders, and seniors.
Published Jan. 2019 Forbes
Research: Gender Pay Gaps Shrink When Companies Are Required to Disclose Them
We have just conducted the first empirical study on the impact of mandatory wage transparency. That study’s results suggest that disclosing disparities in gender pay does in fact narrow the gender wage gap.
Published Jan. 2019 Havard Business Review
The Negative Effects of Elderspeak
Talking down to older adults is not only disrespectful, but it can be detrimental.
Published Jan. 2019 Next Avenue
Inclusion in the directors chair
Yearly, the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative examines diversity and inclusion in the director’s chair across the 100 top-grossing motion pictures. For 2018, our annual analysis focuses on gender, race, and age of 1,335 helmers spanning 1,200 of the highest earning fictional films released domestically between 2007 and 2018. Clearly, this is the most intersectional assessment of directors behind the camera in film to date.
Published Jan. 2019 Anneberg Foundation
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE COUNTS New York Summary
On September 13, 2018, 95 out of 97 (98%) identified domestic violence programs in New York participated in the National Census of Domestic Violence Services. The following figures represent the information provided by these 95 participating programs about services provided during the 24-hour survey period.
Published Jan. 2019 National Network to End Domestic Violence
13th Annual Domestic Violence Counts Report
On September 13, 2018, for the thirteenth consecutive year, the National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV) conducted a one-day, unduplicated census of domestic violence services requested and received across the country. The data – including the number of individuals accessing services, the types of services they requested, and the number of unmet requests – appears in the context of the stories and experiences of survivors and advocates.
Published Jan. 2019 National Network to End Domestic Violence
The State of New York’s Children
Overview of NYS General Children Statistics in 2019
Published Jan. 2019 Schuyler Center for Analysis and Advocacy
THE STATE OF THE GENDER PAY GAP 2019
The uncontrolled gender pay gap, which takes the ratio of median earnings of all women to all men, decreased by $0.05 since 2015. However, women still make only $0.79 for every dollar men make in 2019.
Published Jan. 2019 Payscale
2019 KIDS COUNT DATA BOOK STATE TRENDS IN CHILD WELL-BEING
This 30th edition of the Data Book examines how America’s child population has changed, demographically and geographically. Many of the contrasts are dramatic.
Published Jan. 2019 The Annie E. Casey Foundation
Inclusion in the Directors Chair
Women's successes in the film field
Published Jan. 2019 USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative
The Celluloid Ceiling: Behind-the-Scenes Employment of Women
Womens staggering success in film related careers.
Published Jan. 2019 Martha M. Lauzen
Better with Age?
How the youth views seniors & the aging process
Published Jan. 2019 A Place for Mom
Comptroller Mychajliw Announces Audit of Erie County Family Leave Policies
Comptroller Mychajliw impanels “Erie County Comptroller’s Family Leave Commission,” charged with making recommendations to change outdated family leave policies
Published Jan. 2019 Erie County
Gender equality in the nursery is the key to achieving gender equality in the workplace
In the 21st century, both men and women are needed in the workplace and the nursery. Because when the male hand also rocks the cradle, the world wins.
Published Dec. 2018 NBC News
The Global Gender Gap Report 2018
Through this report we aim to inspire ongoing efforts and further action to accelerate the achievement of full gender equality via collaboration, partnerships and innovative solutions that will improve the lives of millions of women and men in the near future. We call upon every reader of this report to join these efforts.
Published Dec. 2018 World Economic Forum
Not Just ‘Lean In:’ Michelle Obama Busted Another Myth About Working Women on Her ‘Becoming’ Book Tour
Michelle Obama’s quip about the ‘Lean In’ philosophy being “shit” that “doesn’t work”—which she made during a stop on her Becoming book tour—generated plenty of headlines and Internet guffawing this week.
Published Dec. 2018 Fortune
Creating an Integrated Efficient Early Care and Education System to Support Children and Families: A State-by-State Analysis
Creating an early care and education system to support children & their families
Published Dec. 2018 BiPartisan Policy Center
Early Childhood Agenda for Governors in 2019
In this report, CAP lays out an agenda for governors to make progress on early childhood in 2019 and beyond. Families need affordable, high-quality early childhood programs and supports for healthy child development from birth to kindergarten that reflect parents’ needs and prepare children for school.
Published Dec. 2018 Center for American Progress
Creating Gender Equality at Work in 2019
As the largest career community for women, Fairygodboss engages with millions of career-minded women. As a result, we’ve developed keen insights into what the women in our community are experiencing at work.
Published Dec. 2018 Fairygodboss
Improving NY Child Welfare Outcomes by Strengthening Family Economic Security
NYS Childhood Poverty and their steps to decrease these rates
Published Dec. 2018 Schuyler Center for Analysis and Advocacy
Gender gap is smaller in Buffalo than in most metros, but it’s still wide
The gender gap is substantial and persistent in the Buffalo metropolitan area, but the local disparity is not as large as those in most major U.S. metros.
Published Nov. 2018 Buffalo Business First
Setting the Stage for Emerging Themes in Public Policy
Partnership in Springfield, MA with the goal to elevate leadership of local young women.
Published Nov. 2018 The Young Women's Initiative
Childcare Affordability for Working Parents
Childcare is inaffordable for the majority of working parents. Especially for low-income and black and Hispanic working parents.
Published Nov. 2018 Diversity Data Kids
The Economic Pathways to Gender Equality
Is 2018 the Year of the Woman 2.0? Women are speaking out against harassment and entering politics at unprecedented levels—but while women have made progress on important fronts, many barriers to equality remain, and most of them are economic.
Published Nov. 2018 Ms. Magazine
Diversifying the Field of Economics is Critical to Achieving Gender Equality
Economics, as a discipline, tends to dominate public policy debate in the United States; policies that promote economic growth and a healthy job market are rightly priorities for our policymakers and elected leaders.
Published Nov. 2018 Ms. Magazine
Understanding the True Cost of Child Care for Infants and Toddlers
Using data from the Center for American Progress’ “Where Does Your Child Care Dollar Go?” tool and new analysis that estimates the cost of home-based family child care, this report looks at this “giant math equation” specifically as it relates to infant and toddler care.
Published Nov. 2018 Center for American Progress
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY, UNEQUAL OUTCOMES: EXPLORING GENDER INEQUALITY IN POST-COLLEGE CAREER OUTCOMES
This article looks at the factors that shape college-educated women’s careers as they prepare to enter the work force and the role of higher education in positioning female students for lifelong professional success.
Published Nov. 2018 National Association of Colleges and Employers
Investing in Single Mothers’ Higher Education: Costs and Benefits to Individuals, Families, and Society
Postsecondary education is a reliable pathway to economic security and is increasingly important to securing family-sustaining employment.
Published Oct. 2018 Institute for Women's Policy Research
Closing the Gender Gap: A Missed Opportunity for New CEO’s
Management should create opportunities for New CEOs to boost gender diversity.
Published Oct. 2018 Mckinsey and Company
Against Women- but Steps Could Fix that
Survey finds that women are unrepresented at every corporate level in the U.S.
Published Oct. 2018 Market Watch
Basic Economic Security in the United States
This fact sheet presents new national and state-level BEST data calculated by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research.
Published Oct. 2018 Institute for Women's Policy Research
Understanding Infant and Toddler Child Care Deserts
Building on previous child care deserts analysis conducted by the Center for American Progress, this study quantifies the extent of this problem by analyzing the availability of licensed child care for infants and toddlers in nine states and the District of Columbia.
Published Oct. 2018 Center for American Progress
Women and Leadership 2018
Wide gender and party gaps in views about the state of female leadership and the obstacles women face
Published Sep. 2018 Pew Research Center
Men, women differ over some qualities they see as essential for political and business leadership
Men and women in the United States generally agree on many of the personal qualities and competencies they see as essential for political and business leaders to have. But there are notable differences in the importance they ascribe to some of those qualities, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.
Published Sep. 2018 Pew Research Center
The Data on Women Leaders
Majorities of Americans see men and women as equally capable when it comes to some of the key qualities and behaviors that are essential for top leaders in politics and business.
Published Sep. 2018 Pew Research Center
The Simple Truth about the Gender Pay Gap Fall 2018
This guide provides key facts about the gender pay gap in the United States. Included are breakdowns of the gender pay gap by race and ethnicity, by education, by age, and by occupation, as well as a detailed discussion of the causes of the gender pay gap.
Published Sep. 2018 AAUW
Raising Expectations: A State-by-State Analysis of Laws That Help Working Family Caregivers
This report, Raising Expectations , examines and grades states based on whether and to what extent their laws help people manage their work, health and care needs by guaranteeing workers’ access to paid or unpaid workplace leave.
Published Sep. 2018 National Partnership for Women & Families
The Costs of Motherhood Are Rising, and Catching Women Off Guard
College-educated women in particular underestimate the demands of parenthood and the difficulties of combining working and parenting, new research shows.
Published Aug. 2018 NY Times
Women-Owned Businesses Have Less Access to Capital, Fewer Intellectual Property Rights, and Much Lower Revenues
Women-owned businesses with employees are less likely than businesses owned by men to hold intellectual property rights, such as patents, copyrights, and trademarks.
Published Jul. 2018 Institute for Women's Policy Research
Looking Toward the Future: A Review of Western New York’s Early Childhood System
Together with partners across Western Yew York (including Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Genesee, Erie, Niagara, Orleans, and Wyoming Counties), Liftoff engaged Public Sector Consultants to provide an outside, objective review of early childhood systems and programs in the region. We hope this report will be the foundation for many conversations in the months and years to come.
Published Jul. 2018 Cornell University ILR School
Single Mothers with College Degrees Much Less Likely to Live in Poverty
Earning a postsecondary degree is a well-established pathway out of poverty, and degrees are especially life-changing for women raising children on their own.
Published Jul. 2018 Institute for Women's Policy Research
One-third of the people in these eight WNY neighborhoods are living in poverty
Business First has collected the latest poverty data for all 81 Western New York ZIPs with populations above 5,000.
Published Jun. 2018 Buffalo Business First
At the Wage Floor
We provide background about the shared and divergent challenges in the homecare and early care and education industries, as well as review emerging policy initiatives to fund wage increases for homecare and early care and education workers and identify principles for public policy going forward.
Published May. 2018 Center for the Study of Child Care Employment
Single Moms in College Spend Hours a Day on Housework
Single moms who are enrolled in college full-time spend about two hours a day on active child care, six on supervisory care (meaning time spent looking after their children while doing another another activity such as cooking or cleaning), and about two hours on housework; all told, these women are spending upward of nine hours a day on care and housework.
Published May. 2018 The Atlantic
Time Demands of Single Mother College Students and the Role of Child Care in their Postsecondary Success
Time Use Among Single Mothers in College: Tradeoffs between Child Care, Studying, and Self-Care
Published May. 2018 Institute for Women's Policy Research
When “Universal” Childcare isn’t Universally High-Quality
Quebec made up for shortages in its day-care system by letting private centers step in.
Published May. 2018 The Atlantic
STEM Students Are Asking More of the #MeToo Movement
Harassment in the sciences doesn’t only come in the form of neatly packaged Title IX reports of clear sexual abuse.
Published Apr. 2018 The Nation
NYS Salary Negotiating Guide
Importance of professionally negotiating salaries and how to prepare for it .
Published Apr. 2018 NYS Department of Labor
Despite Big Enrollment Declines, Parents Make up 22 Percent of College Students
New fact sheet shows that student parents achieve higher GPAs than other students, are more likely be at for-profit schools, and have higher debt.
Published Apr. 2018 Institute for Women's Policy Research
The Gender Wage Gap by Occupation 2017 and by Race and Ethnicity
Women’s median earnings are lower than men’s in nearly all occupations, whether they work in occupations predominantly done by women, occupations predominantly done by men, or occupations with a more even mix of men and women.
Published Apr. 2018 Institute for Women's Policy Research
Gender wage inequality
Over the past 40 years, women in the United States increased their work hours, and their rising incomes became a significant part of overall household financial stability.
Published Apr. 2018 Equitable Growth
Closing the Gender Wage Gap in New York State
New York State has a long and proud tradition of leading on women's rights issues – from the movement's inception in Seneca Falls in 1848, to 1917 when New York women won the right to vote (three years before the 19th Amendment was ratified), to the passage of the historic Women's Equality Agenda in 2015.
Published Apr. 2018 NYS Department of Labor
Still a man’s labor market
Data of gender differences in wages
Published Apr. 2018 The Hamilton Project
Racial Wealth Divide Snapshot: Women and the Racial Wealth Divide
Overall, women earn lower wages and experience higher levels of poverty than men. This holds for Black and Latina women, who also earn lower wages and experience higher poverty rates than White and Asian women.
Published Mar. 2018 Prosperity Now
New Strategies Help Women Build Career Confidence
Brag books, confidence logs are among techniques experts recommend to bolster lacking self-confidence
Published Mar. 2018 Wall Street Journal
Are Gender Differences Just Power Differences in Disguise?
Across two decades of studies, persistent gender differences often chalked up to biology can be replicated by manipulating an individual’s level of power.
Published Mar. 2018 Columbia Business School
The State of Women: The Bad, the Ugly, and the Good
This presentation on women’s rights and the women’s movement is a snapshot of a big and complex story.
Published Mar. 2018 Lean in
When money flows into the hands of women, everything changes
Women acting on their own can do what all the philanthropic organizations in the world can never accomplish: change the unwritten rule that women are lesser than men.
Published Mar. 2018 Evoke
The Economic Status of Women in the United States
Women in New York have made considerable advances in recent years but still face inequities that often prevent them from reaching their full potential.
Published Mar. 2018 Status of Women Data
Indigenous People of Western New York
The land that is now known as New York State has a rich history of First Nations people, many of whom continue to influence and play key roles in shaping the region. This fact sheet offers information about Native people in Western New York from the far and recent past through 2018.
Published Mar. 2018 Partnership for Public Good
The Economic Status of Women in New York
Women in New York have made considerable advances in recent years but still face inequities that often prevent them from reaching their full potential.
Published Mar. 2018 Status of Women Data
Child Care is Essential to Enhance Productivity Today and Tomorrow
Access to high-quality childcare contributes for a stronger workforce in NY
Published Mar. 2018 Council for a Strong America
Poverty in Buffalo-Niagara
Poverty in BuffaloNiagara is concentrated in urban areas. It is segregated and racialized. One major cause of poverty is jobs that do not pay enough.
Published Feb. 2018 Partnership for Public Good
Immigrants, Refugees, and Languages Spoken in Buffalo
According to 2000 Census Data, Buffalo ranked last out of 48 major metro areas in gaining immigrants, and the percentage of Buffalo residents born in foreign countries remains relatively low.
Published Feb. 2018 Cornell University ILR School
15 Biggest Challenges Women Leaders Face And How To Overcome Them
15 members of Forbes Coaches Council share what the biggest challenges their female clients are currently facing and provide advice for women leaders everywhere.
Published Feb. 2018 Forbes
College, With Kids, The Chronicle of Higher Education
College student & parenting: how colleges are accommodating for these students.
Published Feb. 2018 The Chronicle of Higher Education
New program to help women in STEM overcome gender discrimination
Many women pursuing careers in the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) workforce face such scenarios. Yet they seldom receive instruction on how to best handle them.
Published Feb. 2018 University at Buffalo
Understanding the New College Majority: The Demographic and Financial Characteristics of Independent Students and their Postsecondary Outcomes
This briefing paper provides an overview of the makeup of today’s independent student population and describes the need to improve higher education data collection to track trends in independent student postsecondary success and completion.
Published Feb. 2018 Institute for Women's Policy Research
Quebec’s Childcare Program at 20
Quebec’s childcare program and noting what other provinces seeking to develop comparable programs might learn from it.
Published Jan. 2018 Inroads Journal
Understanding Hidden Drivers: Unique Challenges, High Costs, No Vote in Rochester City School District Budgets
This policy brief explains some major drivers of revenues and expenditures, puts RCSD’s per pupil spending in context with other districts and poses questions for further study.
Published Jan. 2018 The Children's Agenda
Is Your Campus Family Friendly? Data and Tools to Promote Student Parent Success
Building a collaborative approach to improving conditions for parenting students on campus
Published Jan. 2018 Institute for Women's Policy Research
Opportunities Foreclosed, Equity Denied
NEW YORK CAN’T AFFORD TO LEAVE GENERATIONS OF CHILDREN BEHIND. STATE LEADERS MUST KEEP THE PROMISE OF PRE-K FOR ALL AND INCREASE THE INVESTMENT IN CHILD CARE.
Published Jan. 2018 Alliance for Quality Education
Womengive2018
Women Give 2018 asks how parents transmit generosity to their children and whether this differs for sons and daughters. The study first explores the linkage between whether parents give to charitable organizations and whether their adult children give. It then examines frequency and amount of parental giving as well as the parents’ wealth level to assess how these factors relate to charitable giving by the adult children.
Published Jan. 2018 Women's Philanthropy Institute
Giving by and for Women:Understanding high-net-worth donors’ support for women and girls
In an effort to understand who leads philanthropy that benefits women and girls and how these donors are unique, we embarked on a landmark study of high-net-worth women donors.
Published Jan. 2018 Women’s Philanthropy Institute
THE 2018 STATE OF WOMEN-OWNED BUSINESSES REPORT
To provide a historical view of women’s business ownership, the report compares some topline numbers from 2018 with numbers from 1972 — the first time the U.S. Census Bureau provided data on minority- and women-owned businesses and around the time baby boomers began reaching the age at which they might start a business.
Published Jan. 2018 American Express
Black women are earning more college degrees, but that alone won’t close race gaps
To understand race gaps in income and wealth at the household level, we have to look not only at education and earnings at the individual level, but also at patterns of family formation and marriage.
Published Dec. 2017 Brookings
Undervalued a Brief History of Women’s Care Work and Child Care Policy in the United States
In Part I, this report provides a brief overview of the state of child care in the United States. Part II traces how—through the persistent denigration of the care work performed by women, especially women of color, and resulting public policy decisions—we arrived at this point. and Part III identifies the policy solutions that are needed to move toward a system that works for both families and child care providers.
Published Dec. 2017 National Women's Law Center
The State of Gender Equality In The Workplace (2017)
We present research and data on what women are saying about their job satisfaction, gender equality at work, and data on how women look for jobs and what factors matter in terms of whether they stay in them.
Published Dec. 2017 Fairygodboss
Pathways to Progress, Vol. 2
100 facts that will guide our community's work to make WNY a great place for women to live, grow, and lead
Published Nov. 2017 WNY Women's Foundation
How to Encourage More Women to Report Sexual Harassment
Another day, another set of headlines about a powerful man who sexually harassed women for decades, without any repercussions besides writing checks to keep his victims quiet
Published Oct. 2017 NY Times
After 50, Women Struggle to Find a Foothold at Work
Older women in the U.S. are eager to work. And employers, facing a tight labor market and a dwindling supply of workers as older baby boomers retire, need these women.
Published Oct. 2017 The Wall Street Journal
Nudging Companies to Look Beyond the C-Suite for Women Directors
Fifty percent of the board should be women. That’s what Dan Smith, chairman of Kraton Corp., a specialty chemical company, believes about his own board.
Published Oct. 2017 Wall Street Journal
How Workers Under 30 Are Climbing the Ladder Differently
Younger women show high ambition, and young men and women share similar views on some gender-workplace issues
Published Oct. 2017 The Wall Street Journal
Finally, More Women Are Asking for Raises. But There’s a Catch.
Women don’t get raises, the conventional wisdom goes, because they simply don’t ask. A new study conducted by LeanIn.Org and McKinsey & Co. casts doubt on that assumption.
Published Oct. 2017 The Wall Street Journal
The Hidden Battle of the Sexes at Work
For all the effort employers are pouring into advancing women in the workplace, why are they making so little headway?
Published Oct. 2017 The Wall Street Journal
New Americans and a New Direction: The Role of Immigrants in Reviving the Great Lakes Region
Immigrants play an important and influential role in the economy
Published Oct. 2017 New American Economy
Principles to Improve Family Outcomes
Plans to improve NYS education system and increase opportunity
Published Oct. 2017 Center on Developing Child at Harvard University
The Competitive Advantage of Racial Equity
Racial equity by wealth, health, education, and career, and how to tackle these issues in a professional setting
Published Oct. 2017 FSG
Persistent Gaps: State Child Care Assistance Policies 2017
Need for overcoming barriers to child care assistance, using income eligibility, waiting lists, and copayment levels to advocate for policy
Published Oct. 2017 National Women's Law Center
Women Matter Time to accelerate
For a decade, our Women Matter and our Power of parity reports from the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) have explored the economic impact of increased gender diversity at macro and micro levels and how to make change happen in corporations. This anniversary publication highlights ten key insights from these ten years of research.
Published Oct. 2017 Mckinsey & Company
More than half of Buffalo children live in poverty, new census figures show
More than half of the children in Buffalo – 54 percent – lived in poverty in 2015, up 7 percentage points from the year before, according to new census estimates from the federal government.
Published Oct. 2017 The Buffalo News
Women’s Economic Security Wrap Around Strategies
Economic Securities Offered by NYS
Published Oct. 2017 Partnership for Womens Prosperity
Small Businesses Face Barriers to Affordable Child Care, Support Expanded Access
Small business owners know how important it is to retain a productive and talented workforce. Lack of access to affordable child care, however, is hurting small businesses and their workforce by increasing absenteeism and decreasing productivity
Published Sep. 2017 Small Business Majority
Small decrease shown for child poverty in Buffalo
New data from the U.S. Census Bureau released Thursday shows that 47.3 percent of children in Buffalo grew up in poverty last year.
Published Sep. 2017 The Buffalo News
EQUAL PAY FOR NATIVE WOMEN
When comparing all men and women who work full time, year round in the United States, women are paid just 80 cents for every dollar paid to men.
Published Sep. 2017 National Women's Law Center
Supporting New York State’s Economic Development Efforts by Expanding Access to Quality Child Care
While many other states—and New York—have directed limited economic development dollars toward child care, there is an opportunity here for New York to become the first in the nation to make investing in quality child care a key economic development strategy.
Published Sep. 2017 SCAA Schuyler Center for analysis and advocacy
Single Mothers in College: Growing Enrollment, Financial Challenges, and the Benefits of Attainment
Data on moms in college by race, unmet financial need, and benefits of their success
Published Sep. 2017 Institute for Women's Policy Research
A Blueprint for Child Care Reform
Making more affordable, accommodating, and accessible child care
Published Sep. 2017 Center for American Progress
The Gender Wage Gap Fact Sheet
Graphs and tables on median incomes by gender, race, year
Published Sep. 2017 Institute for Women's Policy Research
Five Ways to Win an Arguement about the Gender Wage Gap
Facts on the workforce and how women still face discrimination
Published Sep. 2017 Institute for Women's Policy Research
How Women are Still Left Behind in the Labor Market
General statistics of gender wage differences
Published Sep. 2017 Institute for Women's Policy Research
Creating Opportunity: An Action Plan for Early Childhood Education
Plans for a more successful education
Published Sep. 2017 ECE Executive Committee
Celebrate Labor Day by supporting national paid family leave
None of us should have to choose between the job we need and the family we love. That's the concept behind paid family leave.
Published Sep. 2017 The Washington Post
Pathways to High-Quality Child Care: The Workforce Investment Credit
An early childhood workforce investment credit, modeled after the Louisiana school readiness tax credit, rewards professional development for child care providers and can foster the quality early childhood education (ECE) workforce necessary to promote children’s learning and school readiness.
Published Aug. 2017 Committee for Economic Development
Women: Follow The Five C’s To Become Leaders In The Workplace
The number of women leaders and CEOs is growing more and more each year, but it’s not where it needs to be. Still, process leads to progress.
Published Aug. 2017 Forbes
Women in Erie County earn less than men regardless of education
If you're a woman with a college degree in Erie County, chances are you are making a fourth to a third less than a man of the same educational level.
Published Aug. 2017 Buffalo News
The Economic Cost of Intimate Partner Violence
Can increase medical debt, educational attainment, and housing instability
Published Aug. 2017 The Institute for Women's Policy Research
Investing in the next generation
A Bottom-Up Approach to Creating Better Outcomes for Children and Youth
Published Aug. 2017 Brookings Institution
Black and Hispanic Women Lag in Recovering from the Recession
Unemployment among Young Women Before and After the Recession by Age, Race, and Ethnicity
Published Aug. 2017 Institute for Women's Policy Research
Female mayors want to blow up the term ‘women’s issues’
The mayors of Baltimore, Charlotte and Salt Lake City wrestle with some of the most contentious issues dominating national policy conversations, including health care and improving public school systems.
Published Jul. 2017 Politico
Gender Differences in Voter Turnout
In recent elections, voter turnout rates for women have equaled or exceeded voter turnout rates for men. Women, who constitute more than half the population, have cast between four and seven million more votes than men in recent elections
Published Jul. 2017 Center for American Women and Politics
Status and Trends in the Education of Racial and Ethnic Groups 2017
Status and Trends in the Education of Racial and Ethnic Groups examines the educational progress and challenges students face in the United States by race/ethnicity. This report shows that over time, students in the racial/ethnic groups of White, Black, Hispanic, Asian, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, American Indian/Alaska Native, and Two or more races have completed high school and continued their education in college in increasing numbers.
Published Jul. 2017 National Center for Education Statistics Institute
Why women don’t see themselves as entrepreneurs
Silicon Valley is even more of a bubble than the rest of small-business America.
Published Jun. 2017 NY Times
The Status of Black Women in the United States
The report aims to amplify the historical and current contributions of Black domestic workers to the broader domestic worker movement.
Published Jun. 2017 Institute for Women's Policy Research
Girlhood Interrupted: The Erasure of Black Girls’ Childhood
First study focused on “adultification” of black girls shows significant bias toward girls starting at age 5, younger than in previous research on black boys
Published Jun. 2017 Center on Poverty and Inequality - Georgetown Law
Watching Gender How Stereotypes in Movies and TV Impact Kids’ Development
"Our comprehensive research review shows that children who are fed gender stereotypes may internalize those roles, shaping their behavior for years to come and that girls aren’t alone in their struggles with restrictive identity norms."
Published Jun. 2017 Common Sense Media
Third-Grade Proficiency in Erie County
The importance of third-graders performing with grade-level proficiency and the proficiency level of third graders in Erie County.
Published Jun. 2017 United Way of Buffalo and Erie County
Women in State Government: Still Too Few
In recent years the movement of women into state-level offices has slowed after several decades of gains. Efforts to actively recruit women for elective and appointive positions will be critical in determining what the future holds for women in state government.
Published Jun. 2017 The Council on State Governments
The Status of Black Women in the United States
The Status of Black Women in the United States seeks to address the gap in research on Black women’s well-being and to provide data that can inform policy and programmatic changes to benefit Black women and their families.
Published Jun. 2017 Institute for Women's Policy Research
Coupling Child Care With Pathways To Nontraditional, Higher Paying Work
Workforce Training for Low-Income Mothers
Published Jun. 2017 Mississippi Low Income Child Care Initiative
Why women don’t run for office
Studies gender differences between career aspirations and confidence
Published Jun. 2017 Politico
State of Play in WNY
For a complete look at the state of youth sports in our communities.
Published Jun. 2017 United Way of Buffalo and Erie County
Senate Committee on Children & Families Assembly Standing Committee on Children & Families Assembly Legislative Taskforce on Women’s Issues
Hearing to examine barriers to accessing quality child day care and how such lack of access relates to a variety of issues including child development, family stability and the economy.
Published May. 2017 Empire Justice Center
Modern Motherhood Has Economists Worried
A better balance between work and family could boost the world economy.
Published May. 2017 Bloomberg
2016 Annual Report on the State of Homelessness in WNY
The Homeless Alliance of Western New York is the designated Continuum of Care (CoC) agency for Erie County that is responsible for compiling the annual Continuum of Care grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). In 2011 this grant awarded $11.2 million in funding for new and renewal projects to homeless agencies throughout Erie County.
Published May. 2017 Cornell University ILR School
Deeper in Debt: Women and Student Loans
This report looks at how student debt became a women's issue.
Published May. 2017 American Association of University Women
A BLUEPRINT FOR WOMEN’S FUNDS ON USING FINANCE AS A TOOL FOR SOCIAL CHANGE
This is a guide for organizations and individuals actively seeking to create gender equitable social change. In particular, it equips women’s funds to design strategies that use systems of finance and investments as tools to create the social change they seek.
Published Apr. 2017 Criterion Institute
Foundation’s loans give women entrepreneurs a boost
Microloans and a pitch competition launched by the Michigan Women's Foundation over the past few years to support women entrepreneurs are quietly helping to create jobs.
Published Mar. 2017 Crain's Detroit Business
Why the federal government should subsidize childcare and how to pay for it
The present paper provides one solution in the form of childcare and education savings accounts paid for with redirection of current federal spending on early education and care, and through an offset from the federal deduction for charitable contributions.
Published Mar. 2017 Brookings
The Family-Friendly Campus Imperative: Supporting Success Among Community College Students with Children
Ensuring Economic Security and Meeting the Workforce Needs of the Nation
Published Mar. 2017 Institute for Women's Policy Research
What does good child care reform look like?
Gaps in current child care policy and assessing quality and affordability of potential policy initiatives
Published Mar. 2017 Economic Policy Institute
Why governments should introduce gender budgeting
IT IS easy to be cynical about government—and rarely does such cynicism go unrewarded. Take, for instance, policy towards women.
Published Feb. 2017 The Economist
Fortune 500 companies make short strides toward broader diversity: study
HP Inc. and Wells Fargo have the broadest diversity on their boards, according to a new study, even as other Fortune 500 companies have only made small strides toward inclusion.
Published Feb. 2017 bizwomen
Closing the Skills Gap
The “skills gap” in the United States is serious. Here is how to do better.
Published Feb. 2017 McKinsey & Company
CHILD CARE FOR ALL FAMILIES THAT NEED IT
The National Women’s Law Center recommends the following investments in CCDBG and improvements to the CDCTC as an important first step toward providing all families with the assistance they need to afford high-quality child care.
Published Feb. 2017 National Women's Law Center
Supports that Matter in Workforce Development Programs
This report captures participant perspectives on the role of supportive services in facilitating their success in job training, the availability of supportive services, the unmet needs of participants, and the significance of job training for them.
Published Feb. 2017 Institute for Women's Policy Research
Sallie Krawcheck on the untapped power of women in business
Krawcheck is the CEO and co-founder of the women’s digital investment platform Ellevest. She is also the chair of Pax Ellevate Global Women’s Index Fund, which invests in companies that advance women.
Published Jan. 2017 bizwomen
2017 Alzheimer’s disease facts and figures
Demographics of Alzheimer's
Published Jan. 2017 Alzheimer's Association
Births: Final data for 2015
Statistics on birth rates, delivery rates, age of mother, teenage pregnancy, and marital status.
Published Jan. 2017 National Vital Statistics Reports
STEM starts early: Grounding science, technology, engineering, and math education in early education
There is a correlation between early experiences with STEM subjects and later success in these subjects or in school generally.
Published Jan. 2017 The Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop
New York State Profile of Young Children in Deep Poverty
This profile offers information about young children, age birth to nine, living in deep poverty in New York State, and about policies that could support their healthy development and success.
Published Jan. 2017 National Center for Children in Poverty
Women in State Legislators 2017
Data on the percentage of women in state legislatures by state and by party.
Published Jan. 2017 Center for American Women and Politics
The State of Girls 2017: Emerging Truths and Troubling Trends
The State of Girls is a first-of-its-kind research report by the Girl Scout Research Institute that focuses on girls’ health and well-being in the United States. The most recent data from The State of Girls show that economic conditions affecting girls in the United States have not recovered from the Great Recession that began in late 2007. In fact, they have worsened.
Published Jan. 2017 Girl Scouts
Snapshot of Girls’ Well-being in the United States
This snapshot focuses on two time points: before and after the great recession. Overall, more girls are living in poverty and low income households today, compared to before the recession.
Published Jan. 2017 Girl Scouts
The Girls’ Index: New Insights into the lives of today’s girls
THE GIRLS’ INDEX™ is the first-ever, large-scale national survey designed to develop a deeper understanding of the thoughts, experiences, perceptions, beliefs, behaviors and attitudes of teen girls throughout the United States.
Published Jan. 2017 Ruling our experiences
Girls’ Well-Being: New York vs. the United States
This profile summarizes recent trends in the well-being of girls living in New York, compared with girls living in the U.S.
Published Jan. 2017 Girl Scouts
Child Care Brief
A POLICY TO PROVIDE CHILD CARE ACCESS FOR ALL WORKING FAMILIES: EFFECTS ON MOTHERS’ EMPLOYMENT AND CASELOAD
Published Jan. 2017 US Department of Health & Human Services
Representation Matters
A stock of the experiences, perspectives, approaches, and influence of women in a polarized, as well as male-dominated, U.S. Congress.
Published Jan. 2017 Center for American Women and Politics (Rutgers); Eagleton Institute of Politics (Rutgers)
2017 Women SMB Owners Achieving Growth Through Community Focus
Women SMB owners are eager for the future and have a clear sense of purpose, about themselves and their businesses. Monetary gain is important, yet it cannot come at the cost of doing work that lacks meaning.
Published Jan. 2017 The Business Journals
CHARITABLE GIVING & LIFE SATISFACTION: DOES GENDER MATTER?
Women Give 2017 explores the connection between happiness and charitable giving and the role women play in driving philanthropy.
Published Jan. 2017 WOMEN’S PHILANTHROPY INSTITUTE
A Fair Shot for Millennial Women and Families
How millennial women are affected by student debt, race, and other demographics
Published Nov. 2016 Center for American Progress
Financial Hardship in Erie County
Financial hardship is not limited to families living in conditions of poverty or individuals experiencing unemployment. Working families also experience financial hardship.
Published Nov. 2016 United Way of Buffalo and Erie County
Undervalued and Underpaid in America Women in Low-Wage, Female-Dominated Jobs
This report investigates women’s experiences in large, low-wage, growing, female-dominated occupations, comparing demographic data and indicators of economic security between 1994 and 2014, and projecting growth rates to 2024.
Published Nov. 2016 Institute for Women's Policy Research
Social Security Is Important to Women
Social Security is neutral with respect to gender – individuals with identical earnings histories are treated the same in terms of benefits. This Fact Sheet is provided by the Social Security Administration to highlight how women benefit from the Social Security program and how certain demographic characteristics of women compare with the entire population.
Published Nov. 2016 Social Security Adminstration
When A Company Is Failing, Female CEOs Get Blamed More Frequently Than Men
It’s not your imagination or a just a hunch: Female chief executives are treated differently by the media than their male counterparts, a new analysis of press coverage of CEOs confirms.
Published Oct. 2016 Huffington Post
Rhetoric vs. Reality: Child Care
Improving access to high-quality child care is at the forefront of the national policy debate. Legislators, policymakers, and voters are recognizing that the economy depends on working families and that working families depend on high-quality, affordable child care. Republicans and Democrats in Congress have introduced child care legislation, and for the first time ever, both major party presidential candidates have introduced child care proposals.
Published Oct. 2016 Center for American Progress
Obama’s Female Staffers Came Up With a Genius Strategy to Make Sure Their Voices Were Heard
When President Obama first took office, the White House wasn’t exactly the friendliest place for female staffers. Most of Obama’s senior staffers — such as former chief of staff Rahm Emanuel and former economic adviser Lawrence Summers — were men who’d worked on his campaign and subsequently filled his cabinet.
Published Sep. 2016 The Cut
The Big Difference Between Women and Men’s Earnings After College
A college education may be called the great equalizer, but when it comes to the gender wage gap, it still has some ways to go
Published Sep. 2016 Center for American Progress
Women are better than men at paying their mortgages
Women pay more on average for mortgages
Published Sep. 2016 The Urban Institute
Strategies to Meet the Child Care Needs of Low-Income Parents Seeking Education and Training
Nationwide, there are low-income parents who need additional education or training to better support their families. However, they can face daunting challenges to achieving this goal. In addition to challenges common among low-wage workers—low education levels, financial pressures, and limited opportunities—low-income parents struggle with child care needs that limit their ability to participate in and complete education and training.
Published Sep. 2016 Urban Institute
WNY Girls in Sports
The purpose of this report is to explore the following questions: 1. Are girls in Buffalo active and playing sports, and do gender disparities exist? 2. What opportunities exist for girls to play sports in Buffalo? 3. What barriers are most identified as hindering sports participation locally? 4. How have these barriers been overcome for urban girls in other cities?
Published Sep. 2016 United Way of Buffalo and Erie County
Half of America’s childcare workers need food stamps, welfare payments or Medicaid
The people who are paid to watch America’s children tend to live in poverty. Nearly half receive some kind of government assistance: food stamps, welfare money, Medicaid.
Published Jul. 2016 Washington Post
NAWBO Buffalo Niagara Chapter is the fastest growing chapter in the United States, the agenda of growth continues
(Buffalo, New York) Buffalo is yet again emerging as a winner. This time, it is the local chapter of the National Association of the Women Business Owners, NAWBO Buffalo-Niagara, which has become the fastest growing NAWBO chapter in the United States out of 54 national chapters. In the 2015-2016 year, the local organization’s membership base grew 80% from a small to a medium sized chapter, and is now on the course of becoming a 100-member chapter.
Published Jun. 2016 43North
Black Women Now the Most Educated Group in US
A new report confirms that black women are now the most educated group in the United States. But we still have a long way to go for pay equity.
Published Jun. 2016 The Root
Working Mothers Issue Brief
Labor force participation by family type, race, and poverty
Published Jun. 2016 US Department of Labor Women's Bureau
The Complex Data on Girls in STEM
Goals are to increase girls' persistence and resilience in STEM studies to develop their career paths.
Published May. 2016 The Atlantic
Improving the Odds: Seven Principles for Investing in Early Care and Education
Across ideological divides, there is consensus that investing early makes common sense—it is the right thing to do and saves tax dollars down the road. With heightened appreciation and urgency comes increased investment. To enhance the effectiveness of this surge in investment, we’ve written this guide to share lessons from our many years of working in early care and education.
Published May. 2016 FSG
DELIVERING THE POWER OF PARITY: TOWARD A MORE GENDER-EQUAL SOCIETY
In our 2015 report The power of parity: How advancing women’s equality can add $12 trillion to global growth, the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) undertook what we believe may be the most comprehensive attempt to date to estimate the size of the economic potential from achieving gender parity and to map gender inequality. We are building on that work in several ways.
Published May. 2016 Mckinsey & Company
Giving to Women and Girls
This study highlights new data to understanding who gives to women’s and girls’ causes and their motivations for support
Published May. 2016 IUPUI Women's Philanthropy Institute
The power of parity: Advancing women’s equality in the United States
Every state and city in the United States has the opportunity to further gender parity, which could add $4.3 trillion to the country’s economy in 2025.
Published Apr. 2016 McKinsey & Company
Mind the Gap
We have an opportunity to close these gender gaps for all women, one woman at a time, starting with you. And we’re going to give you some deeply practical advice on how to do it.
Published Mar. 2016 Ellevest
Mind the Gap – How Philanthropy Can Address Gender-Based Economic Disparities
Not only is realizing gender equality in our economic, political, and social systems imperative to women’s economic security, it is necessary for those systems to thrive.
Published Mar. 2016 For Women
Older women are being forced out of the workforce
Discrimination in the workplace
Published Mar. 2016 Harvard Business Review
Barriers and Bias
The report examines the causes of women’s underrepresentation in leadership roles in business, politics, and education and suggests what we can do to change the status quo.
Published Mar. 2016 American Association of University Women
Shortchanged in Retirement
The Continuing Challenges to Women’s Financial Future
Published Mar. 2016 National Institute on Retirement Security
Pathways to Equity Narrowing the Wage Gap by Improving Women’s Access to Good Middle-Skill Jobs
This report addresses women’s access to well-paid, growing, middle-skill jobs (jobs that do not require a bachelor’s degree).
Published Mar. 2016 Institute for Women's Policy Research
The Scourge of the Female Chore Burden
All over the world, women are doing work they’re not getting paid for. In rich countries, it might be folding the laundry or staying home to take care of a sick child. In developing countries, unpaid labor tends to be more physically arduous, like hauling water and chopping wood. Wherever you are, it’s considered women’s work.
Published Feb. 2016 The Atlantic
Making the Invisible Visible: A Cross-Sector Analysis of Gender-Based Leadership Barriers
Despite the fact that women are earning more educational de grees than men, they continue to be underrepresented at the top of institutional leadership hierarchies.
Published Feb. 2016 Wiley Online Library
Expanding Learning Through School-Community Partnerships in New York State
This paper is intended to provide a set of recommendations to guide state policymakers and agencies, school districts, schools, and community-based partners in their efforts to support high-quality partnerships for expanded learning.
Published Feb. 2016 NYS Network for Youth Success
The Gender Wage Gap and Public Policy
The basic facts about the gender wage gap, summarizing data on earnings differences between women and men by race and ethnicity, education, and occupation and reasons for the gender wage gap, its consequences for women and their families, and policies that can help to close it.
Published Feb. 2016 Institute for Women's Policy Research
New York State’s Bold Step to Ensure Access to Excellence in Early Childhood Education
QUALITYstarsNY is a voluntary quality improvement and rating system for all types of regulated early childhood programs in New York State that serve children from birth through age five. QUALITYstarsNY uses research-based, culturally responsive program standards developed by New York’s leading early education experts to support programs to provide children with high quality early learning experiences.
Published Feb. 2016 Quality Stars NY
Minority job, wage picture bleak
African-American and Hispanic workers in Erie County are more than twice as likely to be unemployed as white workers and earn more than 25 percent less that white workers in the same industries, a new study has found.
Published Jan. 2016 The Buffalo News
Understanding teen dating violence
Data on dating violence. Dating violence occurs between two people in a close relationship. The nature of dating violence can be physical, emotional, or sexual.
Published Jan. 2016 Centers for Disease Control
EXPOSED: DISCRIMINATION AGAINST BREASTFEEDING WORKERS
Despite the medical consensus that breastfeeding reduces major health risks to both babies and mothers, discrimination against breastfeeding workers often forces them to stop breastfeeding or lose their jobs.
Published Jan. 2016 Pregnant at Work
Supporting Parents Who Work and Go to School
This brief aims to gain a better understanding of the working student-parent population and the supports and interventions that may facilitate educational success.
Published Jan. 2016 Urban Institute
Buffalo has 20th-worst gender gap in America, with men being paid 39% more than women
New statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau show that men still earn more than women in every major metropolitan area across the country, including Buffalo.
Published Dec. 2015 Buffalo Business First
The Equity Imperative in Collective Impact
The collective impact framework can empower people to make a real difference in communities around the world, but the five conditions (a common agenda, shared measurement systems, mutually reinforcing activities, continuous communication, and backbone support organizations) are missing a critical dimension: equity.
Published Oct. 2015 Stanford Social Innovation Review
To Fight Inequality, Support Women’s Work
The dual awareness that women’s work serves as an income equalizer among households and that family-friendly policies, by extension, are essential tools in fighting income inequality has been slow to take root on this side of the Atlantic.
Published Sep. 2015 Center for American Progress
Proposed NYC bill helps parents identify day cares that are unlicensed and lack training
A bill to be introduced this week by Councilmembers Jimmy Vacca (D-Bronx) and Margaret Chin (D-Manhattan) would require the city to publish reports listing the names and addresses of day care centers that have been shut down or given cease and desist orders because they were unlicensed.
Published Sep. 2015 New York Daily News
Poloncarz Appoints Members of Poverty Committee
Today, Erie County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz was joined by staff from various county departments and community members to announce the appointees of the re-established Welfare Advisory Board, which will function as a Poverty Committee to advise Erie County on how to reduce poverty.
Published Sep. 2015 Erie County
The Cost of Doing Nothing
In the following pages, this report documents these impacts in greater detail, showing how they harm America’s workers, families, businesses, and our nation as a whole. By gathering and putting these facts on the table, the Department of Labor seeks to better inform this critical policy conversation.
Published Sep. 2015 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Moms at Work The Working Mother Report
The impact that the intersection of work life has on working mothers, their careers and their families
Published Sep. 2015 Working Mother Research Institute
The Importance of Women of Color Voters: Then and Now
For women and people of color, the power of the vote has been instrumental in helping to expand opportunities in employment, education, and beyond and to level the playing field so that everyone has a chance to succeed.
Published Aug. 2015 The Center for American Progress
Gender pay gap? The retirement gap’s even worse
Try describing the financial gap between men and women, and 78 cents probably comes to mind. That’s what a woman earns for every dollar a man brings home, and it is publicly noted every year on Equal Pay Day. But the gender pay gap pales in comparison to a growing challenge for women: the retirement gender gap.
Published Aug. 2015 Nightly Business Report
PARENTS’ NON-STANDARD WORK SCHEDULES MAKE ADEQUATE CHILDREARING DIFFICULT
This issue brief examines evidence on the prevalence of unpredictable and non-standard work schedules, and on how such schedules impair children’s development. It concludes by proposing policy solutions.
Published Aug. 2015 Economic Policy Institute
Teens, Technology, & Friendships
Video games, social media and mobile phones play an integral role in how teens meet and interact with friends.
Published Aug. 2015 Pew Research Center
Young Black America Part Four: The Wrong Way to Close the Gender Wage Gap
Young blacks in America have had significant improvements in educational attainment since the early 1980s.
Published Aug. 2015 Center for Economic and Policy Research
Teen Girls and Leadership Biases
Teen girls who are the key to closing the gender gap appear to face an age-old and powerful barrier: gender bias, and specifically biases about their leadership.
Published Jul. 2015 Harvard Graduate School of Education
Solving the Equation The Variables for Women’s Success in Engineering and Computing
Advancing girls and women in the STEM field by looking at stereotypes and biases, social relevance, cultivating a sense of belonging and changing the environment.
Published Jul. 2015 American Association of University Women
Young Black America Part Three: Employment, Unemployment, and the Incomplete Recovery
As documented in parts one and two of this series, young blacks are completing high school and college at higher rates than in the past.1 This third installment and subsequent reports will examine whether these increases in educational attainment have led to better labor market outcomes.
Published Jun. 2015 Center for Economic and Policy Research
Poverty Interrupted
Applying Behavioral Science to the Context of Chronic Scarcity
Published May. 2015 Ideas 42
How and Why Women Give
The purpose of this literature review is to summarize the existing academic research on women, gender, and philanthropy and create a comprehensive picture of what we know about women’s giving and gender differences in giving today.
Published May. 2015 IUPUI Women's Philanthropy Institute
The Full Participation Report
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the No Ceilings initiative of the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation joined forces to assess the evidence on the gains and gaps in progress for women and girls over the past 20 years. We asked: What do women’s and girls’ lives look like around the world 20 years after the Beijing conference? What barriers remain? What do the numbers tell us? How have laws and policies progressed over the same period? What information do we still need in order to assess the status of women and girls?
Published Mar. 2015 No Ceilings
Young Black America Part One: High School Completion Rates are at their Highest Ever
This issue brief will focus on the high school status completion rates of blacks ages 20 to 24 since 1975. Future reports will focus on other issues facing young blacks, including college graduation rates, unemployment rates, wages, and poverty rates.
Published Mar. 2015 Center for Economic and Policy Research
Older women workers and economic security
Economic needs and burdens of older women, retirement income influenced by demographics
Published Feb. 2015 US Department of Labor Women's Bureau
Financial Experience And Behaviors Among Women
Different financial goals and attitudes.
Published Jan. 2015 Prudential
New, Uniform Sexual Assault Policy to Protect New York’s College Students
New York State wants students to be able to have sexual assaults investigated and prosecuted.
Published Jan. 2015 New York State
Where will you find your next leader?
Gender equality in sports can be empowering for women and promote leadership.
Published Jan. 2015 EY Women's Athlete Business Network & espnW
FINANCIAL EXPERIENCE & BEHAVIORS AMONG WOMEN
Our eighth biennial study on the Financial Experience & Behaviors Among Women uncovers optimism about recovering markets and encouraging short-term improvements, but troubling long-term trends.
Published Jan. 2015 Prudential
The Status of Women in the States
The Status of Women in New York, 2015: Highlights
Published Jan. 2015 Institute for Women's Policy Research
Perspectives in Philanthropy: The Advancement of Women and Girls
The Advancement of Women and Girls” includes a broad range of articles that highlight the tremendous work both individuals and institutions are engaged in to empower women and girls all over the world.
Published Jan. 2015 Morgan Stanley
Black Girls Matter: Pushed Out, Overpoliced, & Underprotected
The research reflected in this report was designed to elevate the voices of Black girls and other girls of color affected by punitive policies so as to deepen our understanding of the ways they experience inhospitable educational environments and to produce recommendations designed to eliminate those inequities.
Published Jan. 2015 African American Policy Forum
Women as Mentors: Does She or Doesn’t She?
Women can benefit from mentoring— and from being mentors. So why aren’t more women engaging in mentoring relationships?
Published Jan. 2014 Development Dimensions International
Moving Women Forward On the 50th Anniversary of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act
This Report is a three-part series that examines: sexual harassment and violence, discrimination against pregnant workers and working mothers, and the gender wage gap.
Published Jan. 2014 Equal Rights Advocates