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NEW! VAWA Reauthorization Fact Sheet
NEW! Safeguards in VAWA
NEW! Domestic and Sexual Violence Fact Sheet
NEW! Key Congressional Requests
How President Obama’s Proposed “American Jobs Act” could Impact Women.
Female and Male Job Recovery Post-Recession 2011 Analyses Conducted by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research.
Recommendations for Improving Women’s Employment in the Recovery by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research.
Why Child Care Subsidies are Critical to Economic Recovery, a policy brief by Public Citizens for Children and Youth.
“Lifting As We Climb: An Analysis of the Wealth Gap for African American Women” – Spring 2010.
Report from WGF and IWRP The Female Face of Poverty and Economic Insecurity: The Impact of the Recession on Women in Pennsylvania and Pittsburgh MSA, February 2010. Click here to see webcast of the event.
WGF Board of Directors Bernadette Smith, of Fifth Third Private Bank, discusses the current economic downturn in “Talking Stock” (Pittsburgh Quarterly, Summer 2009).
Summary of President Obama’s FY2010 Budget highlighting programs important to women and their families. Women’s Policy Inc., 2009
Women in Pennsylvania Elected Office Fact Sheet 2009
The Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) released a study on Women and the Economic Downturn in June 2008, presenting a national perspective that is relevant even locally.
A 2008 study entitled Women at Greater Risk for Economic Insecurity from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) suggests several reasons why a gender lens is important.
Report on Status of Women in Westmoreland County, released December 2008
The Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) 2008 fact sheet Some Small and Medium-Size Establishments Join Large Ones in Offering Paid Sick Days presenting findings on offering paid sick days, vacation, personal leave, paid family leave, and unpaid family leave
The Bottom Line: Connecting Corporate Diversity to Corporate Performance by Catalyst
The business case for appointing more women to boards By Carol Stephenson
Equal Pay PA Fact Sheet by the AFL-CIO
Highlights of 2004 Women’s Benchmarking Study by University of Pittsburgh UCSUR
PA Women Owned Businesses Fact Sheet by Center for Women’s Business Research
Pittsburgh Women Owned Businesses Fact Sheet by Center for Women’s Business Research
Primetime Misogyny 2007 Media Survey, Executive Summary and Report of Findings, by Mimi Yahn and the Thomas Merton Center
United Way Allegheny County Non-Profit Wage & Benefit Survey
2005 Status of Women in SWPA Report, produced by WGF and The Regional Women’s Initiative at Chatham College
2005 Diversity Study of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County Boards, Authorities, and Commissions. Produced by Carnegie Mellon University’s H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management. Commissioned by WGF.

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