(2015) In the United States, full-time working women earn less than men, on average—even in female-dominated occupations (those in which women comprise 70 percent or more of workers), such as nurse practitioners, office clerks, and flight attendants.
Project: IDEA: Informing Decisionmakers to Act
This ENGAGE presentation designed for improving access to health services (especially family planning and reproductive health), while also helping households improve livelihoods, manage natural resources, and conserve the critical ecosystems on which they depend.
Budget experts, parliamentarians, and key stakeholders gathered to discuss Demographic Dividend Sensentive Budgeting (DDSB)
Project: Demography and Economics of Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease
Researchers discussed how social media and new technologies may enhance—or limit—social connectedness and emotional well-being among older adults.
Since 2006, the World Economic Forum has issued a Global Gender Gap Index to review gender-based disparities around the world and track progress in closing the gap in four areas: educational attainment, health, economic participation, and political empowerment.
Naming the vulnerability and discrimination LGBTQ youth face can be a starting point for adults and institutions that support youth—and youth themselves—to act for change.
Are data users aware of all the resources offered by the American Community Survey? We went on the road in Texas to find out.