Women’s Economic Opportunity
Ann F. Kaplan Women’s Initiative
We develop policy and research to improve women’s economic participation and promote growth, including by strengthening care infrastructure, eliminating the gender wage and wealth gap, and promoting women’s access to jobs in the industries of the future.
Supporting Working Families
Cohosted by the Institute of Global Politics’ American Democracy Initiative and Ann F. Kaplan Women’s Initiative, the cross-sector panel explored how policies that support families and workers can also strengthen democratic institutions and restore public trust.
Sweeping federal budget cuts to Medicaid, SNAP, and other pivotal programs are putting pressure on already-strained city budgets.
IGP Women’s Initiative Director Jennifer Klein spoke on a panel titled “Charting a New Course for Care Policy,” about the policy solutions needed to address the caregiving crisis in the United States.
IGP hosted a Rapid Response webinar with a panel of faculty and practitioners debating the impact of the proposed tax and spending cuts in the federal budget bill.
Waldfogel presents a case for reimagining how the United States supports families with children.
On February 26, the Institute of Global Politics (IGP) Women’s Initiative, in partnership with Moms First and McKinsey & Company, hosted a convening on the future of paid leave featuring leading voices across the fields of government, research, policy, tech, and academia.
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA), co-chairs of the bipartisan, bicameral Paid Family Leave Working Group, and professors Jane Waldfogel and Sandra Black, discuss recent bicameral and bipartisan progress on national paid leave policies and the work remaining for the 118th Congress and beyond.
Panelists addressed questions of affordability and access for parents, and job quality and economic security for child care workers.