Paternity leave isn’t closing the gender pay gap

Ten fathers took extended leave to care for their babies – how their family life changed

Fathers became more involved in the often invisible domestic work needed to keep family life running smoothly.

Black Women and the Care Agenda | National Partnership for Women & Families

Black women are family caregivers – and they need flexibility and economic supports to make the best decisions for themselves and their families

If You Want to Raise Birthrates, You Need to Fix Men

New evidence that patriarchy plus economic growth leads to declining birthrates

Global Gender Gap Report 2026

For the past two decades, the Global Gender Gap Index has benchmarked progress towards gender parity across four dimensions: Economic Participation and Opportunity, Educational Attainment, Health and Survival, and Political Empowerment. The index continues to offer a consistent measure of the present state of gender parity, as well as the long-term evolution of global efforts to close the gender gap.

These Adult Sites Are the Latest to Close Down Because of Big Banks

Queer and trans sex workers are losing yet another way to get paid.

Gender Gap

Progress in closing the gender gap in mobile internet adoption across low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) has stalled. While more women are using mobile internet than ever before, their rate of adoption has slowed in the past year and women are now 14% less likely than men to use it. This equates to 235 million […]

Sex Workers Say They’re Being Silenced by the Government on Age Verification Plans

“There is a difference between consultation and actually being listened to.”

Most Community Health Centers Provide Prenatal Care, But One-Third Still Lack Services | HPHCI: Department of Population Medicine

Boston, MA—A new national study provides the first comprehensive look at prenatal care services offered by federally qualified health centers (FQHCs), revealing that while these safety-net providers play a critical role in caring for low-income and racially diverse pregnant populations, significant gaps in access remain.

Opinion: A gender gap is emerging in AI adoption, and women risk being left behind

Women appear less inclined to use AI tools, producing a disadvantage they can ill afford

Provision of Onsite Prenatal Care Services at U.S. Federally Qualified Health Centers

The 'AI gender gap' narrative is missing the full picture | Fortune

New research shows women leaders are shaping AI strategy, ethics, and oversight—even as concerns about adoption gaps persist.

Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism

An investigation of the roots of the alliance between free-market neoliberals and social conservatives.Why was the discourse of family values so pivotal to the conservative and free-market revolution of the 1980s and why has it continued to exert such a profound influence on American political life? Why have free-market neoliberals so often made common cause with social conservatives on the question of family, despite their differences on all other issues? In this book, Melinda Cooper challenges the idea that neoliberalism privileges atomized individualism over familial solidarities, and contractual freedom over inherited status. Delving into the history of the American poor laws, she shows how the liberal ethos of personal responsibility was always undergirded by a wider imperative of family responsibility and how this investment in kinship obligations is recurrently facilitated the working relationship between free-market liberals and social conservatives. Neoliberalism, she argues, must be understood as an effort to revive and extend the poor law tradition in the contemporary idiom of household debt. As neoliberal policymakers imposed cuts to health, education, and welfare budgets, they simultaneously identified the family as a wholesale alternative to the twentieth-century welfare state. And as the responsibility for deficit spending shifted from the state to the household, the private debt obligations of family were defined as foundational to socioeconomic order. Despite their differences, neoliberals and social conservatives were in agreement that the bonds of family needed to be encouraged—and at the limit enforced—as a necessary counterpart to market freedom. In a series of case studies ranging from Bill Clinton's welfare reform to the AIDS epidemic and from same-sex marriage to the student loan crisis, Cooper explores the key policy contributions made by neoliberal economists and legal theorists. Only by restoring the question of family to its central place in the neoliberal project, she argues, can we make sense of the defining political alliance of our times, that between free-market economics and social conservatism.

Don't Let Women Get Left Behind: Why the Future of AI Upskilling Must Be Inclusive

Women still lag in AI adoption at work. The risk is we'll leave talented women behind and hurt business performance. Tips to close the gap.

Sex workers are the unlikely beneficiaries of Twitter Blue

“Twitter is the biggest adult-friendly platform out there.”

Experiences of Direct Care Workers and Family Caregivers of Home- and Community-Based Services (HCBS) | KFF

This issue brief presents findings from the focus groups including caregiver characteristics; physical, emotional, and mental caregiving demands of caregiving; their wages, finances, and opportunities for advancement; and what caregivers would like policymakers to know about their work.