Shriver Report
Women in Poverty: An American Crisis
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Reuters A Female Senator Explains Why Uptalk Is Part of Women's 'Nature'
Yet Kirsten Gillibrand says women also need to learn that it's okay to be aggressive.
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Reuters Nancy Pelosi: Money in Politics Keeps Women Out of Office
The amount spent on negative political ads particularly hurts, she says.
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Reuters Wealthy Women Can Afford to Reject Marriage, but Poor Women Can't
Higher-income "single ladies" often push back against "patriarchy." But the statistics don't lie: Low-income, unmarried women face significant economic challenges when they stay single.
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Barbara Ries Watch the Shriver Report on Women and Poverty
An Atlantic summit featuring Nancy Pelosi, Kirsten Gillibrand, Maria Shriver, and more.
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Jan Sonnenmair The Plight of Single Moms—and the Policies That Would Help
Low-income women and single mothers are more likely to live with financial stress and regret, but they're also more optimistic about their prospects.
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Barbara Reis It Is Expensive to Be Poor
Minimum-wage jobs are physically demanding, have unpredictable schedules, and pay so meagerly that workers can’t save up enough to move on.
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Barbara Kinney Why American Women Aren't Living as Long as They Should
New research shows that life expectancies for women in other first-world countries are rising faster than those of U.S. women. And the lives of poor women are even shorter.
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Barbara Ries The U.S. Economy Does Not Value Caregivers
Providers of physical and spiritual care are just as indispensable to our society as providers of income. So why don't we treat them that way?
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Barbara Kinney The Female Face of Poverty
Fifty years after the War on Poverty began, millions of women are still struggling to get by.
