The Trump administration’s new “moms.gov” website isn’t actually about helping women and families—it’s about pushing dangerous pronatalist propaganda and misinformation. The website fails to provide meaningful policy solutions, and instead is coercively pro-birth, promotes anti-abortion hate groups, boosts the president’s prescription platform and investment accounts, and pushes harmful pseudo-science. Check out the link in our bio to learn more about REAL policy solutions.
Today’s inflation data release found that prices increased at their highest rate in three years. Obviously this is largely due to impacts of the war in that Middle East on energy prices, but core inflation also increased. This is especially hard on women already managing the long-run rising costs for care.
And shout out to my colleague Aashima for letting me borrow her Bobbi Brown lipstick in Rich Cocoa. #economy #inflation
$1 trillion. That’s the value of all the unpaid care work—overwhelmingly provided by women and mothers—in the US in 2024. And it’s central to the inequities women and mothers face in the labor market.
This work is the invisible infrastructure of our economy. Underinvestment in our care system leaves caregivers, overwhelmingly mothers, to figure out for themselves how to juggle work and families all while the system depends on their unpaid labor to function.
As we fight for policies that would give them the support they need to both provide for their loved ones and ensure their own economic well-being, IWPR honors the caregivers and mothers who provide the care that holds families—and our society—together.
Learn more about our latest research on the unpaid care that makes everything we all do possible at the link in our bio.
Lipstick Econ is back! I found my old Rouge Dior in 999 to discuss this month’s Jobs Report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Topline numbers look good, but things are looking a bit more worrisome around the edges. Black women continue to face worse economic outcomes and this is bad for the entire economy. Stay tuned for more explainers from me!
IWPR’s Dr. Kate Bahn has once again been named one of @washingtonianmag 's 500 most influential people for her expertise on economic policy, including how limited employer competition keeps wages down and exacerbates gender and racial pay gaps.
The Supreme Court has temporarily restored broad access to mifepristone, after a lower court’s recent ruling restricting access to in-person dispensing of the pill used for medication abortion.
The safety of medication abortion isn’t in question. These latest threats to abortion access are about controlling our bodies and our lives.
As the Fifth Circuit’s medically unnecessary ruling moves through the Supreme Court’s emergency docket, IWPR will continue to push back on misinformation and affirm that abortion is health care—and everyone deserves access, no matter where they live.
We arrive at May Day 2026 a nation in distress; holding an acknowledgement of the transformative power of unions and an undeniable recognition that our nation has so far to go in realizing a world in which people and their contributions to society are valued and celebrated.
We know that collective bargaining can mean more pay, less wage theft, access to paid sick days, safeguards against discriminatory practices and so much more.
Women power the workplace, and have driven the movements to harness and advance this collective power. As this administration continues to push policies rolling back protections and erasing women, especially Black, Latina, and other women of color, from the workforce, IWPR is committed to our right not just to survive, but thrive.
To learn more, read our Federal Policy Agenda to Advance Gender Equity brief on Better Workplaces. Link in Bio.
On Friday, IWPR President and CEO Dr. Jamila K. Taylor will join Dr. Ijeoma Kola of @cohortsistas for a fireside chat to close out Cohort Sistas’ 2026 Career Summit.
Dr. Taylor will talk about her career, how she’s navigated various structural barriers, and what it means to fight for racial justice and reproductive and maternal health equity in today’s political climate.
The event will take place over Zoom at 5 p.m. ET, and registration is free! Visit cohortsistas.org/careersummit to register.
If anyone tells you the reason there aren’t more women in the trades or construction industry is because “Women just don’t apply for those jobs” ... show them this.
A pre-apprenticeship program in Massachusetts had a women’s participation rate of 72% during its first four cohorts. 47% were women of color. During the next eight cohorts, women’s participation dropped to 17%.
What happened?
It all comes down to intentional recruitment. For the first four cohorts, program flyers included images of women—and explicitly invited them to apply. Experienced tradeswomen helped with outreach and information sessions. Outreach strategies work. And they’re essential for advancing equity in employment opportunity.
Why does it matter?
Construction trade jobs often pay more than jobs in female-dominated fields. And earn-as-you-learn apprenticeships make those jobs more accessible. The problem? Women are still drastically underrepresented in construction apprenticeships. And they face a huge earnings gap.
The latest IWPR analysis finds that the median hourly wage for men who have completed apprenticeships in FY2026 was nearly $36. For women, it was just $23. While women’s share of construction apprenticeships grew slightly in 2025, they remain a small minority.
Investing in apprenticeship programs is critical for providing women, including women of color, pathways to high-paying careers. And in fields where women are still underrepresented, they need to be explicitly invited to feel included. This week is #NationalApprenticeshipWeek. Read more about our latest at the links in our bio.
Why are Black women in the US dying from pregnancy-related causes at three times the rate of White women? What are the root causes of this crisis, and how will recent actions by the administration and Congress make things worse?
IWPR President and CEO Dr. Jamila K. Taylor joined @zerlinamaxwell , host of “Mornings with Zerlina” on @siriusxmprog , to discuss the #BlackMaternalHealth crisis and how catastrophic cuts to key programs like Medicaid—which covers 40% of all births, and disproportionately covers Black women’s births—are happening against a backdrop of massive job losses that have hit Black women the hardest.
“This shouldn’t be based on politics. ... Everyone in this country should care deeply about the lives of moms and babies and it’s time that we be real about what it takes to address this issue once and for all.”
“The loss of a Black mother doesn’t just break a family’s heart. It breaks its budget—and its future.”
This #BlackMaternalHealthWeek, visit the link in our bio to read Dr. Jamila K. Taylor’s piece in @essence magazine about how the crisis and compounding disadvantages can keep Black families out of economic security—for generations.
🚨 This is an emergency. 🚨
Black women are 3 times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than White women.
It’s #BlackMaternalHealthWeek. Go in-depth and learn more about how we got here, why the numbers aren’t getting better for Black women, and what we can do to change things for them and their families with IWPR’s maternal health research and policy solutions at the link in our bio.
