Articles and reports reflecting the current state of women & girls:
Southern Regional Educational Board 2010 Report in the "Challenge to Lead Series"
PDF Document, 28 Pages
State Profiles of Child Well-Being
PDF Documents
Inclusiveness: Considerations and solutions for meaningful & sincere outreach. September/October 2009
PDF Document, 2 Pages
Report by Women's Economic Security Campaign
PDF Document, 22 Pages
Report examining the role of women in Arkansas and finding ways by which women might become fuller participants in our State's economic, political and social institutions.
PDF Document, 27 Pages
Act 722 of 2009 Final Report (November 2010)
PDF Document, 49 Pages
"In the state of Arkansas a private non-profit corporation [the Arkansas Single Parent Scholarship Fund] was created in 1990 to deal with the severe impoverishment of single parent families in the state."
"...a comprehensive look at wealth, poverty and the financial security of families in the United States. The Scorecard assesses the 50 states and the District of Columbia on how well residents are faring and what states can do to help residents build and protect assets."
"Are we there yet? Much of the general public believes that women’s fight for parity in the workplace has already been won. After all, women are solidly entrenched in the workforce. Today, women receive the majority of all college degrees and are well represented in entry- and mid-level positions in most sectors of the economy. But equality still remains out of reach." Report by The White House Project
PDF Document, 133 Pages
A college degree pays off - but by just how much? This report by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce examines just what a college degree is worth - and what else besides a degree might influence an individual's potential earnings...
PDF Document, 36 Pages
After last October's 25th-anniversary celebration luncheon, the mantra of the Dallas Women's Foundation became where do we go from here? The group announced at that event that its five-year campaign to raise $30 million had gone over the top to the tune of $34 million...
PDF Document, 1 Page
"Building on its previous work examining education and the economy, the Alliance for Excellent Education (the Alliance), with generous support from State Farm®, analyzed the economies of all fifty states and the District of Columbia to determine the economic benefits that states could see by improving high school graduation rates."
PDF Document, 2 Pages
Statistical report covering staff & student gender, ethnicity, disability and age for the 2008/09 academic year in the UK higher education sector.
PDF Document, 174 Pages
Current Population Reports on Consumer Income from the U.S> Census Bureau
PDF Document, 88 Pages
"Social Security provides a critical income source for women. Women receive benefits both as workers and as spouses or survivors of workers..."
PDF Document, 5 Pages
Institute for Women's Policy Research: The Status of Women in Arkansas, 2004: Highlights (Also 2002, 2000)
"Women in Arkansas and the nation would benefit t from stronger enforcement of equal opportunity laws, better political representation, adequate and affordable child care, and other policies that would help improve their status."
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Examining Racial and Ethnic Disparities at the State Level
PDF Document, 112 Pages
"The business of empowering women presents a case for why and how the private sector should intensify its engagement in the economic empowerment of women in developing countries and emerging markets."
PDF Document, 27 Pages
Increasing the Competitiveness of the Arkansas Workforce for a Knowledge-Based Economy: How Do Current Higher Education Policies Help or Get in the Way? Report by National Center for Higher Education Management Systems
PDF Document, 24 Pages
Recommendations for Federal Action to Provide All Students A Fair and Substantive Opportunity to Learn
PDF Document; 16 Page
"Today, too many women in Arkansas depend on a health care system that is failing them. They have trouble affording necessary care, face unfair insurance industry practices, or struggle to find insurance that covers the benefits they need. Health reform must ensure that all women in Arkansas and across the nation have access to the comprehensive, high-quality, and affordable health care they need."
PDF Document, 3 Pages
One Degree of Separation: How Young Americans Who Don't Finish College See Their Chances for Success
In high school, the vast majority of young Americans say they want to go to college, but in the end, only 4 in 10 earn a credential by the time they are 35. That’s a problem for the young people themselves—workers without credentials beyond high school earn less and are more likely to be unemployed. It’s also a problem for the country as a whole...
PDF Document, 49 Pgs
"Globally, one-quarter to one-third of all families are headed by single mothers, calling into question the normativeness of couple headed families. Developed countries, in particular, are experiencing an increase in single-parent families as divorce becomes more common."
Webarticle, PDF Document
PDF Document, 40 Pages
"Women comprise more than 20% of engineering school graduates, but only 11% of practicing engineers are women, despite decades of academic, federal, and employer interventions to address this gender gap. Project on Women Engineers’ Retention (POWER) was designed to understand factors related to women engineers’ career decisions."
PDF Document, 64 Pages
Women's funds offer a unique model for philanthropy that creates deep-rooted, systematic change through the empowerment of women and girls. The 12 women's funds included in this report work to address the critical issues affecting women in the southern United States...
PDF Document, 16 Pages
In an era when women are increasingly prominent in medicine, law and business, why are there so few women scientists and engineers? A new research report by AAUW presents compelling evidence that can help to explain this puzzle.
PDF Document, 134 Pages
Men and women give differently. They have different motivations for giving and different approaches to giving. The Women’s Philanthropy Institute believes that understanding these differences will help people recognize the significant impact of gender on philanthropy.
PDF Document, 16 Pages
Prepared by U. S. Department of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration, and Executive Office of the President Office of Management and Budget in cooperation with Bureau of Justice Statistics, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Census Bureau, National Center for Education Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics for White House Council on Women and Girls
PDF Document, 97 Pages
Addendum to special report, “Unlocking the full potential of women in the US economy” (April 2011)
PDF Document, 12 Pages
The past several decades have been marked by notable changes in women’s labor force activities. Women’s labor force participation is significantly higher today than it was in the 1970s, particularly among women with children, and a larger share of women work full time and year round than in past decades.
PDF Document, 101 Pages
Science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) workforce is crucial to America's innovative capacity and global competitiveness. Yet women are vastly underrepresented in STEM jobs and among STEM degree holders despite making up nearly half of all the US workforce and half of the college-educated workforce...
PDF Document, 11 Pages
"This narrative shares the stories of the women founders of giving circles. The majority of the first giving circles were created by women for women members. Though giving circles are now popular among both genders, women have contributed more significantly to the inception and the growth of the giving circle movement."
PDF Document, 42 Pages
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