Women in Poverty

Women in America: Indicators of Social and Economic Well-Being

Office of Management and Budget, Department of Commerce Economics and Statistics Administration, March 2011

Families Can’t Afford the Gender Wage Gap

Heather Boushey, Jessica Aarons, Lauren Smith, Center for American Progress, April 2010

The Economic Security of Unmarried Women

Liz Weiss, Page Gardner, Center for American Progress, March 2010

Women and Men’s Employment and Unemployment in the Great Recession (PDF)

Heidi Hartmann, Ashley English, Jeffrey Hayes, Institute for Women’s Policy Research, February 2010

State Child Care Assistance Policies 2009

Karen Schulman and Helen Blank, National Women’s Law Center, September 2009

Meager and Diminishing Welfare Benefits Perpetuate Widespread Material Hardship for Poor Women and Children

Legal Momentum, July 2009

Single Mothers and Poverty: Agenda for Action (PDF)

Montgomery County Commission for Women, June 2009

Fact Sheet: Women and Entitlements (PDF)

Heidi Hartmann, Institute for Women’s Policy Research, February 2009

Reading Between the Lines: Women’s Poverty in the United States (PDF)

The Women’s Legal Defense and Education Fund, 2008

Young Men Are Still Economically Better Off Than Young Women

Timothy Casey, Legal Momentum, June 2008

The Straight Facts on Women in Poverty

Alexandra Cawthorne, Center for American Progress, October 2008

Women at Greater Risk of Economic Insecurity: A Gender Analysis of the Rockefeller Foundation’s American Worker Survey (PDF)

Vicky Lovell, Heidi Hartmann and Claudia Williams, Institute for Women’s Policy Research, May 2008

Why Americans Worry About Retirement Security, and Why Women Worry More Than Men (PDF)

Vicky Lovell, Heidi Hartmann and Claudia Williams, Institute for Women’s Policy Research, May 2008

From Work to Retirement: Tracking Changes in Women’s Poverty Status

Sunhwa Lee and Lois Shaw, AARP Public Policy Institute, February 2008

Building Economic Security and Sustainability for Women and Their Families: A Roadmap for Grantmaking by Women’s Funds (PDF)

Women’s Funding Network, September 2006

Population Bulletin: The American Community Survey

US Census Bureau, 2005