The labor market has largely recovered since COVID-19 hit, but some disparities between men and women still remain. The labor force participation rate for women in their prime working years (ages ...

The city’s Municipal Labor Committee voted overwhelmingly today to approve a package of health care changes proposed by Mayor Bill de Blasio, a decision that paves the way for more than 150 unions to ...

Five years of panel data from a national sample of women aged 14 to 24 are used to examine patterns of female labor-force participation surrounding the birth of the first child. It is argued that ...

At exactly 2:02 o’clock one afternoon last week—less than ten hours before the deadline—word reached the steelworkers’ Pittsburgh headquarters: Big Steel had capitulated. The creeping threat of a ...

Now that it is the season of Lent, it is apropos for us all, especially those in power, to reflect deeply on our acts and omissions. By our human frailties, we might have imprudently made use of our ...

Researchers have designed a new version of a labor-tracking tool for pregnant women that they predict could reduce the use of hormonal intervention during labor and lower the number of cesarean ...