Since its establishment in 1993, CWW has produced innovative scholarship on a myriad of diverse topics. This diversity is reflected in the themes of some of our most recent publications:
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Working Papers Series
- Wage Theft In the United States: A Critical Review
- Informal Employment and the Earnings of Home-Based Home Care Workers
- Gender and Educational Variations in Earnings Premiums of Occupational Credentials
- Domestic Worker Inequities and Rights: A Mixed-Methods Analysis
Reports
Earned Sick Days
- Earned Sick Days in Jersey City: A Study of Employers and Employees at Year One
- A Health Impact Assessment of Paid Sick Days
Education
- Adult College Completion through the Workforce Development System
- Removing Barriers to Degree-Completion and Economic Advancement in New Jersey
- Paying for College: Availability of Need-based Financial Aid for New Jersey’s Working Adults
Family Leave
- New Jersey’s Family Leave Insurance Program at Age Three
- Public Policy, Paid Leave for New Parents, and Economic Security for U.S. Workers
- The Positive Economic Impacts for Paid Family Leave for Families, Businesses and the Public
- Employer and Worker Experiences with Paid Leave in California
- Achieving a Workable Balance
Unionization
Women and the Workplace
- Domestic Workers in New Jersey
- Women in Financial Services
- Controlled Chaos: The Experiences of Women Warehouse Workers in NJ
- Why New Jersey Women Lawyers Leave Their Law Firms, and Why They Choose to Stay
Women in STEM
- Women in Technology
- “I Don’t Know Why They Make It So Hard Here”: Institutional Factors and Undergraduate Women’s STEM Participation
- Taking Initiative: Re-Tooling for an Economy that Can Handle Curves
- Green Now! Women Leading the Way in Science and Technology
- New Jersey’s Women in Science and Technology
Working Families
- Always “On Duty”: Women's Schedules in New Jersey’sRetail, Food Service, and Logistics Industries
- Climbing the Ladder: How to Invest in New Jersey’s Working Families
Issue Briefs
Earned Sick Days
Education & Training
- New Jersey High School Equivalency Test: More Test Options, Less Opportunity
- Home Care Attendant Training and Quality of Care from the Perspectives of Home Care Consumers
- A Survey of Contracted Food Service Work in New Jersey’s K-12 Public Schools
Family Leave
- Awareness of New Jersey’s Family Leave Insurance Program Is Low, Even as Public Support Remains High and Need Persists
- Economics and Politics of Work-Family Policy: The Case for a State Family Leave Insurance Program
Women's Health & Work
Fact Sheets
Care Work
Cliff Effect
Education
- Fast Facts on Equity in Career and Technical Education (CTE)
- Fast Facts on Equity in Nontraditional CTE
- Fast Facts on Race & Ethnicity in CTE
Family Leave
Minimum Wage
- Fact Sheet: A Higher Minimum Wage Would Benefit Working Women, Their Families, and All New Jerseyans
Infographics
- Myth Versus Fact About the Gender Pay Gap
- Mothers & Fathers in the Workforce
- Where are the Women: High Paying Industries & Women
- New Jersey: Women Make 80% of Men's Earning in the Garden State
- New York: The State of Women in the Empire State
- Pennsylvania: Lowest District vs Highest District
Newsletters
- July 2020 - How we care
- March 2020 - Shining a light on inequality
- December 2019 - CWW home and abroad
- October 2019 - Branching Out
- June 2019 - Leveling Up
- March 2019 - Happy International Women's Day
- November 2018 - It's hard to say goodbye...
- August 2018 - Happy Women's Equality Day
- May 2018 - See How CWW is Working for Women!
- February 2018 - The Year of the Woman
More Information
For further information, please contact our Research Director, Elaine Zundl, at ezundl@smlr.rutgers.edu.