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:
Check out our recent report that captures how women working in retail, food service, and logistics experience unpredictable schedule and our new issue brief that outlines the economic and health impacts of sexual harassment.
Working Papers Series
- 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
- 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
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
- 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@work.rutgers.edu.