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Jul 6, 2023 · In September 2022, the RAND Corporation found that roughly 40 percent of women on active duty have either severely restricted access or no access at all to abortion care—based on the state in which they are stationed—as a result of the Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson in June 2022. The Dobbs decision removed the constitutional ...
- Women Can't Build Secure Futures Without Financial Literacy
Women receive far less income from private pensions than...
- Women Can't Build Secure Futures Without Financial Literacy
- Organizational Culture and Inconsistent Standards
- Family Planning
- Childcare
- Continuing Challenges and Recommendations
In 2019, RAND published a study on why women separated from the Coast Guard, and the GAO issued a similar study for all the Armed Forces.13 Both studies concluded that shortcomings in organizational culture (for example, sexism, flawed fitness testing) proved a significant factor that led women to separate from the military.14 Women leaving the Coa...
Family planning among military personnel quickly becomes a readiness issue due to deployment cycles and frequent moves and changes in duty station. Recent studies have focused on the varying degrees to which Active-duty members are affected by infertility, particularly women, due to stressful and dangerous situations experienced during military ser...
A major barrier to the retention of women is insufficient access to affordable and accessible childcare. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of childcare centers and childcare availability across the United States was steadily declining due to an aging workforce and few incentives to enter the career field.42 Across the United States, 39 ...
Joint force readiness requires deliberate efforts to address personnel needs. The U.S. military must proactively address the distinct needs of women to improve retention and ensure the joint force is able to draw from all segments of the society it serves, in line with DOD diversity and inclusion strategic plans.57 Policymakers must realize that ge...
Photo by Austin Jean/U.S. Navy. Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) is a global framework that recognizes the key role women play in peace and security decisions and processes. Women's participation is not simply a matter of equity; evidence indicates that the inclusion of women across peace and security decisionmaking leads to better outcomes for ...
Jun 27, 2024 · Women receive far less income from private pensions than their male peers, with the gender gap in private pensions estimated to be 35 percent in Great Britain. An important but under-explored cause of the gender wealth gap is financial literacy, one of the issues explored in RAND Europe's study on financial independence and gender equality.
of the strike led women to take on roles usually associated with men, but that when the struggle developed into its military phase, women were removed from the centre-stage to the wings of the drama. The article also reflects upon how a focus on women transforms our view of the Rand Revolt, and it considers the relationship of class to gender at an
Dec 2, 2022 · Funding for the women's panel convening and findings provided by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Cite this article as: Schubert KG, Bird CE, Kozhimmanil K, Wood SF (2022) To address women's health inequity, it must first be measured , Health Equity 6:1, 881–886, DOI: 10.1089/heq.2022.0107. This research article uses the term “men” and ...
Oct 6, 2021 · A new global analysis of progress on gender equality and women’s rights shows women and girls remain disproportionately affected by the socioeconomic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, struggling with disproportionately high job and livelihood losses, education disruptions and increased burdens of unpaid care work. Women’s health services, poorly funded even before the pandemic, faced ...
