reviewed here suggests that unions can provide substantial support to women trying to balance their paid work and their unpaid …One of every nine women in the United States (11.8 percent in 2013) is represented by a union at her place of work. The … annual number of hours of paid work performed by women has increased dramatically over the last four decades. In 1979, the …

benefits, we would have expected the share of “good jobs” in the economy to have increased in line with improvements in the …

-wage work is a persistent and recurring state for many workers, then low-wages may contribute to broader income and wealth …

an early stage, which has been opening up slowly but gradually. Telework was recommended and a benefits program for …

a union has on the wages and benefits of women in the paid workforce. Even after controlling for factors such as age … female workers in unions relative to their non-union counterparts. The effect is particularly strong for women with lower …, race, industry, educational attainment and state of residence, the data show a substantial boost in pay and benefits for …

the technological advances embodied in the “new economy” have made unions obsolete. However, if the decline in …

to unions has played, together with relatively weak labor law. In order to fully flesh out the experience of the United …