Since 2006, the World Economic Forum has issued a Global Gender Gap Index to review gender-based disparities around the world and track progress in closing the gap in four areas: educational attainment, health, economic participation, and political empowerment.
Project: KIDS COUNT
(2008) National trends in child well-being have improved slightly since 2000, according to the 2008 KIDS COUNT Data Book.
Project: PACE: Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health
A new Youth Leaders module in the Policy Communication Toolkit provides youth-led and youth-serving advocacy and accountability organizations a curriculum that meaningfully engages youth to develop their policy communication knowledge and skills.
(2010) By 2008, Haiti's largest microfinance organization, Fonkoze, was providing savings accounts or loans to 190,000 clients, mostly women, at its 39 banking offices in rural areas.
Project: American Community Survey and Decennial Census Support Services
(2020) The U.S. population is undergoing rapid racial and ethnic change, led by growth of the Hispanic/Latino and Asian American populations. For policymakers and others, keeping track of these changes is important because some racial and ethnic groups are faring worse than others.
Project: Working Poor Families Project
(2013) Economic security is out of reach for a growing number of working families in the United States, according to a new analysis of 2011 data from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey. The number of low-income working families rose from 10.2 million in 2010 to 10.4 million in 2011, representing nearly one-third of all working families.
(2008) Immigration and higher fertility among minorities have put the United States on a path to become "majority-minority," when less than 50 percent of the population will be non-Hispanic white.
(2012) Men and women experience migration differently. The pressures to migrate, destination choices, employment prospects, and implications for social relations back home all vary by gender.