(2004) Women's increased participation in paid work is a central change in gender relations over the last 50 years. The question is no longer whether the average woman will work or not, but rather when during her life course she will work. Most women now work—women at all education levels, of each racial and ethnic group, and across successive family statuses.
Project: PACE: Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health
This web feature expands the concept of the demographic dividend to project four potential sets of benefits—in addition to economic growth, it outlines benefits in child survival, education, and political stability. A country’s likelihood of making substantial gains in each of these four sectors is tied to its age structure.
Project: Strengthening Evidence-Based Policy to Expand Access to Safe Abortion (SAFE ENGAGE)
Contribution tracing demonstrates PRB’s role in policy dialogue.
(October 2009) Social and intimate connections change with age. These changes affect and are affected by health.
Naming the vulnerability and discrimination LGBTQ youth face can be a starting point for adults and institutions that support youth—and youth themselves—to act for change.
(2001) The United States is in the midst of a profound demographic change: the rapid aging of its population. The 2000 Census counted nearly 35 million people in the United States 65 years of age or older, about one of every eight Americans.
(2014) Worldwide, childbearing decisions may be more of a group effort than we realized.
