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Title: Recovery for All? A Snapshot of Women's Economic Status in New England

Citation Type: Conference Paper

Publication Year: 2016

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Abstract: The words Great Recession are no longer daily headline news. While the Great Recession officially began in December 2007, housing prices began to decline in 2006. Since then, media attention increasingly focused on the burst of the housing bubble, families facing foreclosure, rising unemployment, and a decline in the stock market decimating family savings. Job growth was limited and poverty was on the rise, especially among families from minority groups. In 2010 we began to hear about the recovery from the Great Recession, as if the country had suffered through a bad case of the flu and now was back to good health. But how significant has the recovery been? Who has truly recovered? This report asks those questions and puts a spotlight on the issue of whether and how much women have recovered in New England. Much of the research on the differential impact of the Great Recession has focused on the poor, the jobless, and the job seekers who have given up looking. Research on the recovery also documents the rebound of large financial institutions and the ability of stock market investors to make gains again. But what has happened to working women in general, and minority women in particular?

Url: http://scholarworks.umb.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1030&context=cwppp_pubs

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Authors: Bookman, Ann; Kelleher, Christa; Smith, Kristin

Conference Name: New England Women's Policy Conference

Publisher Location: Boston, MA

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Gender, Labor Force and Occupational Structure

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