Recession

Clarion-Ledger: Women in Construction -- funded in part by Women's Fund of Mississippi -- is helping to build economic security for families in Mississippi.

The Washington Post: While women have made huge strides in other traditionally male-dominated jobs, construction work is still, oddly, manville.

RH Reality Check: Stories about how the tanking of the economy has affected those who were already poor in the “best of times” have been few and far between.

Philanthropy Journal: In response to the recession, Washington Area Women's Foundation broadened the focus of its Open Door Fund to provide funding for current and former grantees to focus on organizational sustainability.

Pittsburgh Business Times: The Women and Girls Foundation of Southwest Pennsylvania and the Institute for Women’s Policy Research released a report that families headed by women have been hard hit by the recession and unemployment.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: A new report by the Institute of Women's Policy Research and the Women and Girls Foundation of Southwest Pennsylvania examines the recession's effect on female heads of households.

The Seattle Times, Opinion: Here in our own community, women's poverty rates and barriers to economic stability are at an unprecedented level. Now is the time to realize that investments in women pay high dividends to all of us.