Publications

The GEPI Data Dashboard

The GEPI Data Dashboard is a free interactive resource providing visualizations and downloadable data tables on the socioeconomic conditions of Americans

Care Work and the Free-Time Gender Gap in California

Women shoulder more unpaid childcare and household labor, leaving them with fewer opportunities and less free time

High Home Energy Costs Hit Women Hardest

Data Brief: California women are significantly more likely than men to be spending an unaffordable share of income on home energy

A Gender Equality Perspective on California’s Housing Crisis

Women remain consistently more likely than men to live in unaffordable homes

Roadmap for an Equitable Future: Placing a Gender Lens on American Public Policy

A New Approach for Accelerating Women's Equality in the United States

Maternal Mortality in the United States After Abortion Bans

Mothers Living in Abortion Ban States at Significantly Higher Risk of Death During Pregnancy and Childbirth

The Free-Time Gender Gap

How Unpaid Care and Household Labor Reinforces Women’s Inequality
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Preparing for An Uncertain Future in Post-Dobbs America

A Landscape Analysis of Abortion Care in the San Francisco Bay Area

The Origins of California’s Housing Crisis​

Fifty Years of Rising Housing Costs and the Unequal Impacts on Californians

Data Brief: Women and Housing in California, 2024

The high cost of rental housing in California falls heaviest on women, especially Black women, single mothers, and older women living alone. 

The Promise of Gender Inclusive Climate Action

An Introduction to the Gendered Impacts of Climate Change and Recommendations For Action in California

The State of Reproductive Health in California

An analysis of key indicators on reproductive and sexual health in California, 2015-2021

Double Disadvantage: Undocumented Women in the U.S.

An Analysis of Undocumented Women in the U.S. and the four states with the highest numbers of undocumented immigrants: California, Texas, Florida, and New York.

The State of Reproductive Health in the United States

The End of Roe and the Perilous Road Ahead for Women in the Dobbs Era
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California’s Oil and Gas Workers

An analysis of the fossil fuel workforce, occupational transition opportunities, and State support for potentially impacted workers
A Foundation for Equity

A Foundation for Equity

Evaluating A Regional Approach to the Los Angeles County Housing Crisis

Justice 40: Advancing Equity Through Infrastructure Investment

A Race and Gender Impact Analysis of California’s Justice 40 Initiative

Gender & Housing in California

An Analysis of the Gender Impacts of California's Housing Affordability Crisis

Undocumented & Essential in California

A data-based analysis of the economic challenges faced by undocumented women in California

Essential Wages: New Hampshire

An analysis of the impact of raising the minimum wage on tipped workers in New Hampshire

Tackling the Student Debt Crisis

An analysis of proposals to increase Pell Grants and the impact on reducing student debt

Essential Wages: New York

An analysis of New York State’s proposed elimination of the tipped minimum wage and its impact on low-wage women workers

How the US can accelerate progress on gender equity

Americans have the will to work toward women’s equality and gender equity. We just need a way.

Failing The Climate Justice Test

An analysis of projected climate resilience funding and its effects by region, race, and gender

Capitol Injustice

An analysis of proposals to make Washington D.C. a state and its potential impacts on women and Black Americans