California's Budget Slams Women

From the Women's Foundation of California~

How the Other Half Fared: The Impact of the Great Recession and the Budget Crisis on California's Women and Their Families

The Great Recession has often been referred to as a “Mancession.” But three new policy briefs funded by the Women's Foundation of California and released by the California Budget Project reveal that women and their families continue to shoulder the burden of the economic downturn. Women are delaying retirement, single mothers are struggling to make ends meet while the very safety net programs that would support them are disappearing and married women are increasingly becoming sole breadwinners of their families.

The Women's Foundation of California partnered with the California Budget Project to research and write these briefs because we wanted the upcoming budget debates to be informed by the challenges facing women and their families. This is the first-ever gender analysis of the budget.

Download the policy briefs from the California Budget Project website. Click here to see what action you can take.