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Racial Discrimination, Sexual Harassment, and Intimate Partner Violence and the Workplace: Results from the 2024 Empire State Poll

This brief presents analysis of results of the 2024 Empire State Poll concerning rates of racial discrimination and sexual harassment in the workplace, as well as experiences of intimate partner violence and their impacts at work.
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Racial Discrimination, Sexual Harassment, and Intimate Partner Violence and the Workplace: Results from the 2024 Empire State Poll

Equity in Focus: Job Creation for a Just Society

This report explores these themes and discusses how policymakers, practitioners, and advocates are addressing the inequities in three sectors: the child care economy, the clean energy economy, and the construction trades, as presented in the Equity in focus—Job Creation for a Just Society series.
Women working during the pandemic
Equity in Focus: Job Creation for a Just Society

New study documents low wages and precarity of nail salon workers in New York State despite recent legislation

“Unvarnished: Precarity and Poor Working Conditions for Nail Salon Workers in New York State,” highlights the challenges of raising standards in the nail salon industry and also calls attention to the role of worker organizing and advocacy in driving industry change.
Nail Salon Worker
New study documents low wages and precarity of nail salon workers in New York State despite recent legislation

New study documents workplace sexual harassment and violence in California janitorial industry

Today, the Worker Institute at Cornell ILR released a new report that documents experiences of workplace sexual harassment in the California janitorial industry, as well as the conditions that hinder reporting and impose silence.
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New study documents workplace sexual harassment and violence in California janitorial industry

New Report: A High Road for Home Care

A ride-service program for homecare workers in Upstate New York during the pandemic provided substantial financial benefits and improved their quality of life, says a new report from the Worker Institute's Equity at Work Initiative.
Ruby Lovelist
New Report: A High Road for Home Care

New Report: New Yorkers Indicate That Retaliation Prevents Them From Exposing Workplace Dangers

Workers in NY are more likely than those in the rest of the country to feel pressure to refrain from reporting workplace problems such as sexual harassment and health and safety violations to avoid employer retaliation, according to analysis from the National Employment Law Project and the Worker Institute.
Sexual Harassment Complaint Form
New Report: New Yorkers Indicate That Retaliation Prevents Them From Exposing Workplace Dangers

Making Care Systems More Equitable

In collaboration with the Gender Policy Report, researchers at the The Worker Institute co-authored a new report that provides guidance on several measures and principles they say should be built into any new child care, long-term care and health care investments in order to drive greater equity.
Exhausted Black nurse during COVID
Making Care Systems More Equitable

New Survey From Broad Coalition Shows Overlapping Challenges of Racial, Gender, and Economic Injustice Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

Survey adds to a growing body of evidence showing need for worker-centered and equity-focused interventions in the pandemic recovery
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New Survey From Broad Coalition Shows Overlapping Challenges of Racial, Gender, and Economic Injustice Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

Fashioning a Response: Results from the Model Alliance COVID-19 Survey

New report from the Worker Institute and the Model Alliance released today on the impact of the Covid-19 crisis on the modeling industry.
Fashion Runway
Fashioning a Response: Results from the Model Alliance COVID-19 Survey

Quid Pro Quo Workplace Sexual Harassment Widespread Across New York State

Results from Cornell Survey Research Institute’s annual Empire State Poll find 1 in 10 adult New Yorkers report experiencing “someone in a position of authority at their workplace trying to trade job benefits for sexual favors.”
Women working in a grocery store
Quid Pro Quo Workplace Sexual Harassment Widespread Across New York State

Stopping Sexual Harassment in the Empire State

– A new report released today by researchers from the Worker Institute at Cornell University’s ILR School found that 10.9 percent of New York residents—12.2 percent of women and 9.5 percent of men—report having experienced quid pro quo workplace sexual harassment at some point in their careers.
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Stopping Sexual Harassment in the Empire State

Worker Institute Unveils Report on Engaging Men as Allies at Vera House, Inc.

The report analyzes Vera House Inc.’s 12 Men Model, a program designed to engage men as allies in preventing domestic and sexual violence in their networks and communities.
Vera House Protest
Worker Institute Unveils Report on Engaging Men as Allies at Vera House, Inc.

Preventing Violence

Wagner’s work was part of a report to the United Nations Commission on Women meetings in March in New York City. The report is titled “Ending Gender-Based Violence in the World of Work in the United States”.
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Preventing Violence

Worker Institute Fellow Sanjay Pinto Authors Report on Cooperatives

Sanjay Pinto, a Fellow of The Worker Institute, has authored a new report on how worker ownership could transform the economy.
Ours To Share: How Worker-Ownership Can Change the American Economy
Worker Institute Fellow Sanjay Pinto Authors Report on Cooperatives

The Creative Economy

Union leaders, activists, policymakers, academics, and arts and entertainment workers discussed changes in the industry and the challenges of representing its workers.  
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The Creative Economy

Reducing Harassment

In 2012, researchers from ILR and anti-street harassment organization Hollaback! began a partnership to conduct a street harassment research survey in New York City. The study expanded to 42 cities around the world.
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Reducing Harassment

ILR and Hollaback! Release Largest Analysis of Street Harassment to Date

Last year, Hollaback! and The ILR School partnered to conduct a large-scale research survey on street harassment that spanned the 42 cities around the world.
Street Harassment - The Largest International Cross-Cultural Study
ILR and Hollaback! Release Largest Analysis of Street Harassment to Date

Family Wages: The Roles of Wives and Mothers in U.S. Working-Class Survival Strategies, 1880-1930

This paper argues that we need to rethink our evaluation of the economic roles played by ever-married women in working-class families
Working mother with kids
Family Wages: The Roles of Wives and Mothers in U.S. Working-Class Survival Strategies, 1880-1930

Women and Union Leadership in the UK and USA: First Findings From a Cross-National Research Project

This is a report prepared for Cornell Conference on Women and Union Leadership held at Cornell University, New York City on May 8th 2010 and for Queen Mary/SERTUC Workshop on Women and Union Leadership held at Congress House, London on 11th September 2010.
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Women and Union Leadership in the UK and USA: First Findings From a Cross-National Research Project

Is There A Women’s Way Of Organizing? Genders, Unions, and Effective Organizing

Between spring of 2008 and summer 2009, Cornell ILR Labor Programs faculty, staff, and students conducted a project to investigate and analyze several recent examples of women-focused union organizing campaigns. Our purpose was to contribute to the ongoing debates among labor and community activists about how to organize more effectively.
Woman protesting
Is There A Women’s Way Of Organizing? Genders, Unions, and Effective Organizing