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How policy changes could do more to support working women

While women now comprise the majority of the college-educated workforce, many working women still face challenges.

By Katie Kuehner-Hebert | February 04, 2020 at 12:00 PM
individual women of various ages, races A number of the recommendations in IWF’s first report in 2016—including tax cuts for workers—have been implemented, but more needs to be done, the group asserts.

Well-meaning but misguided government mandates aimed to help working women can easily backfire and have unintended negative consequences.

So asserts the Independent Women’s Forum, which outlines a number of policy changes its members believe would be more effective in the group’s second edition of “Working for Women – A Modern Agenda for Improving Women’s Lives.” A number of the recommendations in IWF’s first report in 2016 — including tax cuts for workers — have been implemented, but more needs to be done, the group asserts.

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