LAWCHA members and other labor scholars have been important contributors to the Gender Policy Report (GPR), an interdisciplinary project sponsored by the Center on Women, Gender, and Public Policy at the University of Minnesota. Inspired by the attention that Hillary Clinton’s candidacy brought to issues of gender equity and fairness in the presidential campaign of 2016, the center’s director, Christina Ewig, sought to sustain that momentum after the election of Donald Trump by bringing scholarly research and analysis to bear on the gendered effects of policy proposals and developments. The goal was to be nonpartisan and evidenced-based while distilling scholarly research into short and accessible essays with clear links to contemporary policy debates. Launched on the day of President Trump’s inauguration, the GPR has produced and disseminated more than one hundred essays, podcasts, and dialogues that have reached more than fifteen thousand individual visitors to its website and more than...

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