Special Event Resources 2026
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2026 Special Event Resources
Special Event #3
Stronger Together:
A Celebration of Women’s Leadership and Resilience
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- Decision Making: Explain vs. Defend, podcast by Sheila Lewis
- Lifestyle Medicine (mentioned during the session)
- Women’s average hourly pay Pew Research Center, 2025
- Women earning Bachelor Degrees NCES, 2023
- Women in C-suite roles McKinsey + LeanIn Organization, 2025
- Black women’s job losses
Institute for Women’s Policy Research, “Barriers, Not Bootstraps: Job Prospects Are Uneven for Young Black Women,” July 14, 2026. - 19 weeks: Median time Black women are unemployed
Institute for Women’s Policy Research, “Degrees Don’t Close the Divide: Black Women’s Educational Attainment Doesn’t Translate to Equal Earnings,” July 13, 2026. - Black women’s employment rate
The Black Wall Street Times, “600,000 Black Women Pushed Out of the Workforce: New IWPR report examines why,” August 5, 2026, updated August 17, 2026. - Healthcare costs and access
Kaiser Family Foundation, Women’s Health Care Affordability Challenges, 2026. - Child care costs
Seattle Department of Education and Early Learning / King County, The True Cost of Child Care in King County and Seattle, 2023, with supplemental 2026 pricing context. - Women experiencing violence
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, About Intimate Partner Violence. - 20 Million Single Women Now Own Homes, a New U.S. Record
- Abortion Restrictions and the Threat to Women’s Health
- Trump’s War on Working Women: Year One of Trump’s War on Working Women Published Jan 21, 2026
- Black Female Project
- Qualified: How Competency Checking and Race Collide at Work, by Shari Dunn (2025)
- Women run a record 11% of Fortune 500 companies in 2026, but the gain came in a year of high-profile exitshttps://fortune.com/2026/06/03/how-many-women-are-fortune-500-ceos/
- The Numbers Don’t Add Up: Women Continue to Earn Less, Regardless of Occupation
The Gender Wage Gap by Occupation 2025