Bay Area Study: Paid family leave in California keeps women in jobs By Grace Gedye | CalMatters | December 12, 2022 For women with spouses who have serious medical issues, access to paid family leave reduces the likelihood that they leave work.
California Cal Poly SLO enrolls the lowest rate of Black students among all the state’s public universities By Mikhail Zinshteyn | CalMatters | November 29, 2022 The most selective university in the CSU system enrolled a miniscule 146 undergraduate Black students this fall.
California A work-from-home culture takes root in California By Phillip Reese | Kaiser Health News | November 28, 2022 Researchers say the shift will ripple through the broader economy in ways big and small.
Uncategorized Stereotypes of middle-aged women as less ‘nice’ can hold them back in their careers By Michael Blanding, UC Berkeley Haas | Bay City News Foundation | November 15, 2022 Research out of UC Berkeley shows that woman, as they get older, are judged more harshly than men.
Bay Area Study finds college president searches favor white men and offers strategies to change that By Emma Gallegos | EdSource | October 31, 2022 A new report comes at a critical time in California, with positions at the helm open at CSU, community colleges, and other institutions.
Bay Area Would Prop. 1 allow abortions after fetal viability? Legal experts say no By Alexei Koseff | CalMatters | October 31, 2022 Proponents say that passing the proposition enshrines the right to abortion into the California Constitution so that a future court cannot take it away.
Bay Area One fifth of SF offices expected to remain vacant through 2026 By Eli Walsh | Bay City News Foundation | October 24, 2022 Office-based employers account for nearly three-quarters of San Francisco's gross domestic product.
Bay Area Fall undergraduate enrollment declines have slowed, but still ‘troubling’ By Emma Gallegos | EdSource | October 20, 2022 College matriculation declines nationwide are steeper at four-year schools than at community colleges.
Bay Area Was the public health workforce’s pandemic funding boost enough? By Kristen Hwang | CalMatters | October 19, 2022 During the decade after the 2008 recession, state funding for public health dropped 64%.
California Agency battling wage theft in California is too short-staffed to do its job By Alejandro Lazo, Jeanne Kuang and Julie Watts | CalMatters | October 17, 2022 The state is a national leader in labor law, experts say, but its agency enforcing wage theft rules in California still struggles to staff up.