National Clearinghouse of Research and Data - YWCA USA

In an effort to showcase key data and research that supports our mission, YWCA would like to highlight partner organizations, external stakeholders, and academic institutions that help to advance our vision. The National Data Clearinghouse is a comprehensive list of research reports, surveys, case studies, and policy recommendations that are aligned with improving the key areas of our mission: Racial Justice and Civil Rights, Empowerment and Economic Advancement, and Health and Safety.

At YWCA USA, we pride ourselves on providing interdisciplinary programs and services to support women at every stage of life. We understand that, to advance this work, effective data collection from various fields is vital to the operational excellence of YWCA USA as well as our 200+ local associations across the country.

The following list of data sources below is a continuous project and will be updated on a bi-annual basis. If you would like to submit your data/research findings to the National Data Clearinghouse, please email: clowry@ywca.org

Racial Justice and Civil Rights:

Racial Justice and Civil Rights

Empowerment and Economic Advancement

Empowerment and Economic Advancement

Health and Safety

Health and Safety

Women’s Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2018 (Prison Policy Initiative)
Women in the Criminal Justice System: Pathways to Incarceration in Virginia (ACLU Virginia)
Overlooked: Women and Jails in an Era of Reform (Vera Institute of Justice)
2015 U.S. Transgender Survey Reports (2015 U.S. Transgender Survey)
The Color of Justice: Racial and Ethnic Disparity in State Prisons (The Sentencing Project)
Missing and Murdered Indigenous-Women and Girls Report (Urban Indian Health Institute)
State of Black Women in the U.S. and Key State, 2018 (Black Women’s Roundtable)
The Gender Gap: Voting Choices In Presidential Elections (Center for American Women and Politics)
U.S Census Bureau: General Voting Data
Status of Women in the States: Political Participation (Institute for Women’s Policy Research)
Paid Family Leave in the United States (Urban Institute)
A National Paid Parental Leave Policy
for the United States (The Hamilton Project)
National Women’s Law Center: State Data

U.S Dept. of Labor: Women’s Bureau Data and Statistics
America’s Women and the Wage Gap (National Partnership for Women & Families)
Closing the Women’s Wealth Gap (Women’s Wealth Gap)
Justice Doesn’t Trickle Down: How Gendered Rules Are Holding Women Back (Ms. Foundation & Roosevelt Institute)
Women & Economic Anxiety (Edison Research)
What a $15 Minimum Wage Means for Women and Workers of Color (National Employment Law Center)
The Gender Disadvantage: Why Inequity Persists (Heartland Alliance)
Women, Business and Law 2019 (World Bank Group)
The Gender Wage Gap: 2018 Earnings Differences by Race and Ethnicity (Institute for Women’s Policy Research)
The Status of Women in Media 2019 (Women’s Media Center)
Women In the Workplace 2017 (McKinsey & Company)
Status of Women in the States: Employment Data (Institute for Women’s Policy Research)
Early Childhood Workforce Index 2018 (UC Berkeley)
The Child Care Crisis is Keeping Women Out of the Workforce (Center for American Progress)
Women in the Workforce 2018 (McKinsey and Company)
Driving Growth through
Women’s Economic Participation (Hamilton Project)
Paid Family and Medical Leave: A Racial Justice Issue – and Opportunity (National Partnership for Women and Families)

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Women’s Health Data
Women of Color Health Information Collection (National Institute of Health)
Guttmacher Institute Data Center
The Health Care System and Racial Disparities in Maternal Mortality (Center for American Progress)
State Profiles for Women’s Health (Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation)
Status of Women in the United States: Health & Well-Being (Institute for Women’s Policy Research)
Black Maternal Health: A Multifaceted Approach to Addressing Persistent and Dire Health Disparities (National Partnership for Women and Families)
Status of Women in the United States: Spotlight on Women of Color: Violence and Safety (Institute for Women’s Policy Research)
The State of Black Women and Reproductive Justice (In Our Own Voice)
The Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice of Latinas (Hispanic Bar Association)
Our Bodies, Our Stories (Urban Indian Health Institute)
Young Women of Color and Exposure to Violence (Center for Law and Social Policy)
Obstacles to Voting for Survivors
of Intimate Partner Violence (Center for American Progress)
Afterschool In Your S tate (Afterschool Alliance)