UH Institute for Research on Women, Gender, & Sexuality

08/17/2025

https://uh.edu/class/ws/irwgs/research/domestic-violence/affordable-childcare-could-reduce-domestic-violence/
Affordable Childcare Could Reduce Domestic Violence - IRWGS

12/11/2024

Excited to share news of this award, based on the UH IRWGS 2023 Domestic Violence report.

07/04/2024

New study from our IRWGS - webinar Monday July 8, 11am-noon

University of Houston research uncovers that Black women in Texas face severe maternal morbidity at nearly twice the rate of white women due to preexisting health conditions, highlighting the need for expanded pre-pregnancy health care.

04/05/2024

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In 2022, per the CDC‘s newly issued final birth data report for that year, the overall fertility rate fell 1%, and the ripple effect pattern of delay evidenced in 2021 continued. Births among women under 25 continued to decline, while births among women 25 and over continued to rise...

Ripple Effects of Delay – 2022 Birth Data In 2022, per the CDC‘s newly issued final birth data report for that year, the overall fertility rate fell 1%, and the ripple effect pattern of delay evidenced in 2021 continued. Births among women under 25 continued to decline, while births among women ...

03/13/2024

Equal Pay Day - was March 14th last year, and it was March 12th this year. Good trend, but still a distance to equity. Talking about EPD on KPRC:

Professor Elizabeth Gregory Professor & Director, WGSS & IRWGS, University of Houston, discusses the disparity in pay between men and women on Equal Pay Day.

01/22/2024

New IRWGS Repro Health Update: 2022 Fertility Rates, post 2021 Six-Week Abortion Ban - Hispanic Women 25-44 Most Affected https://www.uh.edu/class/ws/irwgs/research/reproductive-health-update-january-2024/

03/16/2023

Join us for the UH IRWGS-UH Pharmacy Refugee Health Symposium on March 27.
Registration at: https://uhcop.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_blrGYjYwXR8CC4S
Details at: https://uh.edu/.../refugee-health-research-symposium/index

02/09/2023

Sharing the link to our Report to the Community on the Houston Area DV Service Providers Study + Initial Local DV Data Aggregation:
https://www.uh.edu/class/ws/irwgs/_docs/2023/dv-providers-study-report-final-feb-2023.pdf
Executive summary:
https://www.uh.edu/class/ws/irwgs/_docs/2023/uh-irwgs-report-to-the-community-exec-summ-february-2023.pdf

01/13/2023

Watch Michelle Avalos (Co-Founder, Impact Hub & UH Bauer Alum) interview Elizabeth Gregory on how Table Talk supports UH-WGSS/IRWGS
https://youtu.be/RBkO4LmxpCc

More on Feb 15 Table Talk & tables/tickets:
https://www.uh.edu/class/ws/Programs/table-talk/

05/11/2022

Our own Dr. Zelma Oyarvide Tuthill has joined the Scholars Strategy Network and contributed a policy brief about the maternal mortality crisis in TX.
Check it out below! 👇
https://scholars.org/contribution/addressing-maternal-mortality-texas-requires?fbclid=IwAR0ZB706pa3i_zE-SN6hnAee7P7vR6e7Hc5toDjJ2gnt0jU1nLNgMUUXWv0

For years, studies have shown a maternal mortality crisis in the United States. While there has been some controversy about data collection errors in previous analyses of maternal deaths, corrections of the data continue to highlight significant disparities.

05/04/2022

78% of Texas voters think abortion should be allowed in some form, UT poll shows. | Only 15% of respondents to a recent University of Texas at Austin poll said access to the procedure should be completely outlawed.

Only 15% of respondents to a recent University of Texas at Austin poll said access to the procedure should be completely outlawed.

03/03/2022

Maternal Mortality up in 2020 - especially among Black and Hispanic women. Factors noted included higher death rates among pregnant women with Covid, reduction in prenatal visits, increased depression, maternal age (rates were much higher among women 40+).
https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2022-02-23/u-s-maternal-mortality-rate-surged-in-2020 .
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/maternal-mortality/2020/maternal-mortality-rates-2020.htm