The Pandemic Has Been Toughest on Young Black, Latina, and LGBTQ Women. They Know the Policy Solutions to Help.
This week, IWPR hosted a webinar focused on the needs [...]
This week, IWPR hosted a webinar focused on the needs [...]
As more families buy their holiday gifts online rather than [...]
More women than ever work in the construction trades. The [...]
Apprentices make up the next generation of skilled tradespeople to [...]
Careers in the construction trades can provide high earnings and good benefits, often through a learn-while-you-earn apprenticeship. In 2020, more than 300,000 women worked in the trades—the largest number ever. Yet while their numbers are growing, women still make up fewer than one in twenty of workers in construction occupations.
Evidence from California suggests that construction workers face the highest COVID-19 infection rates of any other sector. IWPR’s 2021 survey of tradeswomen across states shows that most construction workers who needed to take leave during COVID-19 had to do so without pay.
By Eve Mefferd The last Equal Pay Day of the [...]
Latina women are paid less than White men in all states with sufficient sample sizes. They will not see equal pay until 2206.
In year one of COVID-19, the gender wage gap narrowed slightly only for full-time, year-round workers, with women in low-paying jobs bearing the brunt of the crisis. For all workers, the gender gap widened slightly.
There are just two major industries where there are now [...]