Halie Mariano

About Halie Mariano

Halie Mariano is the 2020-2021 Mariam K. Chamberlain Fellow at the Institute for Women’s Policy Research.

Prior to her time at IWPR, Halie served as a qualitative research assistant on a health inequality project sponsored by the Russell Sage Foundation within Bucknell University’s Sociology department. This research focuses on linking electronic health records and in-depth interviews to uncover barriers to social mobility and health for women. Halie also conducted independent research comparing data on respondents’ religious denomination and their opinions on government spending using General Social Survey (GSS) data.

Halie received her Bachelors of Science in Business Administration with an additional major in Anthropology from Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. During her time at Bucknell, Halie was a four year letterwinner on the softball team and represented the student-athletes of the Patriot League on the Division I National Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC).

The Status of Women in North Carolina: Poverty & Opportunity
The Status of Women in North Carolina: Poverty & Opportunity

The Status of Women in North Carolina: Poverty & Opportunity

In North Carolina and across the United States, women have made significant progress. Despite this, many women remain in poverty with limited access to a quality education, affordable health care services, and other supports that would give them economic security. This report looks at four indicators necessary for women’s economic success: (1) access to health insurance coverage, (2) educational attainment, (3) business ownership, and (4) poverty rates. These indicators are combined to create an index that ranks North Carolina against all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

By Elyse Shaw and Halie Mariano|2022-04-18T07:14:57-05:00March 2, 2022|Publications, Report|0 Comments

Tackling the Gender and Racial Patenting Gap to Drive Innovation: Lessons from Women’s Experiences
Tackling the Gender and Racial Patenting Gap to Drive Innovation: Lessons from Women’s Experiences

Tackling the Gender and Racial Patenting Gap to Drive Innovation: Lessons from Women’s Experiences

Tackling the Gender and Racial Patenting Gap to Drive Innovation: Lessons from Women’s Experiences shows the challenges women face in patenting process and provides recommendations to diversify innovation. The report highlights experiences of inventors and barriers to entry across fields and the unique difficulties women inventors—and particularly women inventors of color—face throughout the innovation and patenting process. The authors make recommendations on how to get more women and women of color in the pipeline. These include tackling systemic racial and gender bias and discrimination, investing in child care and work-life balance supports, and increasing support and funding for accelerator programs for women.

By Elyse Shaw and Halie Mariano|2021-07-19T19:32:30-05:00July 19, 2021|Briefing Paper, Publications|0 Comments

DC Ranks Top for Women’s Employment and Earnings, but Black and Latina Women Are Left Behind
DC Ranks Top for Women’s Employment and Earnings, but Black and Latina Women Are Left Behind

DC Ranks Top for Women’s Employment and Earnings, but Black and Latina Women Are Left Behind

Since the start of COVID-19, women have been hit hard [...]

By Halie Mariano and Elyse Shaw|2021-06-24T14:11:23-05:00June 24, 2021|In the Lead|0 Comments

Before the “She-Cession”: A Pre-Pandemic Snapshot Shows More Women in the Workforce than Ever
Before the “She-Cession”: A Pre-Pandemic Snapshot Shows More Women in the Workforce than Ever

Before the “She-Cession”: A Pre-Pandemic Snapshot Shows More Women in the Workforce than Ever

The “she-cession” caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has created economic instability for women across the United States. Yet, before the COVID-19 pandemic, women’s employment and earnings were improving nationwide. It is important to track trends in women’s employment and earnings prior to the pandemic [...]

By Elyse Shaw and Halie Mariano|2021-12-03T12:32:40-05:00June 22, 2021|Briefing Paper, Economic, Security, Mobility, and Equity, Publications, Status of Women|0 Comments

Narrow the Gender Pay Gap, Reduce Poverty for Families: The Economic Impact of Equal Pay by State
Narrow the Gender Pay Gap, Reduce Poverty for Families: The Economic Impact of Equal Pay by State

Narrow the Gender Pay Gap, Reduce Poverty for Families: The Economic Impact of Equal Pay by State

Equal pay would significantly reduce poverty for working women and their families across the United States. If working women received equal pay with comparable men—men who are of the same age, have the same level of education, work the same number of hours, and have the same urban/rural status—poverty for working women would be reduced by more than 40 percent.

By Elyse Shaw and Halie Mariano|2021-12-03T12:33:11-05:00May 11, 2021|Briefing Paper, Economic, Security, Mobility, and Equity, Publications, Status of Women|0 Comments

Asian American and Pacific Islander Equal Pay Day Reveals Racial Challenges Despite Model Minority Stereotype
Asian American and Pacific Islander Equal Pay Day Reveals Racial Challenges Despite Model Minority Stereotype

Asian American and Pacific Islander Equal Pay Day Reveals Racial Challenges Despite Model Minority Stereotype

Over the past year, the COVID-19 pandemic has hit AAPI [...]

By Halie Mariano|2021-03-09T13:44:05-05:00March 9, 2021|In the Lead|0 Comments

Asian and Pacific Islander Women Earn Less than White Men in All but One State
Asian and Pacific Islander Women Earn Less than White Men in All but One State

Asian and Pacific Islander Women Earn Less than White Men in All but One State

In 2019, the median earnings of Asian American and Pacific Islander women for a year of full-time work were just 84.6 percent of White non-Hispanic men’s, and just 73.3 percent of the median annual earnings of Asian American and Pacific Islander men.2 While Asian American and Pacific Islander women had the highest median annual earnings for full-time year-round women of the largest racial and ethnic groups in the United States, $55,0003 compared to $47,299 for all women workers,4 this hides large differences in the labor market experiences for different groups of women.

By Ariane Hegewisch and Halie Mariano|2021-12-03T14:58:42-05:00March 8, 2021|Briefing Paper, Economic, Security, Mobility, and Equity, Publications|0 Comments

“I experienced unpredictability because I was working full-time and no longer had child care”
“I experienced unpredictability because I was working full-time and no longer had child care”

“I experienced unpredictability because I was working full-time and no longer had child care”

"I experienced unpredictability because I was working full-time and no longer had child care"

By Halie Mariano|2020-11-12T20:46:13-05:00November 12, 2020|In the Lead|0 Comments

Latina Equal Pay Day Highlights a Vicious Cycle: COVID-19 and the Gender Wage Gap
Latina Equal Pay Day Highlights a Vicious Cycle: COVID-19 and the Gender Wage Gap

Latina Equal Pay Day Highlights a Vicious Cycle: COVID-19 and the Gender Wage Gap

Today, on Latina Equal Pay Day, we are encouraged to think critically about the gender wage gap and the challenges Latina women face in the labor market.

By Halie Mariano|2020-11-02T17:41:35-05:00October 29, 2020|In the Lead|0 Comments

Latinas Projected to Reach Equal Pay in 2220
Latinas Projected to Reach Equal Pay in 2220

Latinas Projected to Reach Equal Pay in 2220

Latinas have made important strides in education, business creation, and political engagement. In recent decades, they have significantly increased their high school graduation rate and representation in teaching, law, medicine, and management professions. Yet in 2019, the average Latina earned only 55.4 percent of White non-Latino men’s earnings.

By Valerie Lacarte, Halie Mariano and Ariane Hegewisch|2021-12-03T15:06:18-05:00October 22, 2020|Economic, Security, Mobility, and Equity, Fact Sheet, Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Economy|0 Comments

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