Equal Pay Day: What You Need to Know about the Gender Wage Gap in 2017
Equal Pay Day 2017 is Tuesday, April 4, marking how [...]
March IWPR Research News Roundup
RESEARCH MAKING THE NEWS Here’s How Long It Will Take [...]
Honoring Women’s History Month With Facts That Matter
Facts matter, that is why the Institute for Women’s Policy [...]
An Economy without Women? 5 Facts to Know
5 Facts about Women and the Economy in Advance of [...]
New Survey of Job Training Participants Indicates Supportive Services are Critical to Completing a Program
IWPR recently released findings from a survey of nearly 2,000 [...]
Getting to the Finish Line: The Availability and Impact of Supportive Services in the Workforce Development System
This report presents an overview of findings from the Job Training Success Project at the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, which investigated access to supportive services across the workforce development system and how gaps in services can be addressed.
A Time to Honor, Reflect, and Inspire Change
As a leading think tank in the United States addressing policy through an intersectional and gendered lens, the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) marshals social science research and brings it to bear on the inequalities women face every day.
February Research News Roundup
RESEARCH IN THE NEWS Boston Comes Together to Help Immigrants [...]
Estimating Usage and Costs of Alternative Policies to Provide Paid Sick Days in the United States
This brief explores the costs and benefits of alternative sick days policies applied at the national level: San Francisco’s Paid Sick Leave Ordinance, the Vermont Act, and the proposed federal Healthy Families Act.
Estimating Usage and Costs of Alternative Policies to Provide Paid Family and Medical Leave in the United States
This brief summarizes a simulation analysis of five different paid family and medical leave model programs selected to show a range of generosity of provision and based on working programs in three states (California 2002 legislation and 2016 revisions, New Jersey, and Rhode Island) and a federal proposal (the FAMILY Act), all applied to the national workforce.
