Job Training and Support Services In-The-News: Week of March 21, 2016
Weekly Roundup of the news on women and supportive services [...]
Here's one way for women to stay out of poverty
Extensive research has shown that women on average make less [...]
Good and Growing Middle-Skill Jobs Exclude Women, New Report Shows
Women hold only a third of positions in growing middle-skill jobs that pay at least $35,000 or as much as $102,000 per year, according to a new report by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR). These middle-skill jobs, which require a high school education but not a college degree, pay a living wage and can serve as a stepping stone to a higher-paying career for women workers, who now serve as the sole or co-breadwinner in half of American families.
Job Training and Support Services In-The-News: Week of March 14, 2016
Weekly Roundup of the news on women and supportive services [...]
Job Training and Support Services In-The-News: Week of March 7, 2016
Weekly Roundup of the news on women and supportive services [...]
Here's Which States Offer Women The Most Equality
"Women tend to do well where the industries that dominate [...]
Job Training and Support Services In-The-News: Week of February 29, 2016
Weekly Roundup of the news on women and supportive services [...]
New Data Shows the Gender Wage Gap Widened in 2015
On the eve of International Women’s Day 2016—with this year’s campaign focused on reaching gender parity across the globe—a new fact sheet by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) finds that progress on narrowing the wage gap in the United States has not only stalled, but reversed. The ratio of women’s to men’s median weekly full-time earnings declined from 82.5 percent in 2014 to 81.1 percent in 2015, increasing the gender gap to 18.9 percent from 17.5 percent last year.
2016’s Best & Worst States for Women
In light of Women’s History Month, WalletHub’s analysts compared the [...]
Women Gain 167,000 Jobs Out of 242,000 Jobs Added in February
The Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) analysis of the March employment report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) finds that women gained 167,000 jobs and men gained 75,000 for a total of 242,000 jobs added in February, giving women 69 percent of job growth.
