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Nearly Twice as Many Women as Men Work in Occupations with Poverty Wages

On Equal Pay Day, the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) released new analysis finding that women earn less than men in almost all of the 116 occupations for which the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes weekly full-time earnings data for both women and men. In at least 109 of the 116 occupations, including almost all of the 20 most common occupations for women, women made significantly less than men.

By IWPR|2015-04-14T00:00:00-05:00April 14, 2015|Press Releases|Comments Off on Nearly Twice as Many Women as Men Work in Occupations with Poverty Wages

Access to Paid Sick Time in Los Angeles, California

This briefing paper presents estimates of access to paid sick time in Los Angeles by sex, race/ethnicity, occupation, part/full-time employment status, and personal earnings through analysis of government data sources, including the 2011–2013 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) and the 2013 American Community Survey (ACS).

By IWPR|2020-12-14T09:55:17-05:00April 6, 2015|IWPR|Comments Off on Access to Paid Sick Time in Los Angeles, California

Slower Job Gains in March: Women Gained 105,000 and Men Gained 21,000 Jobs

According to an Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) analysis of the April employment report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), as of March men hold more jobs (71,519,000) than when the recession began (70,769,000 in December 2007) seven years earlier.

By IWPR|2020-10-30T17:25:56-05:00April 3, 2015|IWPR|Comments Off on Slower Job Gains in March: Women Gained 105,000 and Men Gained 21,000 Jobs

Low-Wage, Part-Time, and Service Workers Are the Least Likely to Have Access to Paid Sick Days in Louisiana

New analysis by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) finds that 41 percent of Louisiana’s workers lack access to a single paid sick day, and access is especially low among part-time and low-wage workers, communities of color, and service workers in the state.

By IWPR|2015-03-19T00:00:00-05:00March 19, 2015|Press Releases|Comments Off on Low-Wage, Part-Time, and Service Workers Are the Least Likely to Have Access to Paid Sick Days in Louisiana

New Report Projects When Women in Each U.S. State Will Achieve Equal Pay; Five States Won’t See Equal Pay until the Next Century

The first release from Status of Women in the States: 2015, a project of the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR), finds that, if current trends in narrowing the pay gap in the states continue, the date when women in the United States will achieve equal pay is 2058, but new projections for each state find this date is much further out in the future for women in many parts of the country.

By IWPR|2015-03-12T00:00:00-05:00March 12, 2015|Press Releases|Comments Off on New Report Projects When Women in Each U.S. State Will Achieve Equal Pay; Five States Won’t See Equal Pay until the Next Century