'Pay Secrecy' Policies At Work: Often Illegal, And Misunderstood
President Obama says his administration is fighting to close the [...]
Why Equal Pay for Equal Work Won't Cut It
While Democrats on Capitol Hill push the Paycheck Fairness Act, [...]
Women and Students of Color Disproportionately Raising Children While in College, See Lower Earnings after Graduation
Washington, DC– A new Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) report finds that 4.8 million college students in 2012 had their own dependent children, representing more than one in four (26 percent) of all college students, up from 23 percent in 2008. The report was released today in conjunction with “Lumina Ideas Summit: New Models of Student Financial Support.”
6 Things Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler Missed about the Gender Wage Gap
by Heidi Hartmann, Ph.D., Barbara Gault, Ph.D., and Ariane Hegewisch [...]
Gender Wage Gap Persists in Almost All Occupations
According to a new analysis by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR), women earn less than men in almost all of the 112 occupations for which the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes weekly full-time earnings data for both women and men.
Women Gained 99,000 Jobs in March
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), women gained 99,000 jobs on nonfarm payrolls in March
Jump Starting Real Wage Growth for Women: Increasing the Minimum Wage and Improving Overtime Laws
By Heidi Hartmann In the context of a lost decade [...]
The Lost Decade of Wage Growth for Women
by Heidi Hartmann Twice a year, the Institute for Women’s [...]
How 'Male' Jobs Hurt Female Paychecks
Why do women still earn less than men? No seriously, [...]
Putting People First: The Yellen Era Begins at the Fed
by Heidi Hartmann IWPR President Heidi Hartmann (right) with [...]
