Access to Better Jobs: Workforce Development Projects aim to Lift Up Working Women
For nearly 30 years, IWPR has analyzed and charted women’s [...]
The Economic Status of Women in New York State
This briefing paper assesses women’s economic status in New York state, drawing comparisons with other states in the Middle Atlantic region and the nation overall.
If Current Trends Continue, Hispanic Women Will Wait 232 Years for Equal Pay; Black Women Will Wait 108 Years
In advance of Latinas’ Equal Pay Day on November 1—the day symbolizing how far into the year that Latinas must work to earn what White men earned in the previous year—the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) released an analysis finding that, if trends over the last 30 years continue, Hispanic women will not see equal pay with White men until 2248, 232 years from now.
High School Girls and Violence 2015: A Chartbook
This chartbook focuses on an area often ignored in discussions about the well-being of girls generally, and girls of color in particular—the alarming proportion of high school girls experiencing physical and sexual violence at the hands of schoolmates, friends, family members, and dating partners.
Intersections of Sexual Violence and Economic Security
Domestic and dating violence, or intimate partner violence (IPV), is an unfortunately common reality that has short- and long-term negative effects on survivors’ economic security, and independence.
Intersections of Domestic Violence and Economic Security
Domestic and dating violence, or intimate partner violence (IPV), is an unfortunately common reality that has short- and long-term negative effects on survivors’ economic security, and independence.
Job Growth Among Women Continues to Climb: 65 percent of Jobs Added in the 3rd Quarter of 2016 Went to Women
The Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) analysis of the September employment report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) finds that women gained 56,000 jobs and men gained 100,000 jobs for a total of 156,000 jobs added in September, giving women 36 percent of job growth.
Summer 2016 Quarterly Newsletter
As of June 1, 2016, the Economic Security for Survivors (ESS) Project, established by WOW, will be housed at IWPR, along with many of WOW’s informational resources.
The Business Case for Women’s Employment in Agribusiness
This report was prepared by International Finance Corporation as part of a work program on women’s employment in agribusiness funded by the World Bank Group’s Private Sector Window of the Umbrella Facility for Gender Equality.
Five Ways to Win an Argument about the Gender Wage Gap (Updated 2019)
In this post, we argue that the figure is an accurate measure of the inequality in earnings between women and men who work full-time, year-round in the labor market and reflects a number of different factors: discrimination in pay, recruitment, job assignment, and promotion; lower earnings in occupations mainly done by women; and women’s disproportionate share of time spent on family care, including that they—rather than fathers—still tend to be the ones to take more time off work when families have children.
