Equal Pay for Women and a Higher Minimum Wage Will Move the Economy Forward
by Heidi Hartmann This post originally appeared on Working Economics, [...]
by Heidi Hartmann This post originally appeared on Working Economics, [...]
by Caroline Dobuzinskis, former IWPR Communications Manager, and Mallory Mpare [...]
According to an Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) analysis of the January employment report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), women gained 75,000 jobs added to nonfarm payrolls in December while men lost 1,000 for a net increase of 74,000 jobs in December.
by Heidi Hartmann, Ph.D. This message originally appeared in IWPR’s [...]
A recent IWPR briefing paper, “Maternity, Paternity, and Adoption Leave in the United States,” shows that 20 years after the passage of the Family and Medical Leave Act, many workers lack access to paid leave and the United States still lags behind all other developed and industrialized countries as the only high-income country that does not offer nationwide paid maternity leave.
This report presents findings from an Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) analysis of the 2005-2009 American Community Survey data regarding the earnings of older men and women with different levels of education.
1. If current trends continue, it will take almost another [...]
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by Lindsey Reichlin and Stephanie Román This blog post was [...]
According to an Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) analysis of the December employment report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), of the 203,000 total jobs added to nonfarm payrolls in November, women gained 94,000 of those jobs (46 percent) while men gained 109,000 jobs (54 percent).