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Black Women Saw Wages Decline Three Times as Much as Women Overall in the Last Decade

In advance of African American Women’s Equal Pay Day on August 23—the day symbolizing how far into the year Black women 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, between 2004 and 2014, Black women’s real median annual earnings for full-time, year-round work declined by 5.0 percent—more than three times as much as earnings for all women.

By |2016-08-22T00:00:00-04:00August 22, 2016|Press Releases|Comments Off on Black Women Saw Wages Decline Three Times as Much as Women Overall in the Last Decade
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Middle-skill Jobs: High school vocational or technical classes are good paths toward future employment.

By Houston Chronicle Editorial Board The gender gap is another [...]

By |2016-08-17T18:12:57-04:00August 17, 2016|Press Hits|Comments Off on Middle-skill Jobs: High school vocational or technical classes are good paths toward future employment.
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At the Current Rate, Women Inventors Will Not Reach Parity in Patenting Until 2092

Although women have more than quintupled their representation among patent holders since 1977, fewer than one in five of all patents had at least one woman inventor in 2010, according to a new briefing paper by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR). IWPR projects that at the current rate of progress, women inventors will not reach parity in patenting until 2092.

By |2016-07-21T00:00:00-04:00July 21, 2016|Press Releases|Comments Off on At the Current Rate, Women Inventors Will Not Reach Parity in Patenting Until 2092
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