Half of all US Families have a Breadwinner Mother
New state-by-state analysis shows wide geographic variation of breadwinner mothers by race and ethnicity
Campus Child Care Declining in Most States Despite Growing Numbers of College Students with Children
As nearly 5 million undergraduate students raising children return to college this fall, a new state-by-state analysis by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) finds that campus child care is declining in most states across the country, and that many states have rules making it difficult for students to get child care subsidies.
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.
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 [...]
Opinion: Women Need Equal Opportunities for Job Advancement
Heidi Hartmann , an economist, is the president and founder [...]
80 Percent of Patents Belong Solely to Men
By Michelle Chen Unless women are somehow only 25 percent [...]
How Cracked Is That Glass Ceiling, Really?
By Judith Warner Many women don’t get any formal encouragement [...]
Why aren’t there more women in Congress?
By Sarah Kliff and Soo Oh Overall, the American legislature [...]
Where Are All the Republican Women?
This was not the vision that Sharon Day, co-chair of [...]
Even as Doctors, Women Get Slapped With the Pay Gap
By Amrith Ramkumar “If we can’t ameliorate these sex differences [...]
