Super Tuesday | Gender Gap | Superdelegates
A major issue this election season is pay equity. The [...]
A major issue this election season is pay equity. The [...]
A major issue this election season is pay equity. The [...]
Alabama ranks as the worst state in the South for [...]
Women in New Jersey — and nationally — make less [...]
Women who are top leaders or producers in property/casualty insurance [...]
The gender pay gap is a worldwide problem, but women [...]
Women own more than 42 percent of District businesses, a [...]
If working women were paid the same amount as their [...]
A new report, released in advance of Super Tuesday, by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR), finds that the gender wage gap costs women in the South $155.4 billion per year. Closing the wage gap would reduce relatively high poverty rate for working women in the southern United States by more than half. The Status of Women in the South is the first report to provide a comprehensive portrait of the status of women, particularly the status of women of color, in the southern states, grading each state on six different topic areas related to women’s economic, political, health, and social status.
There are a lot of reasons behind the pay gap. Some [...]