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Nearly Twice as Many Women as Men Work in Occupations with Poverty Wages

On Equal Pay Day, the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) released new analysis finding that women earn less than men in almost all of the 116 occupations for which the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes weekly full-time earnings data for both women and men. In at least 109 of the 116 occupations, including almost all of the 20 most common occupations for women, women made significantly less than men.

By IWPR|2015-04-14T00:00:00-05:00April 14, 2015|Press Releases|Comments Off on Nearly Twice as Many Women as Men Work in Occupations with Poverty Wages