Obama Seeks to Lift U.S. Women's Pay Further Out of 'Mad Men' Era
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What Obama said about Women
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Equal Pay for Working Women would Boost the Economy
On the fifth anniversary of the signing of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act—a bill that reinstated women’s ability to contest unlawful pay discrimination and was the first bill signed into law by President Obama—analysis from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) finds that the poverty rate for working women would be cut in half if women were paid the same as comparable men, and that greater pay transparency would increase women’s pay.
Why College Degrees Pay Off Big After 65
Having a college degree, along with the higher income that [...]
Lilly Ledbetter Says the President Can Do More for Equal Pay: Sign an Executive Order
[...] "The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act is just the [...]
Financial Benefits Of A College Degree Accumulate
It's been said that having more education usually leads to [...]
How Equal Pay for Working Women would Reduce Poverty and Grow the American Economy
According to a regression analysis of federal data by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR), the poverty rate for working women would be cut in half if women were paid the same as comparable men. The analysis—prepared by IWPR for use in The Shriver Report’s A Woman’s Nation Pushes Back from the Brink, produced in partnership with the Center for American Progress—also estimates that the U.S. economy would have produced income of $447.6 billion more if women received equal pay, which represents 2.9 percent of 2012 gross domestic product (GDP).
Job Growth in December Due Entirely to Women’s Employment Gains
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 all 74,000 jobs added to nonfarm payrolls in December, while men lost 1,000 jobs (women’s jobs gains were actually 75,000). Men hold 1.5 million more jobs than women as of December, a number which is substantially less than at the start of the recession, when men held 3.4 million more jobs.
Should Staying Home with a Sick Kid Cause a Working Mom so Much Anxiety?
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Study Explores How Higher Education Pays Off for Older Americans at Different Ages
New research from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) finds that higher education pays off for women and men for all ages 50 and older, including for the oldest group studied, those 75 and older.
