In March women gained 38,000 jobs (about one-third of all jobs added) and men gained 82,000. Women’s employment growth was aided by strong growth in health care (26,000 jobs added overall) and food service and drinking places (36,900 jobs added overall). The gap between women’s and men’s employment in March is 1.9 million.
For all the recent hand-wringing over women voters, we still [...]
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Research Analyst Claudia Williams discusses the gender wage gap on [...]
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Washington, DC— According to an Institute for Women’s Policy Research [...]
A new fact sheet released today by the Institute of Women’s Policy Research (IWPR), based on data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, shows that in 2011 women earned 17.8 percent less than men for a week of full-time work, a decrease of one percentage point since 2010 and the smallest wage gap seen since 1970.
"First, the tough news: Although women make up 49% of [...]
"More states and cities are starting to require businesses to [...]
