More than 1,000 Economists Urge American Economic Association to Address Misogyny in the Field
Contacts: Jennifer Clark, clark@iwpr.org, 202.785.5100; Michael Reich, michaelreich.prof@gmail.com Washington, DC—A [...]
Single Mothers are 3 Times More Likely to Enroll in For-Profit Colleges than Single Students without Children
Contact: Jennifer Clark | 202-785-5100 | clark@iwpr.org Washington, DC—Three in [...]
Millennial Women Have Yet to Recover from the Great Recession
New analysis finds young Black women are twice as likely [...]
Female Personal Financial Advisors Face Widest Wage Gap at 44%
New analysis finds that almost 3 times as many women [...]
In 13 U.S. States, a Woman Born Today Will Not See Equal Pay During Her Working Life
If current trends continue, women living in North Dakota, Utah, [...]
Women’s Weekly Earnings Grew Steadily in 2016, with Strong Gains for Black and Hispanic Women
But Black and Hispanic women still face wide wage gaps [...]
Florida Receives D+ on Women’s Poverty and Access to Opportunity, with Wide Disparities by County
Washington, DC—A new county-level analysis of the status of women in Florida, released by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) in partnership with the Florida Women’s Funding Alliance (FWFA), finds that women in Florida have higher rates of poverty, lower educational attainment, and lower access to health insurance coverage than women in the United States overall, but the state ranks 5th in the nation on women’s business ownership. The report estimates that if working women in Florida were paid the same as comparable men—men who are of the same age, have the same level of education, work the same number of hours, and have the same urban/rural status—the poverty rate among all working women would fall by 57.3 percent.
Job Training and Community College Administrators Say Supportive Services are Key to Program Completion, but are Not Adequately Funded
Washington, DC—A new survey released today by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR), reports that 97 percent of job training administrators say that supportive services—such as child care, housing, emergency cash, and transportation assistance—are important or very important in helping participants complete job or skills training programs, but programs lack funding to offer enough services to meet demand. Although virtually all job training administrators want to provide more supportive services, nearly two-thirds say they are unlikely to expand their services in the near future, with funding constraints listed as the top reason.
Male Inventors are Three Times More Likely to Apply for Patents than Women
A new report from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) finds that, between 2000 and 2016, the number of patent applications with a man listed as the primary inventor was more than triple the number of applications with a woman listed first, but applications filed by women and men primary inventors were accepted at similar rates (67 and 73 percent, respectively).
Job Segregation Keeps 1 in 4 Working Women in Traditional Care, Serving, and Cleaning Roles with Lowest Pay
A new study by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) and Oxfam America finds that more than one in four employed women in the United States are concentrated in low-wage “women’s work”—such as teaching young children, cleaning, serving, and caring for elders—jobs that are done primarily by women, pay less than $15 per hour, and provide few benefits. Workers in these female-dominated jobs, who are disproportionately women of color, earn less than men working in jobs with similar requirements for education, skills, stamina, and hours.
