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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 [...]

By |2017-10-26T13:49:35-05:00October 26, 2017|Press Releases|Comments Off on More than 1,000 Economists Urge American Economic Association to Address Misogyny in the Field

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 [...]

By |2017-09-07T14:11:10-05:00September 7, 2017|Press Releases|Comments Off on Single Mothers are 3 Times More Likely to Enroll in For-Profit Colleges than Single Students without Children

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, [...]

By |2017-03-22T13:08:41-05:00March 22, 2017|Press Releases|Comments Off on In 13 U.S. States, a Woman Born Today Will Not See Equal Pay During Her Working Life

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 [...]

By |2017-03-07T15:24:06-05:00March 7, 2017|Press Releases|Comments Off on Women’s Weekly Earnings Grew Steadily in 2016, with Strong Gains for Black and Hispanic Women

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.

By |2016-12-14T00:00:00-05:00December 14, 2016|Press Releases|Comments Off on Florida Receives D+ on Women’s Poverty and Access to Opportunity, with Wide Disparities by County