Gender Wage Gap Narrows only Slightly Even though Women’s Earnings Are More Important than Ever to American Families
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A new Briefing Paper, The Workforce Investment Act and Women's [...]
The Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA) is the primary basis for federally funded workforce development. One of its stated purposes it to “increase the employment, retention and earnings of participants…”
A new Fact Sheet released by the Institute for Women's [...]
Equal pay and the wage gap have become central issues in discussions of John Roberts’ nomination to the Supreme Court.
The gender wage gap is much narrower now than it was at the start of the revolutionary decade of the 1960s, when long-standing barriers to women’s educational achievement and employment success began to be dismantled and the first of a series of critical equal employment opportunity standards were enacted by Congress.
The Institute for Women’s Policy Research’s ongoing research project The Status of Women in the States measures women’s status in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.