"Full-time working women in America earned only 82.2% of men's median weekly earnings last year, according to a new report by the Institute for Women's Policy Research, a think-tank in Washington, DC. Women earned less than [...]

"Tuesday marked Equal Pay Day, a day established in 1996 to symbolize how long it takes women to earn the same wages that men earned last year. However, a new study shows that the concept [...]

Cynthia Costello, author of the IWPR report Increasing Opportunities for Low-Income Women and Student Parents in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math at Community Colleges, discusses findings from the report on South Dakota Public Radio. (interview [...]

" Ariane Hegewisch, a study director for the Institute for Women’s Policy Research with a particular eye on the pay gap says that in addition to the old boy’s club of the financial services industry, [...]

"C AG Steering Committee member Heidi Hartmann, of the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, notes, “Women are always the pioneers, going into new things that no one wants to do. Those are the jobs they [...]