by Cory Stieg For women, having access to contraception at a young age may affect how much money they earn in their 30s and 40s, according to a new report from the Institute for Women’s [...]

By Patia Braithwaite It’s also important to know that financial abuse often occurs alongside other forms of domestic violence. In a small 2018 study from the Institute of Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) that surveyed 164 [...]

By Candice Frederick ... On top of that, the wage gap in 2008 meant that the average American woman who was getting paid above the table in a traditional full-time job earned $11,000 less than [...]

By @ElissaNadworny "When you're a parent, you're spending hours upon hours each day providing care to your kids," says Lindsey Reichlin Cruse, who studies student parents at the Institute for Women's Policy Research. "When you [...]

By Alyssa Newcomb It gets even more dire. While the Equal Pay Act was passed in 1963, the Institute for Women’s Policy Research forecasts that pay parity won’t be reached in the United States until 2059, nearly 100 [...]

By Caitlin Mullen, Bizwomen contributor A report from The Institute for Women’s Policy Research notes that although the African-American women’s workforce participation has historically been high — in 2017, that group’s labor force participation rate was 60.3 [...]