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 [...]

By Michelle Chen The evidence bears out women's choices; the long-term effects of abortion restrictions could be economically devastating for low income women. According to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, in the decades following Roe, abortion [...]

By Federiga Bindi and Mimosa Giamanco August 23 at 5:00 AM Throughout academia, including in political science, women haven’t achieved parity with men. As this series explores, implicit bias holds women back at every stage, from the [...]