Geri Stengel Childcare helps employees, employers, children, and society. “There’s a multiplier effect,” said Ariane Hegewisch, program director of Employment and Earnings at the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, and scholar-in-residence at American University. >>Read [...]

Abigail Hess And this gap isn't changing very quickly. According to the Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR), if the pay gap continues to narrow at the same pace it has over the past 50 years, women will [...]

Alia E. Dastagir, USA TODAY A survey of 253 employers affected by California’s paid family leave found over 90% reported either no effect or a positive effect on productivity, profitability, turnover and morale. Research also suggests [...]

Emma Kerr Coupled with rising tuition costs, enrolling as a single mother can be intimidating, but Lindsey Reichlin Cruse, study director at the Institute for Women's Policy Research, says these parent learners are more than capable [...]

Casey Quinlan The gender pay gap, which has been well-established by researchers over decades, continues to set back women’s economic progress, with women making only 80.5 centsfor every dollar earned by men in 2017, according to [...]

Michelle Chen The first-ever study to map the labor consequences of AI for women, published by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR), is a reminder of the intractable stubbornness of gender inequality, despite, or increasingly, because [...]