By Thomas Friestad “According to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, if employed women in Pennsylvania were paid the same as comparable men, their poverty rate would be reduced by more than half (from 7.3 [...]

by Connor Everett Eight percent of single mothers in college graduate with an associate or bachelor’s degree within six years, according to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. This statistic is a stark contrast to the [...]

Arielle O'Shea The wage gap, which stood at 20 percent in 2017, is unlikely to close in the U.S. for another 40 years, according to an analysis by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. >>Read [...]

Lornet Turnbull Student parents represent about one-quarter of all U.S. undergraduates—about half of them single parents, according to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. And while their ranks have been growing, the number of two- and four-year [...]

By Caroline Kitchener The increasing number of women in the workplace stems from long-term economic trends, “which likely have very little to do with Trump’s policies,” said Heidi Hartmann, president and CEO of the Institute for [...]

By Jillian Berman Cain may not fit with the image we often conjure when we think of college students — the co-ed lounging in the quad and grabbing a few beers with friends. But these [...]