By Pearl Stewart For many single mothers who are attending college, the joyful moments of motherhood are mixed with the challenges of classes, research papers and final exams — along with jobs, child care and housework. A briefing paper released this week by the Institute [...]

By MARIATU SANTIAGO According to Elizabeth Weingarten and Zuzana Boehmová, most of the care our society depends on, paid or unpaid, is provided by women, “which means that they have less time for things like paid work, education, sleep, and leisure.” And since half of all homes [...]

By Casey Quinlan The number of single mothers enrolled in college more than doubled in just a little over a decade and was twice the rate of growth of overall undergraduate students, according to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR). Yet, the number of campuses with child [...]

By Kathleen Elkins Among companies in general, not just those in the S&P 500, the CEO wage gap actually favors men. The Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR) found that, for full-time chief executives, women's earnings were 79.5 percent of men's. Women CEOs' median weekly earnings were [...]

By Johnathan Berr "A substantial amount of research out there shows that women are more likely to pursue promotion opportunities and try to advance themselves in their careers when they have more female role models," said Jessica Milli, study director at the Institute for Women's [...]